Hello, my name is ... FIDO ... (a dog can’t be too careful about his privacy on social media) and I’m here to tell you about my latest adventure. Recently I needed a break from my people, so I sent them away for seven weeks and asked them to get me some replacement humans to … Continue reading Tales From My Human-Sit
Random Ramblings
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His gilder-fluke broke on the flunker-flopper
At yesterday's monthly meeting of my writers' group I offered a few hundred words from the manuscript I am still slaving over. I had my heroine walking up the gangplank of a sailing ship in 1885. The problem with using that word is it conjures up pirates in the reader's imagination. Did I have it … Continue reading His gilder-fluke broke on the flunker-flopper
We All Got a Place in the Choir
Line Dance: All God's Creatures Got a Place in the Choir I must confess to not doing much exercise these days. It's not as if my little peepers fly open in the morning and I am filled with the urge to spring out of bed and walk / swim / gym / bicycle (actually, I … Continue reading We All Got a Place in the Choir
The Reluctant Retiree 