I'm not handling Grandma's death very well. About the time I think the waterworks are done and that I can think of her without needing a tissue, I picture her at the nursing home, or worse, at the funeral, and cry. When I see her at the nursing home,...

Without a doubt I met Halloween most unenthusiastically. I hadn't much gumption when the frightful month of October started, what with a couple of self-grown mini-pumpkins, one torn-to-shreds plastic rat and a single light-up pumpkin thrown outside for...

It's... drum roll, please.... National Novel Writing Month! I took part in this one year thanks to a friend and did pretty well, word count wise, anyway. If one can look at word count only and not being published as being successful, of course. It's...

I'm not a violent person but I had a very descriptively violent vision of Karma and Bad Luck sitting out on my front porch, having tea, night before last. Together they sat, heavily bundled against the mid-day October chill. Dressed all in black, with...

Dropping a note to let you know I won't be writing for a few days. My grandmother died unexpectedly Sunday. Also, I've the flu. (Of which we're hoping is not H1N1 after being exposed to an individual, unknowingly, with it.) Take care! Be good. Be...