[Many Felines / #1] Pretty Boy Marble Marble was originally an outdoor cat--actually a kitten--who lived in a cardboard box with his mom on my mother-in-law’s (referred to as MiL through the rest of this post) back deck. His mother and he were all over that backyard catching mice they used as gifts to show …
Hankering Tasks
Daily chores, projects, and other efforts are going as expected these days. I’m not making progress by leaps and bounds, but nothing is at a standstill either. At some moment each week, usually on Sundays for reasons I can’t fathom, I mentally go through a list of things I’d like to have different. They aren't …
Many Felines / #1
I’ve mentioned my cats several times in this blog but I really haven’t told you anything of interest about them. So I thought I’d do a series of posts about them. The idea is that I post a biography of sorts on Saturdays until I’ve written about all of them. § Miya the Merciless Miya …
Is Writing a Lonely Venture?
I read a blog post last week that discussed the isolation associated with the craft of writing. (I can’t remember which blog it was now. If you do, please forward the URL.) The supposition was most writers are introverts at some level. Sitting alone to write page after page isn’t the sort of activity that, …
Character Sketch: Amelia Geisler
The movement of getting up or down is laborious these days. She plants her thin haggard hands firming on the arms of her rocker and heaves herself up. She winces in pain for a moment, but with determination ambles towards the scratching sound at her backdoor. She grabs the knob and pulls revealing a pug …
A Scripted Maze 