This morning (if 3-something AM is morning rather than purgatory) sleep abandoned me and I flitted a bit while the most incredible orange orb settled into the Jemez Mountains. Maybe I was moonstruck. Or just lucky to be insomniac, to be witness to the most magnificent moon dance I've spectated in a while. Somewhere, somehow between mugs of tea swirling steam paisleys into the darkness I stumbled ...
Doodles
September Rabbit, Rabbit: Doodle Dare You!
I shared this cobwebby, petroglyphic doodle on virtualDavis.com back in 2012. A prehistoric hare? A doodle dare hare? Both. But it's also a rabbit. Rabbit, rabbit. Welcome to September! Today's a new month. A new chapter. A fresh start. A sparkling beginning bursting with possibility and potential. After an amazing blur of a summer, September offers a recalibration. Crisper temperatures. A ...
Publication Time
My weird-wacky-wonderful manuscript is no longer a manuscript. A far-flung and diverse mix of beta testers have generously offered me "barometer reads", and I’ve wrapped up revisions. A deft designer has alchemized the bits and pieces into a tidy book. And shortly the whole adventure will be pressed into paper. It's publication time. At last it's time to send this wayward child out into the ...
Rabbit, Rabbit
The start of a new day and a new month and a new year. I'd say that today is ripe with potential. Ready for harvest... Welcome to January. It's nice to think about ripening and harvesting in the middle of winter, even if we must summon the metaphor from the tumescent days of September. It's time to start fresh once again. Rabbit, rabbit! ...
Romance Crisis
"This is not a romance. It’s his midlife crisis." (Source: Annie’s Mailbox) ...
Flag Day
Today, June 14, is Flag Day. And this is my flag. Where's yours? I'm probably about to conflate a pair of memories, maybe three? Four? This is my Flag Day recollection. I remember painting an aging wood flagpole, repainting really, with my father as a boy. He had lowered the pole for our chore, removing a long bolt near the base that threaded through three stout, round poles arranged ...