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Monthly Archives: October 2012

Hopping that Blog

My dear friend Shaunda Wenger invited me to participate in a blog hop titled “The Next Big Thing” which is meant to showcase a writer’s work in progress.  If you ask me that sort of sounds like a lead-in to an old Godzilla movie. So imagine if you will: Police Commissioner in thick glasses speaking … Continue reading »

Categories: Doughnuts for Amy, Good Friends, Retirement, The Next Big Thing, Uncategorized | 3 Comments

A Book Review

  Today’s forecast, grey, cold, cloudy and humid.  The day I started reading Emlyn Chand’s Torn Together, the weather mimicked the feel of the first forty pages of this novel.  20 year-old budding artist Daly English is struggling through life.  Her father has recently passed away and she is ostracized by her own mother who … Continue reading »

Categories: Great Books | 14 Comments

The Good Lady Upstairs

Bonnie, our faithful and fearless Jack Russell Terrier was growling, a deep threatening growl that meant business.  She was determined not to let this intruder near our bed.  The hair on the back of her neck spiked upward and her teeth were bared.  She was this close to leaping on and ripping into this intruder.  … Continue reading »

Categories: Dogs, Family, My Amy, Pinot Noir, Spouse, Wine | 3 Comments

Do you hear that?

  Those were foot-steps.  No question about it.  Even in the darkness I could see the fright on my wife’s face.  She threw the blanket over her and clutched me like never before, the flesh on my shoulders proving no match for her recently manicured nails.  Someone was walking on the third floor of my … Continue reading »

Categories: Adult Beverages, Death, Family, My Amy, Para-normal, Spouse | 3 Comments