I have no excuse for playing hooky these several (gasp, six!) months. I do have kind of a half-assed explanation, though. In brief, it’s simply that from time to time I get, as we’d be likely to say in west Texas, all wrote out. Nothing else to add. Nothin’ shakin’. No new uninvited animal guests. [...]
Hi, everybody! Herewith an embarrassing report on my brief flirtation with Adventure. Extremely brief, as it turned out. We’ve both been so bound up lately in projects, either finishing them or finding creative strategies to avoid them, that we were two quarts low on fun. Then in Friday’s Weekend Guide I saw an ad for Segway [...]
This year Robert-the-Goodman and I are again hosting the whole clan for Thanksgiving, about 16 darling people. As I begin my to-do list, my standards are (as usual) dropping faster than my panties on Saturday night. For example, I just learned about turkey thighs! I realize they’re a cop-out, but not as bare-faced as my [...]
Tags: cooking, humor, parties, Thanksgiving
Hi, everybody! This morning when I opened our new stainless steel fridge, sunlight from the garden room struck its door and created a shimmering light against the cabinets. Of course, Buddy thought it was a Marfa light and went into alarm mode, barking furiously at it, tail vibrating at 500 rpm’s. This represents a conjunction, [...]
Tags: dogs, hallucinations, humor, laser pointer, Marfa lights, puppy
Hi everybody! I gotta tell you, until now I have resisted blogging like a kid squirms at vaccination time. I was et up (as my Louisiana grandmother used to say) with performance anxiety. Although I have written five books, I was intimidated by all the terrific blogs I’ve seen elsewhere. Then I realized that I love [...]
