Do you mind? I’m trying to sleep!!!

Yesterday, I wrote about authors who screw around with punctuation and make a bizillion dollars with their flagrant disregard for all those nasty grammatical rules — as set down in third grade by Sister Mary Hercules and her wooden stick. Hah! I should talk. I wouldn’t know my comma from a hole [...]

James Frey wrote a book. A work based both literally and loosely on experience. He tried to offer his manuscript as fiction, but somewhere along the line, someone decided it should be a memoir. So, memoir it was! A Million Little Pieces was filled with truth and fiction and punctuation that [...]

Here’s my favorite version of the classic Leonard Cohen song. My kids call it the Shrek song. I call it beautiful, haunting.
Hallelujah
I understand only part of its esoteric words, but misunderstanding something’s full meaning doesn’t make it any less meaningful.
I live in Arizona where the trunks of people’s cars are festooned with “Support [...]

Me: Do you remember Underwear Boy?
Dan: The one in the tidy whities that we could see through our bedroom window? Yeah, why?
Me: We need curtains.
Dan: We have shades.
Me: I know, but we still need curtains. What if I want to walk through the house in my underwear?
Dan: [...]

It’s naptime at the McCanta house. Hubby’s on the couch, mouth open, sweet and softly snoring. Dogs litter the hallway with their long bodies, legs all akimbo. Now and then, I hear the thump, thump of a tail in half-wag, then that silly whimper-scamper that dogs do when they dream. I’m [...]

Wilson the Labradoodle is five months old now. He’s getting his big boy teeth. With the help of some nice hard Nyla bones, lots and lots of chewy toys, and a bizillion admonitions to “Leave it!” if he even looks at a contraband item, he’s managed to pop through a number of very [...]

I met writers today. REAL writers! Folks who have published books sitting right there on bookstore shelves. Published WRITERS!!!
As I slobbered after them, trying hard to maintain my last semblance of decorum while drool ran down my chin, I noticed something odd. They walked on two legs just like the rest [...]

Okay, so life is crazy goofy.  Me!  At my age … have decided to get in shape and grow a muscle.  Maybe two or even three.  For the past weeks, I’ve been working out with a personal trainer who stands over me and yells in my ear.  COME ON, WUSSY GIRL.  GIMME TEN MORE.  NOW!!!

Did [...]