Category: Random

Me talkin to myself

  • We walk in the morning before breakfast. Almost every day. Dreary, rainy, sunny, beckoning — whatever. We have our routes. But sometimes we venture along a street or an alley off our usual pattern. Last week on a dreary morning, we ventured down an alley that rarely calls to us. (An aside about the alleys…

  • This travel blog — I stumbled on it while gawking around the vast universe of travel blogs — caught my attention for its depth of coverage. The Wandering Queen surprised me for its effort to provide detailed and useful information about places and gear. Since it covers areas I’m familiar with (including Oregon and western…

  • I missed two personal deadlines to get a somewhat polished version of my young adult thriller, “The Macklin Powers,” off to early readers. I promised to send it on a Friday. Friday passed with nothing sent. Then a week went by. Then I promised it would arrive on Monday, a day that also came and…