Funny?
About a week ago, someone on another forum (not writing related) posted a series of funny pictures, peeled from a website. Here’s one of them: It’s a sticker that you put on your luggage, the sort of thing that will cause, presumably, many a head to turn when you’re wheeling through the airport. Looks like […]
That Was Unexpected
Yesterday, I was out mowing my lawn, an activity made slightly more difficult than normal by the fact that I haven’t done it in two weeks for the front half and three for the back. The good thing is the it-grows-so-fast-it’-put-on-three-inches-in-the-time-it-took-to-read-this part of the season is over; I was able to get the front half […]
A Weekend Conversation
On Saturday I ran into one of the Magpie’s friend, the Robin, who is freshly-returned from college for the summer. While talking about school (the curse of every returning college student is they get stuck talking about the same thing whenever they run into any adult they know–when’d ya get back, how did it go, […]
Musical Monday: Change In The Weather
This Musical Monday is brought to you by Mother Nature, who has seen fit to flip a seasonal switch in this little corner of the world. First, a shout-out to the Catbird and her teammates and coaches on the cross country team–they won their conference championship meet on Saturday! On Friday at the office I […]
Random Thoughts on a Friday
It’s not yet 6 AM and I’m still working on coffee number 1. I was out at a board meeting until late last night, the Catbird needs a ride to school around 7, i.e., well before the bus, and I have a charter dinner to attend right after work. So, yeah, we’re on a random […]
Pseudo-No Post Friday
There is no post today, and here’s why: At the tail end of July, I was hired by a local organization to fill a position on an interim basis. The previous occupant of said position was not up to the task. I was brought in because I know the boss and the boss knows me, […]
Bits and Pieces for a Friday
It’s Friday morning, and I’m once more not ready with a well-organized, deeply thought out topic. I have ideas, mind you, but I don’t have as much time during the week as I used to so it all kind of gets put off and we end up with this sort of loose collection of nonsense. […]
Child’s Play
Yesterday morning a post turned up in my Facebook feed from my friend, Lisa Regan, and I consider myself lucky to have seen it, because it’s Facebook, and things get shuffled, ordered and reordered, with no rhyme or reason, kind of like Amazon rankings. At any rate, this was close enough to the top of […]
The Tipping Point
I’m an early riser. Some years ago, faced with a long commute, I started rising around 5:30 in the morning, which was earlier than I really needed to be up. I like to have time to ease into the day, have a couple of cups of coffee, maybe something to eat. When I stopped commuting […]
Oh, forget it
I have a couple of posts in various stages of completion, but nothing complete enough to whip out and finish today. I really need to start getting ahead of this game again. Here, have some Tom Petty: On a good note, The Magpie is now home for the summer following a very successful freshman year […]