Things Are In the Saddle

These lines--Things are in the saddle, And ride mankind--should be familiar to any college student who had to read early American literature.  These are lines that, when I first read them, I didn't quite understand them.  It was the late 1980s and while my husband and I were starting to tread carefully into personal computer…

Office space and wall art

Recently I moved from a small cubicle to a corner office with enough wall space for a mini-art gallery.  Since I'm prohibited from painting the walls anything other than the dullest off-white, I found a supplier of removable vinyl wall decals (www.popdecors.com) and proceeded to decorate. You may note that cats are a big theme…

Over Forty

Yea, I've made it past 40 thousand words (41,227, to be exact)! Now I can barely keep my eyes open and my throat is sore from begging my cats to just let me write a little bit more and then I will feed you! OK, maybe I wasn't begging so much as yelling at them…

Sunshine Award

What's this?  Another award for moi?  I was dumbstruck to receive two awards in as many days.  I have to give a BIG thanks to Lissa at http://thelissachronicles.wordpress.com/.  She kindly nominated me for this award, and I am truly honored.  I love Lissa's blog and I love that she's a Supernatural fan 🙂  Without further…

Versatile Blogger Award

Wow, I have been nominated for the Versatile Blogger Award by Valeriu dg Barbu (http://valeriudgbarbu.wordpress.com/) who writes truly lovely and provocative poetry.  I am honored.  The rules for this award, as I'm sure many of you know, is to:  (1) thank the blogger who nominated me and provide a link to his blog, which I…

30K+ and still writing

This is my cat Junior. He looks very innocent, doesn't he? Very sweet, very "who me?" But right now he's ramping up his piercingly plaintive cry for food (what else) and the other two (Maxine and Luisa) are pacing and chirping (yes, cats can make little noises that sound like chirps) because they also want…

8538 (and counting)

I didn't think I would have it in me to write today.  Last night (or rather this morning) I was up until 1 AM.  Fortunately I had the day off work, but I kept napping and we had "stuff" to do so I didn't get to writing again until late.  I thought for sure I…

Spam-a-lot

I'm procrastinating at the moment.  Past time to go to bed but just a few more minutes on the computer ... so I go ahead and check my stats on my blog and I have 12 spam messages.  Usually I just delete them, but some of them are quite funny so I decided to share…

The habits of medieval cats

I was surfing through some of the blogs on WordPress and came across this interesting post ... and as a cat lover, I feel compelled to share my find:   Paws, Pee, and Mice: Cats Among Medieval Manuscripts.  (And it is related to writing.)  Enjoy!

Max the Manx

If I had known that I would never see Max again, I would have taken his picture so I could share him with all of you. I’d want you all to see his tiny green eyes staring up at me from the folds of the cloth bag that he nestled in. I gazed down at…