Meandering Monday about Heads in the Sand and Other Places

I’ve talked a lot about how lucky I am – that I lead a charmed life. It isn’t that bad things don’t happen to me, but even when they do, I seem to luck my way into a better situation. A friend has taken to nicknaming me Domino, because things just seem to fall into … Continue reading →

Meandering Monday about a Disastrous Frame of Mind

Being stuck in during shelter in place rules and self-quarantining, we’ve been watching a lot more television. One of the things that my SIGNIFICANT ONE and I noticed was how many end of the world movies seemed to be playing. Some featured pandemics that were far worse than the news that’s been pushed about Covid-19, … Continue reading →

Meandering Monday about Dreaming of Greener Grass

Quarantine. I wonder how many writers nowadays find their stories set in prison, or during some great cataclysm that makes people hole up in their basements? Do you? (If you’re just consuming content instead, try to stay away from networks that have decided now is the time to show plague marathons, or shows like A … Continue reading →

Meandering Monday about Losing It

“Don’t it always seem to go, that you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone?” – Joni Mitchell (Yes, I know this isn’t what Joni was talking about – I am misappropriating her words for my own sad purposes. You shouldn’t pick on your elders…) My sense of smell became almost non-existent maybe fifteen … Continue reading →

Meandering Monday about the Reality of Perception

Are you a glass half full (optimist), or a glass half empty (pessimist)person? Or as George Carlin used to say, “The glass is too big” (complainer?) kind of person? Or maybe you’re a “The glass is half full of hemlock” one (a realist, perhaps?)? So much of life is ruled by how you choose to … Continue reading →

Writing Wednesday: Dealing with Disappointment

Last week’s goals: 3 blog posts done as usual. Stories cycled to market in a timely manner (“Date Night” is back out there – running out of places to send it; it may become my February release.) TOTAL FAIL on commenting on others’ blogs – a big fat ZERO. If I’m going to be serious … Continue reading →

Meandering Monday about Sausage

I love sausage. There’s a saying about not wanting to see how the sausage is made – it’s of course not always about SAUSAGE – just an analogy about how there are some (MANY, actually) things that it’s better that you NEVER know the details of. When a child wants to know about chicken nuggets, … Continue reading →

Meandering Monday about How Hot They Say It Is

We’ve been under an EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING in North Texas. How hot is it? Not very. I remember our 1980 summer – 42 triple-digit days-in-a-row from late June (when there were two consecutive 113-degree days) through early August. I have memories of walking the streets for a couple of hours in the afternoon during that … Continue reading →

Fortitude Friday: Who Told You That Life Is Fair?

So now the NEWS is on a suicide watch (they always seem to find some poor old horse and beat it to death, don’t they? Get a hold of one sorry bone and keep worrying it until they need something else to try to get people worked up about, because getting people in a panic … Continue reading →

Meandering Monday about Hi-Ho, The Derry-O

It used to be that traditional fairytales were rather vicious (especially when told by those carefree Brothers Grimm) – through giants and wolves and other things eating people, and heads coming off people’s shoulders, or being poisoned or cursed by witches and the like, children were taught that the world could be a dark and … Continue reading →