EXPLORING THE MAGICAL AND THE MUNDANE


  • Sunday Character Casting

    One of my favorite things to do is to scour images to find just the right people to play my characters.  I’m not the only author to do this, BTW.  I’ve seen whole Pin boards devoted to this fun activity for authors.  Perhaps I should create my own Pin board….nahhhh….that kind of stuff takes away…


  • Sunday Morning Brunch

    You poor dearies!  Your coffee must be stone cold by now.  I have been remiss.  I meant to write something yesterday so it could self-post.  (Love that feature.)  But, alas, a dear friend came over and brought a dear bottle of J champagne which is oh-so-yummy and all my good intentions went up in bubbles.…


  • Aging Coffee

    It’s Thursday.  A long way from Sunday, but Mr. Al is taking me away this weekend to celebrate my birthday, which is tomorrow.  My MacBook’s calendar had a delightful little reminder this morning informing me that tomorrow is Cammy’s 58th Birthday.   ACK!!!!!!   I was pretending not to notice how close to 60 that…


  • Okay, I wrote a whole long rant to post and then deleted it all….   “Wait a minute,” I told myself. “What do you think you’re doing?  This is NOT the tone you want to set for all those Sunday morning readers!  Geez!   Not at all!!!!  Furthermore, neither do you want to get worked up…


  • I am imagining rain today….probably because people are talking about drought.  It has been a lovely winter in Northern California.  The nights have been chilly and clear or if there has been coastal fog (which the redwoods drink), it burns off early in the day.  The days have been sunny with highs in the 50s…