Divot was a Norwich Terrier, the smallest of the working terriers. Eleven inches at the shoulder, she never even considered the possibility that she might not be the toughest dog on the block. Her biggest problem in her long life, was that people… Read More ›
Month: August 2016
WE’VE COME A LONG WAY SINCE THEN
I went looking in my files for a story — which I didn’t find. Maybe it’s on one of my backup drives. I’ll have to look. Meanwhile, I found this unfinished bit. I wrote it in 2006. Life is much better now. It is… Read More ›
ODDBALLS FOR THE END OF AUGUST
Cee’s Odd Ball Photo Challenge: 2016 Week 34 Cee’s on a well-deserved break, so these are oddballs for a couple of weeks. I’m beginning to lose my grip on “odd” as a photographic concept. I find myself intentionally taking odd… Read More ›
NO VIRTUE IN VICE
I don’t have much in the way of thoughts about vice. I’m not even sure what it is any more. This morning, in one of those online chat things I do these days in lieu of actual conversations with customer… Read More ›
SHARING MY WORLD – AUGUST’S OVER!
SHARE YOUR WORLD – AUGUST 30, 2016 List 2 things you have to be happy about. It’s the end of the month and we aren’t completely out of money. It’s not (quite) as hot as it was last week. Or… Read More ›
FAIRIES – JUDY DYKSTRA-BROWN
This just tickled my fancies while confirming my long held belief that those little people are messing with me, hiding my stuff, and stealing my socks! Fairies When we go to bed, they sneak in and loll about on the chair cushions,… Read More ›
EXPERT ON MYSELF
I know a few things. Along the road of life, I’ve done a bit of reading and studying. Like many writers, I’m a generalist. I know about this, that, and the other thing. A good deal about some stuff, a… Read More ›
BLACK & WHITE SUNDAY – TOWERING
From Paula: Black & White Sunday Challenge this week has towering as a theme. Towering can be a building, a person, a mountain, or a tree. Or … “Towering” is relative. In our small town, a church spire is towering. On… Read More ›
IT TAKES A VILLAGE TO EDUCATE A CHILD by ELLIN CURLEY
In an effort to improve public education, many mayors, including New York City Mayor Di Blasio, have converted inner city schools into “community schools.” This is the first time I’ve heard about community schools and now I feel much better… Read More ›
THE FUTILITY OF WORRYING ABOUT WATER
The entire state of Massachusetts currently holds a status of extreme or severe drought. We’ve had less than 5 inches of rain here in central Massachusetts. Areas around Boston and northward into New Hampshire have had an inch less … around… Read More ›
SO YOU WANT TO BE A WRITER – PART III – MARTHA KENNEDY
Is today Saturday? No, it’s Sunday. This should have appeared yesterday. Right here. Except — I thought yesterday was still Friday, but woke up very early this morning with the distinct feeling of having missed a deadline. In more than… Read More ›
WORDS OF A WELL-KNOWN AMERICAN
Next month a movie about this American will be released. Is he a patriot or a traitor? A villain or a hero? Do you feel the same way about him now as you did two years ago? How do your… Read More ›
MISTAKE … OR NOT
That first marriage was a mistake. It had to have been because it didn’t go the distance. Maybe it wasn’t a mistake. Maybe it was the right thing when it happened, at that time. Later, when we were older and had… Read More ›
FILM NOIR OVERLOAD – GARRY ARMSTRONG
Originally posted on SERENDIPITY: SEEKING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH:
Dark, rain-glistened streets. Ominous shadows hover in trash littered alleyways. Cats screech in the distance. Gunshots ring out and a body slumps into the gutter. The world of film noir. As…
FRAMED – GARRY ARMSTRONG
PHOTO CHALLENGE: FRAME Using parts of the landscape to frame the picture has always come naturally to me. Maybe it’s all those years of television videotape — and so many John Ford movies — but I automatically look for ways… Read More ›
NATURAL FRAMES AND PERSPECTIVE
FRAME | THE WEEKLY WORDPRESS PHOTO CHALLENGE I learned to take pictures by copying other photographers work, especially the landscapes of Martha’s Vineyard by Alfred Eisenstadt. One of the first things I noticed is that he invariably had something in… Read More ›
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