Here this near-mid-day Saturday a notice I’ll be taking some ‘time off‘ from blog writing again to continue with the editing of my soon-to-be-published first novel, “Brown-Eyed Girl With A Cold Corona” — my last…
Man, just tired and bored with all this shit, and this early-evening Tuesday here in California’s Central Valley, you got to stay hungry. In lieu of senseless, shitty snatches of news, a post-clip of a…
A supposedly special day despite reality — what will I find: I’m gonna let it shine I’m gonna let it shine Heaven’s little light gonna shine on me Hey, yeah, hey, yeah Heaven’s little light…
Already a seen thing by just about everybody, but it’s way appropriate: Story/background narrative via The Daily Mail this morning: A Washington DC elementary school teacher who played basketball in college gave her third-grade students…
In the early 1990s, during the opening phase of my life-altering divorce, I took a nighttime college course in literary marketing — manuscript devices/ideas, finding agents, trolling for publishers, whatnot — and although the course…
Here this late-afternoon Friday, the blog calendar has run seventeen days without a post — my longest period of no-posting in well more than a year, maybe longer — and returning to the InterWebs with…
Hey to the way-few readers of Compatible Creatures — I’ll most-likely not be posting for a while. My children will be in town this week — we’ve got an Airbnb not too far away and…
Muted-yellow sunshine this late-afternoon Sunday here in California’s Central Valley — there’s a shine in the air, but a bit on the mellow side, like maybe influenced by some forest fire smoke. Although fires burning…
Nice early-autumn, late-afternoon Sunday here in California’s Central Valley with warm sunshine and cool shade. Out in the backyard a few moments ago doing a B&M (Wine, wood-tip) break, and the ambiance comforting with family/children…
As if to soften the deafening shitstorm/clusterfuck of current life, another in our continuing series ‘Destination‘ (last one here) with some more acoustic-like music to soothe away the myriad troubles and woe — romance of…