Okay, I typically avoid blogging the cute toddler comments, but this one has had me giggling all day.
My three-year-old son and I were having one of our rambling, inane, wonderful conversations today when the subject of Daddies came up.
“You can be a Daddy when you grow up,” I said.
C. inexplicably pulled up his shirt. “But Daddy has whiskers on his tummy,” he said. Then he looked perplexed. “How does he get the hair on his head to move to his tummy?”
How does one explain both puberty and receding hairlines to a three-year-old?
(P.S. My computer has yet to be resurrected. I called the technician today, who said, “Well, I’ve got it sitting here on my desk in about a thousand pieces.” Fear and loathing.)
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Is his hair salt and pepper and does he have a short pony tail?
Tummy Whiskers is a fun phrase, cute.
I am loving your book, I judge a good book by whether or not I think about the characters when I put the book down… I keep thinking about LYDIA tonight…
No, brownish with a bit of gray. No ponytail. Why?
So glad you’re enjoying the book. Isn’t Lydia a great character? She’s one of my favorite creations.
Well, Alan and Edward both have ponytails in your book, and when I write, I often paint people the way I would find them attractive, and so I just wondered if maybe your husband had a ponytail.
Also, in my book, about 20% of it are things that have actually happened to me - like one seen where Malachi, the killer in the story meets a girl at a restaurant that just comes and sits with him - once, when I was eating at Taco Bueno, this lady came and asked me, “Can I sit with you?”
At one time she was very attractive, but age, cheap lipstick, and fried orange hair had made her look hooker-esque. She still had really nice legs though - really nice.
I JUST USED A MALAPROPISM! Seen and Scene - one more to add to my list! UGH!!!!!
Alan has a ponytail? I need to reread my book. Alan is based, a bit, on Enviro-spouse. And yes, any little bit or piece of my life can be warped into my fiction–although it’s usually unrecognizable by the time I’m done.
You should visit Asheville some time–the independent book store is called Malaprop’s.
Well, it might not be Alan now that I think of it, but there are two guys with pony tails, it stood out to me because you don’t see too many guys in Texas with pony tails, and the characters descriptions were fairly close together.
I had a feelilng that Alan was based loosely on Enviro spouse given his occupation and all… now I wonder if there really is a Suzy Suzuki out there, she sounds like my type.