My dears, my brain is zapped from editing, and I’m not quite finished. (Soon. Very soon!) Editing should be a perfectly safe job, right? And guess what happened? I was bitten by the first tick of the season. It was one of the very tiny ones–a deer tick. I suspect it was brought inside …Read More

Last year my son and I ventured to St. Louis for our first Comic Con, and had a blast. As soon as we left, he was planning his own costume for this year’s event. We attended Wizard World Comic Con 2017 this past Saturday, and he was fully costumed as a character named Robin from …Read More

    In Sunday’s post I had a quote from Ray Bradbury. His work isn’t much in fashion right now, though so many of his stories and ideas have become imbedded in our culture. Bradbury let his imagination play, particularly in the possibilities of our collective future. But one of the things I like most …Read More

        If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder. –Ray Bradbury   How delightful it would be to always be able to see the world through the eyes of a child. Many artists come close to it, but it’s available to us all. Look at the …Read More

  Grasshoppers, falcons, and wine–Oh, my, and a Thriller nomination, too! I’ve always wanted to be brave enough to correct bad grammar on signage. This guy does it. The world needs more people like this wonderful pet detective. Color creation: who knew there were degrees of the color black, and that color creation was so …Read More

(I’m over at TKZ today, talking about making writing a choice. Here’s a post I did a while back about one of my favorite book-to-film projects.)       Novel to Film: Matheson’s A Stir of Echoes Saturday morning, P came home from breakfast at a local diner to find me standing about six feet …Read More

Monday started out gloomy and rainy, but late in the afternoon, the sun came out. That’s my favorite time of day to take photographs because the light changes so dramatically from one moment to the next, and I’m opportunistic when it comes to light because I’m not so knowledgable about the technical stuff. The dogs and I …Read More

    I love bulk discounts. That’s why, last December, when Ancestry.com had a sale on its basic DNA heritage kits, I bought several. Two went to my parents, and the other two came to Husband and me. I know it’s a little goofy, but here in the End Times, anything goes, yes? Only my mother’s …Read More

  When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.– Khalil …Read More

  Happy April Fool’s Day! 😺 Here’s a history of the dastardly day, along with a list of famous pranks.   The links go international this week: There’s a new fiction genre on the shelves called Cli Fi. Here’s what it is. Bestie/writer J.T. Ellison turned me onto the story of this marvelous restoration project: Château …Read More