From ghoulies and ghosties And long-legged beasties And things that go bump in the night Good Lord, deliver us! – Traditional Scottish Prayer I’ve never met a ghoul and I have questions about long-legged beasties, but I can speak from… Read More ›
Month: October 2017
SHARING MY WORLD – THE HALLOWEEN EDITION
Share Your World – October 30, 2017 Where do you eat breakfast? Like so many others, with my laptop, my English muffin with some fruit spread or jam on it … and coffee. I almost never drop the jam into the… Read More ›
BOOOOOO !!! – FROM MY FAVORITE WESTERNS!
And there’s music on the original post! BOOOO! A Gallery of Ghouls Boo! It’s alive !!! Source: BOOOOOO !!! — Please direct comments to original post!
GHOULS DON’T DO TAKE OUT
No Halloween visitors expected here on our street. It’s dark and quiet with long shadows from tall trees. We used to run out of candy back in Boston. Here, we don’t buy candy. At all. We live so far from… Read More ›
IN HONOR OF HALLOWEEN – GARRY ARMSTRONG
A Halloween Special Photography by Garry Armstrong Poetry by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) A PSALM OF LIFE WHAT THE HEART OF THE YOUNG MAN SAID TO THE PSALMIST TELL me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but… Read More ›
NOT ESPECIALLY FLUFFY — UNLESS YOU COUNT THE DUST BUNNIES
I’m trying to think fluffy. It isn’t working. Last night, we had a storm. High winds. Rain. How fluffy can things be when the rain is coming down so hard it sounds like little rocks? We got the promised torrential… Read More ›
RERUNS AND REWRITES – BLOGGING WITH 6,000 ARCHIVED POSTS
I rerun and rewrite archived posts. I pretty much always do at least some editing for anything I post and in many of the older posts, I do enough rewriting to make it newer than older. I rewrite to make… Read More ›
MY TERRIBLE, HORRIBLE, NO GOOD, VERY BAD DAY – BY ELLIN CURLEY
It was the night of October 18, 1987. My husband, Larry, had been devolving into a state of paranoid rage for several weeks. He couldn’t enter the house at this point without punching something, like a wall. Or breaking something…. Read More ›
BRING BACK VAMPIRES TO TORONTO – FOREVER KNIGHT!
What with Halloween just around the corner, this seemed a good moment to revisit my all-time favorite vampire show, Forever Knight. I discovered Forever Knight when it was in reruns on the Sci Fi channel. It was showing around 2 in the morning…. Read More ›
SOUP AND SANDWICH – RICH PASCHALL
There were many stories about Harold, the great planner from the Midwest who retired to an orderly life in Florida. This was the first. Everyone who knew Harold would agree; he was an orderly man. Everything about his well-ordered existence… Read More ›
RAINY WEATHER PHOTOGRAPHY – GARRY ARMSTRONG
It was peak color in New England … or at least in our area of south central Massachusetts. Unfortunately, it was also raining, so long excursions to exotic parts of the valley were out of the question. Rain or not,… Read More ›