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Had some weird kind of Venus in retrograde (oh yes it is) sort of glitch with my website for a few days but it is now back up and running, HURRAY!!!- except for having replaced all the apostrophes in my […]

I’m feeling pretty good actually although as I remarked to a friend who is celebrating her 44th birthday next month, we are now old ‘young people’. When we turn 50, we will be young ‘old’ people. It’s the in-between stage […]

Ok, I was going to do a special 150th post but I have just realized that this is the 152nd. How did that happen? Anyway, a few of them have been very short and many more have been very silly […]

The Guardian in the UK recently ran an article asking nine successful writers their thoughts on the writing process. Here’s the address to see the article in full: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/mar/03/authors-on-writing Most of them said it was not a joyful experience. Perhaps […]

Do you think this is where the blahs come from? Anyway for once I’m not speaking of myself. Oh no! The temperature has risen, the last cataclysmic snowstorm they predicted fell woefully below the expectations of the doomsayers, the birds […]

I often feel disconnected. Spending your days hunched over a computer or a notebook will do that to you. Long walks with no one for company but my pre-verbal daughter will do that too. She is quite good about not […]

Apparently it takes at least three crows to successfully mob a hawk. ///////////////////////////////////////////

Although I’m going to mention Dylan Thomas, who enjoyed a pint for breakfast from what I understand, the ‘bottle’ mentioned in the title of this blog refers to the ‘body’ of the writer and of course is also a mild […]

The harder it snowses And the more it blowses The colder my noses And toeses Become ////////////////////////////////

Because it’s snowing again and I was all ready for spring and I’m feeling like putting my head under my pillow until I hear tree peepers peeping and robins trilling, and just can’t sum up the energy, I offer you […]