Tales from the Raven

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 [...]

If you smelled something heavenly Saturday, you needn’t worry.  It wasn’t the rapture and you weren’t left behind–it was just Hillsborough’s much anticipated Hog Day!  My first favorite of the day had to be this hat, which was spotted by the fantastic and fun Orange Charter School table.  Next on our list of must haves was of course food, [...]

I usually blog on Sundays, but since I sometimes blog on Mondays or even miss a week, today I’m blogging on Friday.  Did that make sense?  Oh, good!  For a minute there I thought my logic had gone bad. The wonderfully stylish and sensational Pat Esden has tapped me for the: Which I’m delighted to [...]

Today was one of those lovely days that can only be considered a precious gift.  Beautiful messages and music in church this morning, good friends to be silly with this afternoon, and of course some spectacular egginess.  Because the egginess can’t be stopped, don’t you know?  White or brown, they are filled with nutritiousness and always up for a little fun.  As always [...]

Once upon a time a family looked around the coop and realized their chickens were a bit boring.  They wanted to liven things up.  They talked with the chickens, and asked if they’d be willing to lay some colored eggs, like Easter Egg layers.  The chickens said no.  They only knew how to make brown eggs.  [...]

I had grand plans of getting a post and pics up every day we stayed in Disney World.  I’d start with a tribute to Walt Disney himself, and move on to commentary on the universality of creativity.  Alas, my grand blogging plans were hijacked by a lion on a mission. As you can see, he [...]