Life in the Southwest. We live among the denizens who make sounds city folks, as we once were, don’t hear. A creative nonfiction. Yet it could as easily be part of a scene or setting in a bit of fiction in the right story. The quail broke from their brushy cover in a flutter of […]
Because I once or twice contributed to a Go Fund Me campaign, I occasionally get announcements of success stories. This is one of them that fits nicely within the monthly WATWB post. Gunnar was hit by a truck on February 16th of 2014. . . On that cold winter day in a rural Wisconsin vet […]
Observations make the scene. Especially when the story is not coming. We remark on this one often enough. So today it is a snippet. Transfixed. Obsessed somewhat we think. Limbs and needles moving in the breeze. Sun and shadows vie for his attention. What does he see that we don’t? Another lifetime, perhaps. He might […]
We are blessed with lots of wildlife at our home high atop a hill in southwestern New Mexico. Yesterday a quail with two young ones walked in front of the house; today, four adults walked along the short stone wall 15-feet from the house. Hummingbirds are in abundance, as a recent post briefly noted. Today, […]
This month’s good news story comes from Huffington Post (yes, an unlikely source). Lifeline Animal Project, a nonprofit that runs multiple shelters in the Atlanta area, launched its first annual “Home for the Pawlidays” program this year. For the week surrounding Thanksgiving, the 20 dogs are staying “as special guests in people’s homes,” spokeswoman Karen Hirsch […]
Don’t miss out! Just two days remain to Download The Fountain for FREE—today and Monday, December 18th. It goes back to the regular price on the 19th. See snippets from just three of the reviews that we have received. Read the rest of these and other reviews on the Amazon page. It’s in the top ten […]
Download The Fountain for FREE—tomorrow and any of the next four days: December 14 through the 18th. It goes back to the regular price on the 19th. Don’t miss out! See snippets from just three of the reviews that we have received. Read the rest of these and other reviews on the Amazon page. “The Twilight Zone Meets Philip […]
Just a short something today–very short. Other things are demanding my time. Still, you may find this amusing if you, like my wife, thinks your dog licks too much. When she makes that observation to Max, he ignores her admonition and continues. I, on the other hand, may note this variation on an old expression: […]
Jackie loved to startle the Canadian geese into flight—darting at them where they munched the grass next to the pool parking lot and left behind their green and white little-finger-sized droppings. She went only a few paces with no hope or intention of catching any of the big birds—just amusing herself at their expense. She […]