Random Quote
If you wrote something for which someone sent you a check, if you cashed the check and it didn’t bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented.
— Stephen KingMeta
Categories
- Baby
- Baby 2
- Crazy Me
- Dahl Marathon
- Dear Livia
- Dear Marshall
- Gratitude
- Interesting words
- Learning French
- Livia Says
- Local Flora and Fauna
- Marple Marathon
- Marshall Says
- Memories
- Misheard lyrics
- Music
- My Favorite Things
- Mysteries
- Out and about
- Pandemic Days
- Puzzles
- Quotes
- Reading
- Recipes
- Rhymes
- Sunday Stories
- The Weekly Poirot
- Top 100 Children's Books
- Uncategorized
- Vonnegut Marathon
- Writing
Tags
- Baby
- bad
- birds
- books
- bugs
- cats
- childhood
- Christmas
- drink
- Fall
- family
- flowers
- food
- friends
- GLP
- holidays
- house
- images
- library
- limericks
- milestones
- money
- movies
- Music
- past
- people
- photos
- piano
- politics
- quotes
- school
- shopping
- SITY
- snow
- spring
- Time
- trees
- vacation
- violets
- walking
- weather
- wedding
- woods
- work
- yesterday
Archives
Category Archives: Uncategorized
I Should Know Better
I am old enough to know by now that if I hide something in an unusual spot and say to myself “Don’t forget that you put this here” it means I absolutely will forget and shouldn’t put it there. But … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
2 Comments
Things Done and Things Yet to Do
I’m thrilled to be able to say that I’ve already gotten some of my Christmas tasks done. Shutterfly offered me free holiday address labels a couple of weeks ago, so I ordered them and they arrived last week. Yesterday I … Continue reading
Lessons Learned
I learned a lot from working on my nature photo album. I wanted to apply those lessons to my current project, so I put them into a handy list. Now I’m going to post the list here, where I can … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment
Thinking
I don’t think I’m going to win NaNoWriMo this year. I’m not really “in it to win it.” I’m in it to write a novel, not just 50,000 words, but as many words as it takes. The 30-day time frame … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
1 Comment
Oh, Murphy, You Sly Dog
We had another power outage this afternoon. As the minutes turned into hours I was starting to worry about dinner, because I wouldn’t be able to cook without any electricity. So I called the hubby to ask him to bring … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment
Before November
I’m giving some thought to joining NaNoWriMo this year. It’s the first year since Marshall was born that I feel like I could possibly have time. I certainly feel the itch to write! I’m not sure I want to follow … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
1 Comment
Strong Perfume
I have finally figured out why deodorants are so strongly perfumed. It’s for those days when you’re in a hurry, and you’re just about to run out of the house, and you wonder if you remembered to put on your … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
1 Comment
Already Great
I always think it’s funny when people wish they had been born into an earlier stage of civilization. Me, I’m thrilled to be alive in this modern age and in a modern country. I survived childhood unscathed by disease. I’m … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment