1) By this time in the subtropics the mornings should be dry and starting to cool ( Read more... )

1) It is the rainy season, a true one after some years of drought, in the subtropics, and there are waterbirds in the stormwater retention pond, and there are clouds building overhead.
2) My ailing Blonde Dog is not doing well, but she feels well, and is still eating heartily.
3) I require comfort reading.
4) Because of 3), I am saving Tim Powers' ( Read more... )

I had hoped to post something of my own this evening -- you know, something piquant yet illuminating and just a bit wow. Unfortunately, my last three remaining brain cells must be devoted to finding a frame for a short story currently in revision, so ( Read more... )

I wish that I could push a button/ and talk in the past, not in the present tense--"Brilliant Mistake," Elvis Costello ( Read more... )

In honor of the Dog of the House and last evening's thunderstorm, a drabble:

The Great Dog chases the Fire-Lizards through the storm ( Read more... )

O woe, o weariness, o excess of color. ("O tempora, o mores," too. Which has nothing to do with the topic of my post, but I've been thinking of it anyway ( Read more... )

Am anxious today, but to go forward... one foot in front of the other, yes ( Read more... )

The Dog of the House does not as a rule like holidays. (Fewer opportunities for the hoi polloi to genuflect, adore, etc etc ( Read more... )

[SCENE: Interior, sunny-cool afternoon. laurawise, in front of the desktop, pops open a Diet Coke and stares at the monitor, sighing ( Read more... )

Yesterday was odd. Or rather, my experience of the day was odd: if one believes in an objective reality, the day might have been perfectly baseline normal. But for me ( Read more... )