I recently came to the sad conclusion that I must give up eating chocolate. In all its forms. Entirely. That’s a whole food group kicked out of my diet. Because I tended to overindulge, and it started making me sick. I won’t go into detail. Let me just say that the consequences of eating chocolate [...]
Jul 072010
I got the idea for this quilt months and months ago. I had all these smallish pieces of fabric, because I have a friend who likes to hang out in fabric stores. Being one of those people who is attracted to bright or shiny things, I invariably ended up buying a handful of [...]
Jul 052010
Okay, so I meant to write this review and get it up here on my blog a couple of weeks ago — it was supposed to follow the first review in somewhat shorter order, but you know how it is with the best laid plans and so on (you know you’ve heard the quote, modified [...]
Mar 152010
My preoccupation lately has been with making things rather than writing things, which isn’t entirely a bad thing, even though I’ve been thinking things that I could be writing about. But sometimes it’s just hard to put down the Sculpey, or the paintbrush; or I’ve already been sitting at the computer for what feels like [...]
Yeah. A lot has been written about writing. Whole books. Shelves of books in bookstores and libraries. How to write. When to write. Where to write. What to write. Who is writing. Writing is an art. It’s a science. It’s a hobby. It’s a living (breathing, teeth-gnashing monster). It’s a construction zone. For all the [...]
Jul 032009
I wanted the fireworks to go on forever — or at least for the rest of the night. It’s the way I feel every Fourth of July — never enough fireworks. But this year, 1976, I was in the Air Force, watching the display from a grassy knoll near the practice tee at Luke Air [...]
Apr 282009
After a serious rain delay — like all day yesterday — it looks like more of the same today. I’ve decided to borrow a post from another blog I started some time ago and will probably terminate. At least I can get it published and then unplug the computer. Lightning in the area and all [...]
Not long ago I re-read William Zinsser’s On Writing Well, a book that was required reading for the writing course I took through Long Ridge Writer’s Group. This time I read with a red pen in hand to underline key passages and fix in my brain the high points of the wealth of knowledge it [...]
Since I’m not going to be going back to work in a full time job soon after all, I need to make a schedule for my blog work. I think a Monday, Wednesday, Friday posting schedule is pretty reasonable, and I need the structure. Self-discipline is not one of my long suits. For now I’m [...]
Feb 272009
I have been writing for myself almost as long as I have been able to write. Sometimes I would let other people read what I wrote, but that’s not why I wrote. I wrote, and still write, because I don’t talk. Let me clarify a bit. I’ll use an example. I have basenjis. Basenjis are [...]