About Mary Pascual | Award-Winning Author of Fantasy & YA Fiction

Self-fulfilling prophesies

Mary2026-08-22T19:35:22+00:00September 10, 2010|Weblogs|

Today I signed up to be a volunteer library assistant. It kind of cracks me up because of this quote: Juno (V.O.) "Jocks like him always want freaky girls. Girls [...]

When Fall shortcircuits the brain (I blame school)

Mary2026-08-22T19:35:22+00:00September 7, 2010|Games and Improv, Weblogs|

Dear Weather, I am entirely frustrated with you. I've never met anyone so fickle. First, you ran cold all summer and I've got to be honest, weather, sometimes when a [...]

Organizing for help

Mary2026-08-22T19:35:22+00:00September 1, 2010|Weblogs|

I don't usually do this but we could sure use the help. Our local elementary school burned down this summer. It was a purposeful act of arson that took out [...]

Bad Mom Move #1,346

Mary2026-08-22T19:35:22+00:00August 30, 2010|Bad Mommy, Weblogs|

So apparently I sent my child to school with a moldy sandwich. Which I find ironic considering that whole other incident involving bread. I was going to pack a lunchables [...]

Mary2026-08-22T19:35:22+00:00August 24, 2010|BlogHer, Weblogs|

It is too hot. That is all. Here are BlogHer 10 pictures in the lieu. I'm not listing who anybody is, you have to guess. That's part of the game. [...]

Firstly, we will learn grammar

Mary2026-08-22T19:35:22+00:00August 16, 2010|SPD, Weblogs|

Today was Chance's first day of kindergarten!! Can you hear the elation? I'm pretty psyched, he's pretty psyched. I'm pretty sure there will be no tears (unless Keen loses it, [...]

Middling tidbits

Mary2026-08-22T19:35:22+00:00August 11, 2010|BlogHer, Weblogs|

Today is the five year anniversary of this blog. I almost missed it! Because I'm not very good at things like dates. Blogging is often a learning curve that... doesn't [...]

Mary2026-08-22T19:35:22+00:00August 10, 2010|Weblogs|

My Mamacita gave me my first set of pearls. She also gave me my first clutch purse, when I was too young and tomboyish to know what to do with [...]

The Art of Making Jam

Mary2026-08-22T19:35:22+00:00July 30, 2010|Cooking for Slackers, Crap I DIY'd the heck out of, Weblogs|

First off, all those recipes/instructions for jam try to scare you. They're all, follow these instructions PRECISELY! Use EXACT measurements! Do NOT deviate whatsoever from this recipe! Or else your [...]

Getting crotchety was not my intention

Mary2026-08-22T19:35:22+00:00July 27, 2010|Weblogs|

My computer has this power saving setting that dims the screen display when it's running on battery power. Very earth friendly (you know, in this non-recyclable machine that will be [...]