I have been slacking in the book department for a few weeks now. I guess I have a form of writer’s block. The odd thing is the block is not one of words. I have story ideas floating around in the noggin. It is more a block about the physical activity. I cannot seem to […]
It is amazing how much of our youth sticks with us, even if we try to shed it. Personally I think this is a good thing. We all have those things that we fondly remember from days past; things that when they resurface will at the very least cause a spontaneous smile. Movies we grew up on, books we […]
I am not a fan of journalism. I don’t read newspapers, don’t watch the news, and as a general rule think magazines are a complete waste of paper. At least with fiction you KNOW it is fiction. That said this week’s 100 word challenge is more of a challenge than usual. But me being me I had […]
I missed last weeks 100 word challenge, which I guess was a bit controversial! I am trying to get back on the ball this week. I went and wrote a little piece that is no work of art, but I enjoyed. Only to find that I did not have the prompt quite right. But I […]
Being the nomadic soul I am, I have had a fair variety of living arrangements. I grew up in a townhouse style condominium, and lived there until I went to college. From that point on things go a little more … varied. In some cases maybe even creative. Throughout college I usually tried to live in singles […]
I am not one for astrology. I believe in the interconnectedness of all things, but I don’t believe anyone can predict anything from the positions of stars in the sky. Especially anything about human nature. On the other hand, I am completely dichotomous by nature. Which is ironic since the astrologers label me Gemini. What does this have to do with my title? […]
I am not sure exactly when it happened, but I have officially shifted from those who make fun of the "In MY day … " folks to officially becoming one. I have a degree in physics. I used to do advanced calculus in my head. Granted I could not add and subtract, but I could […]
My sister and I have been on many adventures together. Me being the oddest of creatures, a technophobic techno-geek who prefers natural to man-made, many of those adventures involved trekking through beasty ridden forests with a full pack and a canoe on our backs, or maybe something even scarier like painting a bedroom. But there […]
In the shadows of memory do we truly ever learn as humans? A tragedy happens and we hide it behind the rhetoric of power seekers. We get enmeshed in the emotions of the flag wavers; the holier than thous; the haters and the fearful. And the lessons to be learned get totally obscured in the resultant […]
One of the many duties my mother has taken upon herself is proprietress of an apparently well know birdie restaurant in the area. While there are several such restaurants throughout our neighborhood, ours seems a popular one. No doubt it gets high reviews in bird periodicals such as the Daily Tweet. It has two major common areas, and a private suite for those […]
