Good morning and Happy Halloween! I sure do miss Halloween. I know it hasn’t gone anywhere. I mean the celebrations I can remember from my yout. My favorite costume was the Statue of Liberty. When I was seven, my mother made me a torch out of aluminum foil, red and yellow cellophane and a flashlight….
Month: October 2016
Foolish Notion
As promised, here’s part one of an original short story. **** East End, Glasgow – roughly ten years ago. The bell hanging above the door jingled with the arrival of the day’s first customer. It was already three in the afternoon and the only company Davina Weir had had that day were the dust bunnies…
Hubris, thy name is…Author
We hold life and death of our characters in our fingertips. We create whole worlds with the will of our imaginations? Within us lies the power to touch the soul? If we can do this, we can do anything….kind of. I woke Thursday morning without the Sword of Manuscript hanging over my head. For the…
I’ll Take Triggers for $500, Alex
This isn’t what I was planning to write about today. I planned to do a lovely, grateful post about how my goldfinches are back after many weeks of absence prompted by the bear damage to the bird feeder station that put it out of commission for such a long time. Okay, while I’m at it…
Friends With Dinner
This is a thank you note. I need to thank two very dear friends for dinner last night. “Why so formal,” you ask? Well, this wasn’t just any dinner. I didn’t merely walk down to the end of the block and up a couple of flights of stairs to sit down to our usual Sunday…
#amreading
I can attest that K. R. Brorman, S. A. Young and I are all voracious readers. When we can’t sit down with a physical book or an e-reader, K. R. and I are driving around in our cars, or have our earbuds in place listening to audio books. We’ll win S. A. over to this…
Haiku for Friday
Words on the pages. Hungry farmers in the field. Life’s cup overflows. Save
Falling
Autumn is a bittersweet time for many people, me included. Whether it’s the imprinting of childhood — summer is over, hot weather pastimes are put aside and it’s back to the work of life, or the memories of sweet autumns past that won’t be relived — I feel more than nostalgia. I feel a tender melancholy…
The PRB and What To Do About It
Good morning! It’s Monday and we all deserve a little musical interlude. Don’t you just love that song? I have a soft spot for several versions, especially Chet Baker’s, but my new fave is Leslie Odom Jr.’s* spin on this old standard. It popped into my head last evening while kicking at little piles of…
Retreat in Review
This was one of our more productive retreats, if not the most productive, and not only because we got to click the compile button and save the MS*. We discovered the joys of marking off/erasing To Dos off the whiteboard. We created a style guide, because one of us keeps forgetting *coughmecough*. Short term and…