War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
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 ‘time off‘ post and background to the whole literary affair can be found here. I’m self-publishing ‘Corona’ gal via Outskirts…
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 lesser moment — in the last several days for some reason beyond my comprehension, I’ve somehow been pulled into Bruce…
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 gonna shine on me (Shine) Shine on me, yeah (Shine) Come on and shine Keeping a shine going is Miss…
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 an early Christmas present — promising them a hot chocolate party if she hit a half-court shot during recess. Kathleen…
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 was most-excellent, the instructor (can’t remember her name now; she also worked for The Fresno Bee at the time as…
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 a bit on a long-time personal project now nearly 30 years in the making. Hence, an ‘obsessive‘ urge to maybe…
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 it looks to be a fun time. A lot of shit will happen — or not — before I post…
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 in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks about three hours southeast of my location are now reportedly 55-percent contained, there’s…
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 noises from neighbors around about, though, none all that close, but still a kind of musical normalcy. A sense rare…
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 real reality in current circumstances means a great deal. This serial has been way-mostly songs from what’s become my most-favorite…
