Welcome to the new look
Wave Without A Shore

bees have feelings too...

ocean on Pluto?

...who loves to stand up and claw at the images on my telly... Or drive me berserk wanting food, grabbing my ankle, howling at me as I get up for a cup of coffee--- I tell you, devising something to keep a half-Bengal busy is a challenge. Smart. Very. I got this...

Sincerely, it feels great except for the resultant headache. Four deadening shots and a major cleanup, and I spent yesterday face down in the bean dip, and today am energy-short and headachy, but I'm actually looking forward to Oct 3, when we get the other side. THis...

In a bit of mental attic rearranging as I prepare to enter the Alliance-Union universe for a new book---I decided---why not do a piece for Closed Circle that encapsulates the history behind it. It's a short story, but sort of a fictional history sort of story that...

Got it! Jane is now doing a continuity read. I'm consulting notes on our next project. I have a notebook which is one of those 'what would you grab if there were a fire?' sort of items, which went missing---it's my notes. Names, places, timeline----and it was missing....

I outline, not your typical school outline, but sometimes bits and pieces of conversation, events, notes, etc, which I erase as I move along, so the total word count both shrinks and expands unpredictibly, sometimes so that even I don't have a real sense where I am....

We had breakfast at the waffle place, crashed for an hour, and now Jane is making my birthday present, a 'happy coat', or short kimono-type wrap, because the fan in my working space is pretty energetic, and I'd be comfy if I had a light wrap. So that is what is...

I laid out because of the dental work, but I'll tell you, I had a moment in the garden that machine pretty well paid for itself. One of those nasty things that happens to you as you get older is that where YOU think you've lifted your feet to is not where you've...

I've gotten by on Advil, no problems. I can have hot coffee today, and I can help Jane shove furniture around (prep for the garage sale.) The next appointment is in 3 weeks, to get the stitches out. Then close upon that, a deep cleaning (scaling) on 1/4 of my mouth,...

Extraction and bone graft...3 stitches. The pain was minimal, really. The cuff for the blood pressure monitor hurt worse than the extraction. Bone graft (they pour bone powder in and stitch it up) no pain. Waiting at the pharmacy while a driver with no driver's...

Some of you who were at Shejicon may have remarked that I was moving a little slowly, a little uncertainly---in point of fact the years of sitting at a keyboard have taken a heavy toll since we gave up figure skating: just years and years of not-walking, not-doing,...