Tales from the Raven

Those of you who know what a night owl I am are probably choking on you coffee or OJ. Sorry.  I’ll give you a minute. But I’m actually discovering a few morning joys…and it’s nice!  First, there’s the sunrise thing–did you guys know the sun comes up all big and pretty in the morning?  That it [...]

Most of you are doing this: Or, some variation thereof.  After all, Thanksgiving is next week and there are menus to write, food to cook, and guests/travel to plan for. I, on the other hand, have been doing this, and this, which is me setting up my winter village and making winter/Christmas crafts.  As I [...]

Tonight I ventured out as Bellatrix Lestrange.  I knew the muggles wouldn’t notice me, as they were gorging themselves on candy and blinded by their masks.  They also spent a lot of time talking to pieces of plastic.  So typical of muggles! It was distasteful to brush elbows with the muggles, but I had a [...]

It’s October, and the Thirteenth–what could possibly be cooler than that?  Well, maybe if you flipped those numbers around and made it the 31st, so we could all get our fill of candy and costumes!  Of course, that would also mean the month was over, and I’d never hasten October on its way.  ‘Sides, I [...]

Last night when I went in to do the dishes (at 11:00pm, the only decent hour for housework) the pile was so ugly and aggressively leering that I grabbed my camera and took a picture.  That way I’d be ready if some nasty beast crawled out and demanded I cook him an omelette. Plus, I’ll always have [...]

Facebook, email, texting…if you’re anything like me, sending letters in the mail as a form of communication sounds really, really sloooow.  But what if you couldn’t even use the good old red flag on your mailbox, and had to send your messages by bottle and cork?  What would you say? Me, I think I’d write [...]

I am in denial.  Every day I pretend I have a life, and the reason I check my emails seventeen times an hour has nothing to do with the three requested fulls I have currently under consideration with agents.  I act cool, casual.  Pretend patience.  But I’m not fooling anyone.  The truth is, I’ve been bit by the querying bug, [...]

Is another man’s treasure, right?  That how the saying tells it.  So I guess it’s no surprise that the recent heat wave that’s had most of us moaning and groaning that even the pool was too hot would be heaven for someone out there.  Some one prickly, pineapple-shaped…and presumed dead.  My Cycad, to be exact. [...]

I’ve discovered something better than forks, knives, spoons, chopsticks or even fingers for eating food.  It’s lettuce!  It started one day when I wanted the mandarin orange chicken my husband was cooking, but not the rice that went with it.  I remembered how much I love PF Changs lettuce wraps, and, Ta Da!  One lettuce [...]

This is what comes from rampant flights of imaginative wonder coupled with a tendency to obsess.  I didn’t mean it to happen.  I was just day-dreaming a bit and thinking up a spunky little fellow for 13 Demon Days, but apparently my creativity has taken on a life of its own.  Look what followed us home [...]