In one of my favorite children’s books about a frog and a toad, one of them asks the other if he doesn’t like to be scared, to have the shivers? Well, no, thank you, his friend doesn’t! But most of us do, if that means a delicious little chill running down the spine while knowing […]
Jul 28, 2014
Procrastinators, Enigmas, and Puzzling People
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For a long time, my storage building has needed painting. Particularly, the door needs painting. Painting is a warm weather job, mostly, because, honestly, who wants to paint with a cold north wind numbing hands and nose? No longer do I want to look at that storage room with the peeling paint and think, “I […]
Jul 27, 2014
Arkansas Loon Flies to Minnesota
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A story has a beginning, a middle, and an end. So does a gourd. A gourd starts with a seed, just as a story starts with the germ of an idea. The similarity between a gourd and a story is interesting. Among my stash of gourds, I searched until I found one whose bottom part resembled […]
Jul 26, 2014
A Perfect Summer Day
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An interesting discovery this morning: the musical note of the mourning dove I heard in the backyard is C. Wondering just what it was, I checked it out on the piano. Do all doves call in C? I don’t even want to find out! Speaking of birds, there were at least two tiny and featherless tragedies […]
Jul 25, 2014
A Writer’s Psalm
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A Writer’s Psalm Bless the Lord, O my writing. May all my plots and characters praise the Lord! The earth, O Lord, is rich in books; verily, it overflows with the written word. Large is the competition; great is the challenge to find a place in this plethora of volumes. Humbled, I put fingers to keyboard […]
Jul 24, 2014
Derechos and Unexpected Twists
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Five of us cozy critters were animatedly discussing the fine points of word meanings, sentence construction, and the best way of saying what we want to say, all in keeping with publishers’ and editors’ guidelines when it hit. I believe this is called an unexpected twist in the plot because no one at the table […]
