Treggiari

Just finishing up the last bit of revision on my current manuscript. Yeah, I thought I was done even though I had a niggling suspicion that something wasn’t quite right. Then thankfully, a couple of people pointed this out to […]

I’ve picked back up on something I was working on a couple of years ago. It’s very personal, and it took about thirteen years of mucking around to even figure out how to tell the story. I needed to get […]

I’m a huge fan of the crow family. Well, Jays, not so much, having been attacked by a vigilant mother jay when I was young and only trying to return her baby to its nest. However I can, now being […]

Great article about this from the Guardian Book Blog by way of Jen Robinson’s Growing Bookworms Newsletter. Thanks Jen! I for one am often uncomfortable reading some of the oldies and goodies precisely for this reason, but I agree with […]

Yesterday was the perfect day to curl up in an armchair with my knitting close at hand (but not actually doing any, you understand) and watch one of my favorite movies for the hundredth time. It’s also one of my […]

Did I once say that the poison ivy plant is quite pretty with its glossy red daintily serrated leaves and graceful vines? Well I take it back. It is an awful insidious sprout and I have vowed to expunge it […]

As proof I offer up the following, found while I was looking for a piece of scratch paper to take on my walk. It’s whenever I’m reduced to scrawling ideas across my palm and up my forearm that the inspiration […]

The raspberries which ramble over the steep inclines along my walk are finally ripe. They are a curious hybrid with a slightly different leaf- less toothy than the one I’m familiar with- and before the berry appears, you get a […]

I have realized that a change in routine, a lapse in a certain amount of discipline results in flab. I’ve been sitting in front of my computer for 30 minutes, fiddling around, annoyed with myself because I have a window […]

This is an eastern newt in the juvenile eft stage. Pretty nifty, huh? These are what I sometimes find on my morning walks. Although they are cute and I would dearly like to bring one home and keep it in […]