What is it about Opening Day for Major League Baseball that's so exciting? I'm a Cubs fan so it's clearly not "The Prospect of Winning." No, the best I can hope for this season is a better record than the White Sox, which doesn't look promising. Maybe it's the start of spring and impending days of summer; maybe it's the thought... Continue Reading →
Just What Are Today’s Kids Thinking, Anyway? And Should We Have Asked?
Two for one! Today MojoFiction meditates on the unexpected thought processes of this nation’s youth. And by youth we mean kids under the age of eight. And by kids under eight we mean our own kid (who's actually eight now but never mind). After eight the cuteness scale really drops off. We also mini-review "The Croods"... Continue Reading →
And Now #2: We Have No Shame
A while back, we here at MojoFiction promised some good old-fashioned shameless self-promotion. We don't want to disappoint. Now that our debut novel is finally available everywhere it's going to get for the moment, we thought we'd take some time to offer up two brief excerpts. You may recall that the story is about a... Continue Reading →
THE GRANDPARENT DEFLECTOR!
Here's a fun little craft-y kinda thing from some of the staff at MojoFiction (okay, it was our administrative assistant [1]). Are you the kind of person with a couple of cute little offspring that the grandparents are constantly nagging you to bring around for a visit more often? Sure, you'd like to, but something always seems... Continue Reading →
A SENSE OF PLACE
Home is where you hang your hat. Home is where the heart is. Home, home on the range (or something like that). If you’ve perused any of MojoFiction’s blog or website pages, you might have realized that we love nature, specifically the great state of Colorado. We were born there and carry with us fond... Continue Reading →
On Life’s Purpose…
“Look, I’m playing with the snow.” Back in 1984, David Vetter, known at the time as the bubble boy, died in the hospital sometime after a bone-marrow transplant his doctors hoped would finally give him the chance to leave his plastic hospital room and go out into the world. Unfortunately, the donor was not an... Continue Reading →
Ah, Children-ness (or, Darn You Doctor Who!)
Ah, kids. We here at MojoFiction like kids. We have one of our own. One of the great pleasures of parenting has been teaching our child to read. We started off with the basics, new versions of old stuff like the Dick and Jane stories ("See Spot eat all of Jane's ice cream while Dick points and laughs",... Continue Reading →