I played Hooky this afternoon. I went to the Arboretum with a friend. We sketched. She officially is an artist. I officially needed a cover story for sitting in the shade on a bench and looking at the flowers and enjoying the fresh air and the birds ( Read more... )

There is a member of my extended family who currently is the focus of an intense medical drama. Lets call him "C". C lives 1,000 miles away from the Metroplex, has never married, is in his early 40s and is a bad alcoholic (I am sitting here thinking about that last part...is there such a thing as a "good" alcoholic?). Because of the gross ( Read more... )

Whine Warning ( Read more... )

Appearing today on my poem-of-the-day calendar ( Read more... )

I don't know why I am so terrified that Stupidity is going to be Contagious. It isn't. It frequently is irritating. It can be dangerous. It may result in hurting a fairly broad spectrum of bystanders. But, it is NOT contagious ( Read more... )

The first five people to respond to this post will get something made by me! My choice. For you.

This offer does have some restrictions and limitations:

• I make no guarantees that you will like what I make.
• What I create will be just for you.
• It'll be done this calendar year.
• You have no clue what it's going to be. It may be a story. It may be ( Read more... )

I have never read any vampire book, lite or otherwise. The gold standard in my world for scary are the flying monkeys in The Wizard of Oz. Anything beyond that, please count me out ( Read more... )

I have this life-long friend who needs a code name I suppose. She shows up on a regular basis in my life. She was here at Christmas, catching a cold from my 9-month-old grandchild. Her hostess gift was a jar a pears she canned. Her 88-year-old-and-still-golfing retired-military father has a pear tree that stands on the boundary between his back ( Read more... )

I haven't been able to keep up with the content of my e-mail in-box since the trip to California at the end of OCTOBER. I would get the various in-boxes knocked down to where I could reasonably have hope of getting the last 500 e-mails cleared out...and I would go off-line again for a period of days and it would be right back where things had ( Read more... )

I picked up an armload of photos I had printed last night. In the case of most of the prints, I had 5 prints made to put into albums (one for each of my kids, one for me) as well as one 5x7 print to frame. Then I had single prints made of things that have meaning to me or that I just liked, where the subject matter wasn't going to mean anything ( Read more... )