Raise Your Hand If...

[gaeln9796]

...when you casually mention to your young teen daughter, or son, that

Simon Dumenco has an article in

about...

they exclaim, "OhMyGod we have so got to get that magazine, I get to read it first.'
Because that is what Lauren did.
And not because of Zac BUT because of Simon.

I'm doing such a good job with her.

 

On-the-other-hand
she just finished reading Jack London's "Sea-Wolf'.

In it there's a passage where Wolf Larsen, the Captain of the sealing vessel, the Ghost,
 yells to his men that if they don't do as he wants them to
he will see them all in
'kingdom come'

Lauren, not unreasonably, wanted to know where kingdom come was.
I told her that my feeling was -- being alive on this little blue ball is the kingdom that is
and that heaven is the kingdom to...come
hence...kingdom come. as in after leaving the current kingdom that is.
I know...I could be wrong but she went with it.
She said, 'oh' all thoughtful-like.

I asked her what she had thought.
She told me that she had thought that Kingdom Come was a place like, ya know,
Timbuktu.
So...yeah.

Anybody know where Timbuktu is?

And, I actually do have a little Brian_Justin story about ready to go to beta so...soon...ish.

Comments

[herefordroad.livejournal.com]

lauren is fantastic and you ARE doing an amazing job!

i have to go and take a look at the mag. tomorrow.

as for "kingdom come", i also thought it was like "timbuktu", just a far away place. i just looked it up, timbuktu is in mali, west africa. but your explanation made sense. i never gave it much thought, interesting post.

i'm looking forward to your b/j story!

jeannie

[gaeln.livejournal.com]

lauren is fantastic and you ARE doing an amazing job!
*blushes*

i have to go and take a look at the mag. tomorrow.
we looked yesterday, she made me drive around some...three different places and no can find, at Barnes&Noble, December's issue is still out and at Luckys, nothing at all where Details should be Whats-up-with-that?

as for "kingdom come", i also thought it was like "timbuktu", just a far away place. i just looked it up, timbuktu is in mali, west africa. but your explanation made sense.
Okay, that's kind of cute.

i'm looking forward to your b/j story!
it's off to beta, shadownyc hopes to have it back to me after the weekend so...early next week. now on to Lindsay.

[herefordroad.livejournal.com]

i'm looking forward to b/j and it will be very interesting to see where you are taking lindsay!

jeannie