About Mary

Mary Pascual is a fantasy and YA author living in San Jose, CA with her husband, son, and cats. Read her latest posts, book updates, and writerly musings.

Summer, it turns me upside down

2026-08-22T19:35:01+00:00June 12, 2011|Weblogs|

There is nothing like sunshine to make you feel better.  Summer vacation started off with rain and quite a few emotional meltdowns. The kid's, not mine. (Although, I am sure [...]

The Myth of the Remote Cabin

2026-08-22T19:35:01+00:00June 8, 2011|Weblogs|

Recently I was talking with a musician friend about artist communities.  The conversation came up because he was telling me about how he occassionally feels sabotage efforts coming from other [...]

After all that spit happened…

2026-08-22T19:35:01+00:00May 16, 2011|Weblogs|

...he won 1st place for Kindergarteners at the Science Fair.  I think there were probably only three entries but still, he was excited. Perhaps a mad scientist will come out [...]

Worst mad scientist ever

2026-08-22T19:35:01+00:00May 12, 2011|Weblogs|

It turns out it's harder to grow bacteria than I expected.  The instructions on the bacteria growing "kit" (i.e. petri dishes, dry agar, and a one page instruction sheet) said [...]

Drowning… in spit

2026-08-22T19:35:01+00:00May 9, 2011|Weblogs|

So I've got to apologize because after I made my big wah wah last week about "what should I write about?" *whine moan whine* I have had no time to [...]

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