Posted in My Version of Events: A Daily Journal on August 28, 2007 | 5 Comments »
I. HATE. SCALES.
For the past few years they’ve told me nothing but bad news. Occasionally, they’ll give some small ray of hope - only to snatch it back on the next visit. They’re intrinsically evil.
Every once in a while I’ll try to reason with the scale. I’ll say things like -
Listen - here’s what I’ll do [...]
Posted in Not Just Another Fleeting Fancy on August 25, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I’ve just returned from a bruncheon attended by women from my church. So much fun ! Anyway, I was in charge of bringing the muffins. Really an exciting task for me, because I have the BEST muffin recipe thats been lurking around my family cookbooks for years. Very simple, very delicious - and because of that [...]
Posted in My Version of Events: A Daily Journal on August 25, 2007 | 6 Comments »
My husband has announced that he’s going camping -I am, obviously, filled with dread. I have this thing about being alone in the house. Mind you I’m not technically alone - my 7 year old is with me. But by alone I mean “without the comfort of an adult who knows how to shoot a [...]
Posted in Questionable on August 25, 2007 | 6 Comments »
So what’s the deal with flies? I mean - what’s their function exactly?
Just to give you some background - I hate flies. I know, I know - we all hate flies. But I really hate them. I may even take a small amount of sadistic pleaure in ridding them from the planet (nothing clinical -but [...]
Posted in A Cock & Bull Story: The Art of Writing Fiction on August 24, 2007 | 1 Comment »
This is a short story I wrote in late 2006. I entered into a writing contest that was recommended to me by a friend. The jist of it was that each contestant was to take the 1st line of a published work of fiction (a list of sentences was provided), and create a short mystery [...]
Posted in A Cock & Bull Story: The Art of Writing Fiction on August 24, 2007 | 3 Comments »
You will find here samplings of my short stories (mostly mystery fiction), my thoughts about writing, and inevitably, my struggles with it. I love to write - it’s theraputic, and on the whole, I encourage it. You can journal and write for your posterity, or you can write beautiful poetry, and bear your soul in prose. Whatever form [...]
Posted in Not Just Another Fleeting Fancy on August 23, 2007 | No Comments »
So I’m completely obsessed with DIY projects, and as I was Stumbling today, I came across this nifty little site that shows you 100 Things you can make yourself. I’m going to start with the gingerale.
Posted in Questionable on August 23, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Have you ever wondered how supermarkets decide what products should be displayed around the checkout counters to entice us into that one last impluse purchase?
There’s the staples: gum, hard candy, chips, gossip magazines. Those seem pretty straight forward to me. But the other day as I was standing in line, I took a closer look at some [...]
