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A Play on Birds 21 Aug 2013 | 07:20 am
So I think I am spending too much time in the garden as I’ve started personifying birds. It all started with a couple of cute starlings. Three or four of them decided to take a bath in our fountain. T...
Tuesdays with Paula Deen 14 Aug 2013 | 05:29 am
Tuesday Mornings is one of my guilty pleasures. There is something about getting a bargain there that gives me a jolt. I always manage to leave the store with something I must have for the house for l...
Sights and Sounds of Summer 2013 11 Aug 2013 | 04:22 am
The Sights Summer means time in the garden. I was cleaning out our fountain today–I mean our gigantic bird bath–when I had a close encounter with a hummingbird. After scrubbing out all the green gunk...
Candy Crush Sugar Coma 23 Jul 2013 | 11:45 pm
I’m done. I’m done wasting my time on this addictive game. I was at level 60, a mere 100 levels behind my daughter. I woke up this morning thinking about my new lives and my new level, and I thought R...
The Window 11 Jul 2013 | 11:39 am
Funny thing about how habits start. When we had dogs, our whippet “Niko” waited for us to come home by perching on the couch in our living room. Facing the street, he waited and barked until we got ho...
Signs of the Times 26 Jun 2013 | 08:55 am
Or signs of the Thames (that big river in London) I just love the British way of looking at things. So I picked some of my faves to share with you. Clicking on the photo will enlarge most of them. T...
Loved London 14 Jun 2013 | 05:22 am
After a long hiatus, I recently visited England with my daughter and niece. We were very fortunate to experience nine days of sunshine. In fact, everyone we met there could not stop talking about the...
The Heroine’s Journey 30 May 2013 | 09:47 am
In one of my writing classes this semester, we discussed character development. The instructor brought in a stack of books that she thought might be helpful. One of those books was “The Heroine’s Jour...
Happy Hour 14 May 2013 | 08:30 pm
I’m just finishing up a creative writing class at a local junior college. I thought I’d share some of the writing I did in the class. This first piece is flash fiction. Basically it is a short short s...
Just Beet It, Beet It 2 May 2013 | 03:22 am
Thanks to Michael Jackson, I have the title for today’s blog. I’m a newbie gardener and when a vegetable grows in my garden, it is a small miracle. When a vegetable flourishes, I am in awe. In the wei...
