Terror into Treats
Running a little late this year. But I have another one to follow tomorrow. Then we’ll go outside and see what progress James has made on the spookifying of Winwood Manor.
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. Albert Camus
Mountains of Leaves Under the leaves Fired with red, breaking with yellow Dew makes the grass still green And as the trees lose more and more they Don’t all shatter underfoot, but slide Careful don’t fall. He’ll go out soon, collecting the sodden And the crisp, the dastardy sweet gum balls …
Taking the Plunge
Well I’m going to give something a try. Tomorrow I’m going to put together my first Halloween blog/movie  and see if I can get going on having at least two Halloween themed entries a week. I’m also trying #Octpowrimo , which considering my poetry writing, once such a huge (in both …
For in every adult there dwells the child that was, and in every child there lies the adult that will be.
― John Connolly, The Book of Lost Things Tonight my sweet little girl (who is not having the easiest start to the school year but better than last year), my darling child said: “Mommy, this might be kind of random, but I need to ask you something,” I said, “sure …
Come to the edge, he said. They said: We are afraid.
Come to the edge he said. They came. He pushed them and they flew. ~Guillaume Apollinaire  i will not live a life of what ifs. I will not wait any longer to begin, to begin again and begin again and again. I will be afraid, but I will come …
I’m so clever~~ Sunday Driver
Heroes inside our heads To stay alive we subdivide deeply down Big words what do they mean? The rule of love beneath, above in-between… I know what loving means So clever I’m so clever Don’t know what living means So clever I’m so clever I’m so clever Heroes they like …
Don’t look now, we’re everywhere
I started off this morning reading some urban fantasy on my kindle and then moved to reading the debate going on between John Scalzi uber geek and less uber geek Joe Peacock (who designs Fark, that I used to like– well the politics and Caturday threads, but don’t go anymore …
And now for something completely different
So I don’t do this ever…like EVER I don’t think. I mean I’ve written about some online shops I really like (for example  Bpal even though I haven’t purchased from them in quite some time, having other things to spend my money on. And welli in  a short obsessed while …
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. Oscar Wilde
And then there are days when  you take a look at yourself and get a big ole eyeful. I know I’m not the worst person in the world. I am also not the best. I try to be kind, but sometimes I’m kinder to strangers than I am to my …
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.Marcel Proust
It has taken me forever to figure this out. Why WHY did I not know this before. Here is what I am learning: You can never know. You can never ever know 100% for sure that any decision you make is going to be the right one. It sounds simple …
Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall. Ray Bradbury
A light that burned strong and steadily for 91 years went out today. All over the internet there will be moments taken by Geeks everywhere. And they’ll stop, like me and write a moment, or just think to themselves about Mr. Ray Bradbury. Thank you sir for giving me my …
What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?~ Aeschylus
I think I am not a very good hostess. I used to be, when the stakes were lower. You know–when all you needed was a fully stocked bar and a few things for guests to nibble upon. The real party was always brought by the guests and all the hostess …
Selfishly unselfish
So how do you teach your child to be unselfish? And how unselfish should s/he be? Honestly this isn’t an unselfish society. We are all looking for more status, more money more power—so how do you raise your kids to think of others. When really? That isn’t what life in …
Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.~Albert Einstein
It’s been awhile. I go from talking every day to saying nearly nothing. Its been a rough few weeks for me. I’ve been ill, which hasn’t helped my general outlook. I’ve also been having a really difficult time determining where the truth is about some really important things. It’s very …
Adversity is the first path to truth. ~Lord Byron
I keep coming up against this question. When is enough, enough? When is it time to give up the ghost, throw in the towel, call the game on account of rain? I’m not going to be nearly as poetic here as I was when I faced this question just a …
Alphabetical Observation
I’ve done a few blogging challenges with varying degrees of success. I have always succeeded at November nablopomo, though not at any other month. I also succeeded at reverb10. I did not however, succeed at whatever reverb 11 was (it was too fractured for me, no one place to connect …