OurFirstMarriage #103: Soccer “Mom”

I’ve read three of the Stephanie Meyers books - I thought they were fun too. I’m totally into the whole vampire/werewolf aspect of these books, even though some fantasy purists complain because Meyers doesn’t follow normal vampire conventions - the main family of vampires in this series isn’t burned by sunlight, etc.

Thanks for the suggestion about “On Writing.” I had a very similar experience with Stephen King. I read all of his early stuff in high school and loved it - and still have fond memories of his short stories. The last novel I really liked was The Stand. I barely made it through It, and pretty much gave up on him with Tommyknockers - it was a big, loooong, snooze. And I didn’t even attempt Gunslinger. But I do think it is really interesting when writers talk about writing… Jane Smiley has a book about the novel (she wrote it while she had writers block and couldn’t finish her own novel) that is pretty cool, and Michael Chabon has a recent book about writing that I have on my list.

The soccer “mom” sounds totally out of line to me. Unless my son is disrupting the game in some way, I’m usually happy to leave it to the coaches - although I’m more than willing to support the coach by making him sit out and/or correcting him if he is misbehaving.

It is completely ridiculous to have some parent jumping in to referee a bunch of 5 year olds - particularly to yell at anyone other than their own kid.

I do want to hear how tee-ball is - J says he’s sick of soccer and wants to play baseball!