Kipling crawled right next to Zippy! Thank you for helping me decide on the perfect name, Kelly (and all others who made suggestions starting with the letter K (that was the litter – named alphabetically in rotation – Zippy was part of the Z litter). Here she is at 8 weeks! I am so excited,…
I can’t help it: I’m posting puppy photos. Probably, bucketloads of puppy photos will filter into your world far into the future. Puppies don’t have anything to do with my next favorite albums to listen to while creating art List. Although, to any outside observer, both puppies and music may lead to a better understanding…
Zippy on the back deck of the house waiting for me to stop reading so he can start eating dinner.
In Memoriam… Figaro following us around the shed… Figaro 1999-2010 Lucille always willing to get wet… Lucille 1995-2008 Myrtle, part Irish Setter/German shepherd, a graceful mutt… Myrtle 1992-2008 The Girls quick to strike a pose… Myrtle, Lucille and Zippy puppy… …they taught him to be calm, and a gentle dog… Loper 1989-2000 and Roo (brothers)…
The early July vacation really soothed the soul. On Chesterman Beach . . . The Spot for surfing in Tofino . . . A place I’d love to return to . . . I first heard of The Wickaninnish Inn when my longtime friends, Martin and Dale, traveled there during the winter for storm-watching season.…
So, one of the most influential writers of the 1960s passed away early this month at the age of 77, and I remember Theodore Roszak for more than his most famous book. I first heard of Theodore Roszak when I picked up a mass market edition of his novel, Flicker, a book about film,…
Happy 4th of July weekend . . . watch the fireworks and marvel . . . I’m off to the Wickaninnish Inn in Tofino, BC for the week and will try to take a lot of photos . . . May the colors pop ‘ – ) Please subscribe to a writer’s…
Too little time to read all the great books I want to read… Zippy and Eartha Kitt’n woke up in the morning in time to say: CHEESE ‘ – ) Here is a list of 25 books I want to read as soon as I can: 1 Room by Emma Donoghue 2 The Glass Castle:…
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Advice columns always interest me. I like finding out if the advice truly answers the question and usually it does, but I also wonder what happens afterward: did the writer seeking advice follow the directive? A Victoria, BC moonrise . . . What happened next? A reader or reality-show watcher seldom witnesses the fallout, the…