Well, I met an old man dying on a train...

No more destination, no more pain. 

And he said, "One thing, before I graduate.

Never let your fear decide your pain."

----

It's been pretty crazy around here these past few weeks. We came home from Florida yesterday only to have Christie and my mom leave for California today to visit my aunt with our sister-in-law. 

I've been settling back into the routines I created before I left for Florida. That's quite an accomplishment for me, because I've never made a routine and kept up to it. I am an early bird, so I'm usually outside practicing archery by 7:30 or so. I love this part of my routine. There aren't any bugs outside at this time of day; dragonflies are flying all around me, the woods surround me, there's this peaceful quiet, and since it's normally only me and my parents up, no one is calling me back inside for something. 

    

     I've been reading a story I did last November, for NaNoWriMo. I haven't touched it since, and I don't think I finished it, either. I'm sitting there either making interested faces since I know what's going to happen next but I don't know how, or making disgusted faces when I survey my horrible writing. Literally, as I sit there reading, I'm making an effort not to fix the entire thing. I've decided to just leave it and look at it when I'm older to decide if I really want to keep going. It's that bad. Sometimes it looks like a journal. Most of the time, it looks like the main character is talking to herself.

     And of course, lots of music...hence the AWOLnation lyrics above. I like bits of music that can apply to myself, music that can boost my energy or something...

 Sometimes my random edits will remind me of one of my favorite songs.

"And who do you think you are? 

Going 'round, leaving scars.

Collecting your jar of hearts..."

My latest lock screen is this. I can't listen to 'Learn to be Lonely' without feeling like crying, then that reminds me of 'War Horse' when Captain Nicholls dies...then I think of sad songs...then I think of the Doctor and Rose...

"I have died every day waiting for you

Darling, don't be afraid I have loved you

For a thousand years

And I will love you for a thousand more..."

And now I end...

"No wonder your heart feels it's flying
Your head feels it's spinning
Each happy ending's a brand new beginning
Let yourself be enchanted, you just might break through

To ever ever after
Forever could even start today
Ever ever after
Maybe it's just one wish away
Your ever ever after..."

This has been a random post by Molly.

Dragonwitch Blog Tour: SHADOW HAND sneak peek!

 

Anne Elisabeth Stengl is the author of the award-winning Tales of Goldstone Wood series, adventure fantasies told in the classic Fairy Tale stule. She makes her home in Raleigh, North Caroline, where she lives with her husband, Rohan, a passel of cats, and on long-suffering dog. When she's not writing, she enjoys Shakespeare, opera, and tea, and studies piano, painting, and pastry baking. She studied illustration at Grace College and English literature at Campbell University.

I am very pleased to be part in the Dragonwitch blog tour! Anne Elisabeth has so kindly given me a sneak peek of Shadowhand, and stick around for the giveaway at the end!!

 This is her fifth book in the series. I absolutely cannot wait to get my hands on this book with a nice cup of coffee and a blanket to go with it, and maybe it will rain and I'll light a candle...this is sounding like the perfect book day to me!

And now....for the Shadowhand sneak peek!

Psst...ain't the cover gorgeous??

Shadow Hand

By Anne Elisabeth Stengl

It must be a dream or an illusion brought on by the magic intoxication of Nidawi's presence. It must be, for how else could he see, even through dark and rain, that form in white rags, her hair falling free in red-gold tatters below her shoulders, her icy eyes fixed upon him in unbelief. His bride: his beautiful, broken, terrible bride.

"Daylily!" he cried, and took three strides. But he had not taken a fourth when, with a roar that shook the orchard, Lioness sprang over his head and charged; charged in streaking, snarling fury right at that vision which was no vision, but which breathed and moved and looked right at him.

"No!" Foxbrush shouted, though he did not know he shouted. Like one in a dream, he could not run, could not make his limbs move, straining against the pull of resisting time. Seconds, half-seconds, were hours too long, for the white lion bounded with the speed of lightning.

Daylily shook herself free of her shock at seeing Foxbrush in this of all places and focused her gaze fiercely on that which approached. It was not a wolf. It was not! It was a Faerie beast, an invader, and her enemy.

Our enemy!

She snatched the Bronze from around her neck and crouched, prepared for battle.

Save our land!

The Lioness leapt, and Daylily, though her arm was none too strong, would have driven her sharp stone up and into her flesh as she descended, had the great cat not turned in the air at the last and landed to one side. Lioness lashed out, claws flashing, but caught Daylily's gown and not Daylily herself. The lion’s second swing struck Daylily in the side, sending her crashing to the ground and her Bronze stone spinning through the air.

Daylily bared her teeth and reached for the stone, but Lioness pressed her to the dirt with an enormous, crushing paw. Claws tore into Daylily's shoulder and she screamed. Her voice pierced the rain and the thunder and Foxbrush's heart, and he screamed as well and threw himself at the lion.

But just as he did so, a savage yell rang out, and a wild man in skins, his hair pulled back in a long braid, fell from the branches of the fig tree above and landed square upon Lioness's broad back. With strength greater than his size indicated, he unbalanced her, pulling her off Daylily so that both of them rolled across the ground. Foxbrush narrowly avoided losing his face to Lioness's flailing claws, and found himself standing clear, staring down at Daylily's flattened form.

Nidawi caught Foxbrush's arm and pointed at Daylily, screaming, "Kill it! Kill it, my king!"

Yes. You may tell me how awesome that was. You may say how you hate you have to wait for the book to come out. 

Because those are my exact thoughts.

Okay, giveaway time! The giveaway goes through the 16th, and Anne Elisabeth will announce the winner on the 16th.

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And now, if you're interested in following the rest of the tour, here are links!! Starting from Day One of the tour, and continuing on. :)

 

Tour Schedule

July 14 - Day 1

Rebecca's Book Blog - Interview

Jennette Mbewe - Sneak Peek

Bluerose's Heart - Top Tens List

The Wordsmith's Shelf - Sneak Peek

The Wonderings of One Person - Guest Post

Seasons of Humility - Interview

Worthy 2 Read - Guest Post

The Endless Road - Interview

Tea and Bree - Interview/Sneak Peek

JoJo's Corner - Interview

July 15 - Day 2

Letters to the Cosmos - Guest Post

The Writer of Dream Things - Character Interview

The Sassy Sister - Sneak Peek

Makai Queen - Interview

JoJo's Corner - Sneak Peek

Crafty Booksheeps - Interview

Young Adult Books - Sneak Peek

Darling Diaries - Interview

Blooming with Books - Interview/Sneak Peek

July 16 - Day 3

The Writer's Window - Character Interview

Penning Praises - Guest Post

Crimilia - Interview

Rachel Herriman – Guest Post

Rina's Reading – Top Tens List

JoJo's Corner - Guest Post

Living On Literary Lane - Interview

Onto Her Bookshelf - Interview

An Ink-Made Maiden - Interview

And then, Day 17! 

The winner of the giveaway announcement! 

A closing post to the tour. :) It will be on Anne Elisabeth's blog. 

Next blogger up on the tour is Makai Queen's interview! Have fun!

-Molly

iPod Life and the Beach

 We made cookies for Memorial Day in Florida. Finally, some chewy ones! They didn't last very long.

 Rhiannon showed me a new editing app. I fell instantly in love.

 I've been to the Naval Aviation Museum billions of times and I'm still not sick of it. We got to show Rhiannon around. :)

 She deliberately avoided the camera for a while then decided to look at it. For some really weird reason, she looks like Samwise Gamgee in this picture...to me, anyhow...eh?

 Flowers at the beach house!

 Some of the first hydrangeas at our house. (a few of us came home early for piano reasons.)

But most of all, boating, sand, and the sea. We had so much fun with the ENTIRE family down, plus some. David came down as a total surprise and shock to everyone. I REALLY wish I could share the video I got of my mom's shock (she screamed. Hilarious. :p)
     Our uncle and aunt came down. It's a tradition. :) And lately we've been hanging out with Stephanie's brother Dylan more often, and he came down for Memorial Day. We (Sam, Dylan, Emily, and I) got boards and slid down sand dunes while he was here, and that was a lot of fun. Memorial Day weekend and Labor Day weekend are my most favorite holidays because we have all our family over. Labor Day can't come soon enough! :)

Doctor Who was also exciting to watch, as I got to watch some episodes I hadn't seen of Season Seven. I got some scares in. Eep!

So, tally-ho, summer! Many adventures await us!

A post of pictures!!

Today, I decided to post...I'm not very good at this, so I decided to pictures! I haven't posted pictures in like, a REALLY long time. Or just posted, for that matter! (All pictures are NOT edited)

And so I grabbed a camera and took pictures of things I thought looked cool.

Such a nice day. I love spring. Blue skies with wispy clouds that hardly block the sun. :-)

Did I mention that I love spring?

And I end with nothing better than Converses. Oh yes.
Ah, but that isn't even the best part! No, no, the best part is THE BEST part. So for that series I've been reading, The Tales of Goldstone Wood, (which, btw, I read the fourth book. It's my favorite so far!) my dearest friend, Clara, put one of the poems into GORGEOUS SONG. Yes. She did. And I have listened to it, what? A dozen times? and counting.
Guys, go listen to it. Click on the link and do it. It is SO BEAUTIFUL. And I hear she might do another one. (either that or be extremely annoyed by my consistent stream of texts demanding she do another one. Which she got. :P)
ISN'T IT AMAZING???? Tell me what you thought. NOW, STOP READING and GO LISTEN.

Cheerio!
Molly

DID YOU LISTEN TO IT YET??

Day 10. TEN!! ;)

Wahoo! I had forgotten how far I was in the 30 Day Challenge! YAY!!
So Day 10 is.......(drumroll, please!)
A Photo of You Taken Over 10 Years Ago.
Well, I only have one or two pictures of me that I can put on here...because I'm too lazy to go dig up some more photos.

And that's all the pictures I bothered to take. :)

Livin' the Awesome Life

Well, a few days ago, my mom bought us kayaks!! Wahoo!! Four of us, as you probably know, are here long enough to use them, whereas anyone else is usually back in Louisiana. So my mom bought us four kayaks! I was excited. I get to have a kayak and it's mine!
I'm calling mine............The Shark! (dramatic music)
*sigh* yes. It's yellow. Sharks are not. Whatever. It's MY kayak!! ;)
Well, see, my kayak has a pointed.er.'nose'. and so do sharks. it has gill-looking things, and ALL sharks have gills! uuuuuuuuuunless they're dead, killed by people. Sharks are edible, right? which means you have to skin the shark, and THAT means that the gills get taken away.

Also....guess who's in town!! Yup! Michelle and Patrick! and David! (David doesn't get to come as often as Michelle, and Shelly (that's what we call her) doesn't come that often.)
But Michelle didn't JUST come with David and Patrick. She brought someone else. But he's not BORN yet. Yes, you read right! She's pregnant!!
I know a few of you already know, but certain people in a certain Georgia...do THEY know?
Welp, haf a goot day, eferybody!

*snicker*
Jet'aime,
Molly

A Photo I Took

This is Day 9, folks!
Hmm...folks...that sounds...old. Never mind.

Well, all of you know that I've taken a lot of photos...so I'll just do the ones I like a lot. Just one or two. Or three. I promise.
Uh oh. I promised. Prepare to be disappointed! I am known to make promises on my blog and then shatter the promises to pieces. I'm so terrible! Boo hoo hoo! *sniff* Why are you *sniff* reading this? Boo hoo hoo!

Ahem. Moving on.

 Yuck! I hate Justin Bieber!

 Yum yum. Aunt Molly, don't you want to try a paper plate?

 Aww! That's all I have to say. :)

 Oh, what did I tell you? *moan* I did FOUR pictures. Not one or two. Or three. I LIED!!!! Horrors mounted upon HORRORS!!!!!!!!
Well, I know a lot of y'all have seen this pictures on Instagram (one of my new favorite apps!), but some of y'all I know don't have Instagram and y'all check my blog, and plus these are my favorites. So I put it on anyhow.
Yup. That's my nature to be confusing. So if I confuse you, just think, 'It's Molly's blog. No WONDER it's confusing.'
Yeah. Well. Haf a good day.

Jet'aime,
MollY 

Pictures :)

 Okay, I finally got a good picture of Caroline! :)

Today was Dan's commissioning day, so here's Dan and Stephanie, all dressed up. ;)

Daddy's ceremony hat. They told me that he dressed up in a navy blue suit that was black. Don't ask.

Jet'aime!
The Sassy Sister
Molly