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Daily prompt 11/11/25 I had the opportunity to attend the NY Metropolitan Opera for a production of Lulu by Alban Berg. It was awesome, the orchestra, singers, staging… all of it. Lulu is a tragedy that surpasses most others. Up from the sewers into the high-foulant world, then c
This is a blog I started writing two years ago. I have been holding off until now. The first photos from our newest Observatory are now here. Vera C. Rubin is one of my heroes – or should I say Her-oes. She was a scientist back in the day when women in a science lab […]
General Blog · Monthly Blog · Writing
If everything is unprecedented, nothing is.
General Blog · Note to Self · Rant · Writing
What are you good at, you have asked me today… I’m quite confident that I am good, if not excellent, at many things. People tell me that, and I know they are not just blowing smoke up my ass. Everyone has those few things at which they excel, even if that is just the perfection [
This month has been marred with death. My Betta fish died. Not a big deal, they do that a lot, and Flame must have been my 15th or so wet pet. I’ve even found another very pretty Betta to keep the tank lively. However, my beloved African Gray parrot was right on his fins. This […
General Blog · Spec · Updates
Hi, guess what? My next post here will give you the links to book 2 – The Domes. It is about to be released upon the multiverse. Yes, It is true. I’ll be doing some major upgrading of site pages by the end of the week. Spec is pleased that the work finally finished. She is also d
General Blog · Spec · Updates · Writing
The layout is all done. The page numbers worked on the third try, can you believe that? I can’t. Page numbers last time was nearly a three night project. Now, did I have to change my header because of that… but it turned out much better anyways. Sometimes limitations are a good t
General Blog · Spec · Updates
Would you like to see me go to the mountains for a week next month? This trip would be used to get a good start on book three, while book two is in final editing. If so, please join my Patreon page so you can have more updates on each books’ progress. Also, cute photos […]
Note: When I wrote this, I was very raw. I was right at the end of a panic attack when my brain was still not functioning. If you have ever had one, you know what I mean. It takes hours to get things ‘right’ again. The temptation to rewrite and clean it up is unbearable, […]
General Blog · Spec · Updates · Writing
Why are we so very concerned with word count? Really, it is because no one wants to read War and Peace. This isn’t a rant against Tolstoy. I really liked Anna Karenina. I gave W&P a good go at it for about 10 years. I finally gave up after it had been moved to the […]
It’s raining again. The puppy whines from the other side of the gate that keeps his muddy feet in the kitchen. It doesn’t matter right now, even though I wipe his feet every time we come inside from attempted potties in the rain, there is mud everywhere. I have mopped two, someti
I never know what to expect in life with the exception that it is usually not what I dreamt of, or hoped for. I may be a bit pessimistic or jaded; that is what others say. It is more that I am just a realist for the most part. No one’s life goes as they […]
Dreams · General Blog · Vignettes
First snow of the season, it’s going to be big. The weather forecast said so, but that’s only modern say so. On the porch you look out to the northwest, far off, the wall is coming. Too far yet, but you can easily see the puffy billowing clouds. The edge of the wall, and it […]
I hear the painfully out-of-tune siren of the ice-cream truck as it wanders into the neighborhood. A sound all on to itself. As it nears, I run out to the street. Novelty ice-cream, my heart skips for joy. What do I want is the question asked; a dreamsicle! It is all I have ever
This was written as a prompt from a real magazine article. I didn’t bother reading the article, I knew what it said. Although this is taken from the point of a country/city view, it is the same with all of our communities: black, white, brown, yellow, political, religious, and al
I feel like right now is the time with all the time in the world. I should be able to settle down and work on my book. But there are unemployment forms, the pile of rebate forms I haven’t filled out yet, and SBA loan forms and some other Covid19 stuff to fill out and […]
Cooking · General Blog · Learning
Thai Cabbage salad Tonight we are actually doing something from a cookbook OMG shocking but I realized just putting them on my countertop was not getting me food so I opened one up to have a talk with it and realized there were words in it. 10 minutes prep time and 5 minutes coo
Cooking · General Blog · Humor
Tom Yum Soup I was told: Take out a cookbook and look at it. I did. I even put it on the countertop. After 4 days it still has not produced food for me. I know, how crazy is that! It even says “Simple Thai Food” right on the cover. I was not expecting great […]
General Blog · Humor · Learning
Sausages Just a quick pro-tip this morning. When heating the remaining 4 pre-cooked sausages that you put into a convenient zip-lock bag please remember to remove them from the bag before nuking them for a minute. Perhaps put them on a nice plate. Also, I would suggest only 30