Curiosities

I came across this gem today: These 12 foot skeletons aren’t just for Halloween. I feel like I’ve found more members of my tribe. I do hats, some of these people do shirts. We all do skellys all year long. Mine aren’t 12 feet tall, but they do sit near the dining room table with us. They look like they’re posing for a cover of an 80’s album in that pic! My…

In the last Friday Tomfoolery, I wrote about the liminal state that The Lawman, my work in progress, is in. I’m having to shift gears, again. From the onset of this manuscript, I’ve had one life event after another happen. Big things not everyday annoyances. Family issues, my own two surgeries, and my mother’s hospice and subsequent death. It was a long-ass three years that stirred up a lot of unresolved and/or…

I just read a NYT article about peacocks which made me think about all the feral cats roaming around Phoenix. I feel bad for them because it’s hot here and their numbers increased when the housing market crashed in 2008. (I’m feeling a little old saying it that way: “Back in ’08…”). Arizona was one the hardest hit places, along with California, Florida, and Nevada. A lot of people lost their homes…

Here’s something I wrote years ago on my other blog, Through a Bird’s eye. Enjoy! (Not the boots I wore that day–those were tall boots, my standard wear.) One morning during class, I was circulating, checking in on the groups & their progress, when I spied a very large cockroach crawling across the back wall. I gasped & said, cockroach, but aside from those in the back row moving their chairs away…

For the past five or so years, we’ve had sporadic sightings of a lone Cooper’s hawk in our yard, which I loved. He even brought his kills to my front window, enjoying them as I gawked at him from my desk. The view from my desk is really spectacular. If you were to look out my window, you might say, “Ah, that’s nice.” However, the real treat is watching the spectacle of…