Scanner can be proud of me.  I didn't lose any money this time.  He was worried last time that I lost twenty dollars and he was going to have to come here and protect me.   I must be an easy mark because I think I have been scammed… Read full post »

   I've spent the last two nights downtown at some great Blues Clubs watching my friend jam and do the live mike sessions.  The ambiance is fantastic and the sound is electric.   It makes me feel old tho.

   I am used to going to Blues Clubs in… Read full post »

  They are flitting thru the trees in the backyard.  I go out to talk to them frequently and ask them what is next.  Basic forms right now seem almost plenty but I know we will get more elaborate as time goes by.  The most important thing is that they can… Read full post »

   The Swimming Pool opened today.  The first thing I saw when I got to the deep end was a single geranium petal shaped like a heart floating in the turquoise blue water.

   I ran up to the bush that was generating these… Read full post »

    When I look back at the life I had with my alcoholic, bank robbing felon I marvel that I not only survived our four years together but I miss him.  I miss his body and his attention.  I miss sleeping with him and having the holidays with… Read full post »

   Shiela enjoyed telling the story of "Little Red Riding Hood" to the children at the reading group in her little library.  She would sit perched on a stool in front of the group and crouch down when she started to describe how the wolf wore grandma's clothing after he ate… Read full post »

Passive voice.   The focus is on the action. " Brutus was stabbed by Ceasar" is a passive sentence.   "Ceasar stabbed Brutus." is not a passive voice. Confusing...

 Soooooo.....

      Hands Across the World

  She was kissed by him.  A long sweet comi… Read full post »

Adoration is shown to Christ believed to be really present in sacramental bread whose reality has been changed into that of his body.

    Belief that one substance has the qualities of another is magical thinking.  It is one of the basic tenants of many religions.  Stuff is not wh… Read full post »

I have a hard time with symmetry as it makes me feel all bound in by rules and regulations.  I was making red dragonflies with wild excitement during the first wing.  Then I realized that I had to make more wings exactly like that first wing.  I joked that maybe I… Read full post »

  My mom is mortified that I bought a black summer purse.  I needed a bigger size purse to carry all the stuff that is extra in the sunny time of the year.  I found one at goodwill that was a former diaper bag but very sheekly black.  It was only… Read full post »

 Southern Californian grapefruit.  Two for a dollar.  Pink and luscious!

  The first spoonful starts with careful placement and a jiggling to go in deep. You can't penetrate the skin and you have to let up jus… Read full post »

     Rocks, paving stones and clipped bushes dot the park where my mother lives in Southern California.… Read full post »

   There is a place we go that has the most incredible desserts in town.  It is a popular place for lovers and family, birthdays and anniversaries.  You have to wait in line but that is the case with most places in a big city that have a reputation for quality. … Read full post »

Write a story where a character goes back one year in time.

     He died.   A time machine materialized in the living room eleven months after he was gone.  She came in to find it glowing and vibrating.  

 "Step in," she heard it say.

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  I went over with my neighbor to see the eviction notice on the house next door.  For those of you who have been following the saga the young woman in the house was arrested last week.   I heard her loudly lamenting that she had to go to court a few… Read full post »

   People are hesitant to reveal too much about themselves.  At a recent party they played the game..."What is your most embarassing moment."  No one wanted to tell.  The intimate times that we bury deep down inside are things we want to hide and cannot be told.

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  My sweet daughter knows how to make a pot of beans.  We have a rice cooker and the brown rice is basic and delicious.  Add a corn tortilla and you have a nutritious meal.  How many people do not know how to… Read full post »

  I think it all started when I took a wrong turn onto the wrong freeway.  I was trying to find my way to the airport on this new direction that was so unexpected when I saw the motorcycle cop on my tail with his lights flashing.

  So I… Read full post »

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    One of my daughters, Iris Ann, and my mother.

    This world can be so messy and sad.  But we are fine.

    We have a flare for beauty, inside and out. 

 &… Read full post »

       I felt the energy of this butterfly as I was painting it.  Usually I get a little tired at some point and I see the quality go down on what I am doing.  I get a little careless and fuzzy.  But with this guy I was… Read full post »

  The Stucco Butterflies are coming.  I worked on them all weekend and I was covered with cement today giving them a coat of stucco.  I made six butterflies and all went well with five of them.

  As I was forming the shape of the sixth butterfly the tip… Read full post »