After a very relaxing couple of weeks taking the sea air in Bath–I mean, shooting empty soda cans in Texas–I’m ready to get back to Monday through Friday blogicizing. I still haven’t finished reading Revelations! I’ve reached the point where I’m dying to know how it ends, but I’m afraid to finish too quickly, because […]
Apparently, “oekaki” means “to draw a picture” in Japanese. Ages and ages ago, Oekaki was just a place I went to use a web-based graphics program to make and share mostly terrible art with complete strangers. This odd little gem represents the apogee of my success: I’m not crazy about the face, but the feathers, […]
100% True Story: One time my cat, Fry, caught a lizard and somehow got it stuck in his collar. He just accepted it and snuggled up to take a nap, which allowed me to snap this infamous photo: I shit you not, when I got that poor little lizard free, the sucker was still alive. […]
I’m writing from the past, knowing there’s not a chance in hell I’ll feel like posting on Tuesday. As of right now, I’m 2 books shy of my 2022 reading goal of just 24 books. Adding a few short stories to my list felt like cheating at first, but I read some big old fat […]
I’ll eventually regret sharing something so personal; but since I’ll be on the road Monday en route to my childhood stomping grounds, and because “All My Exes Live in Texas,” it’s on my mind. No one reads this blog anyway, right? I left my first husband because he was physically abusive, which is the necessary […]
As a Sagittarius, I of course don’t believe in astrology. Nevertheless, I find it a reliable and often hilarious source of inspiration. The same can be said of personality type descriptors like Myers-Briggs, DiSC, and the Enneagram; but those are analytical, long-winded, and boring. Astrology is fun and sexy, especially when I read things like […]
Just an eons-old sketch of an elf lady asleep in a tree with a cat. – AK
WARNING: Sentimental Nonsense Ahead. Those with weak stomachs are advised against proceeding. Some Texas neighborhoods have alleys behind rows of houses, and in some the yard behind you butts right up against a shared back fence. In the house where I grew up, a deep, wide concrete ditch – which I now know is called […]
Everyone knows writing a book is hard, even if they’ve never done it. It’s so inherently daunting a task to self-impose that some people never bother to start, and a lot of people can’t seem to finish. This week I re-read A Great Deliverance by Elizabeth George. Obviously I liked it enough the first time […]
My muse and I are both fire signs. That’s all. – AK
