Meteoric observations and obliviousness

Last Monday night, a little after 11 EST, I saw a shooting star that seemed to fall from the sky and disappear just beyond the trees on the street. The short, sharp flash was so bright, I stood listening for a few seconds, half expecting to hear an explosion. I contemplated the other meteors I’ve […]

The Elusive Monarch

Finally, the butterfly bush (Buddleia) lives up to its name. It even slowed down that pesky Monarch butterfly that’s been taunting me all summer. It enjoyed the flowers just long enough for me to get a few pictures. Though it’s late, I’m still hoping to see more.

Things I believe

While following the mild foo-fa-ra I seem to have raised, I’ve been thinking. If I don’t believe in god, what do I believe?

Let’s talk about cats

As you have guessed, I have cats. In fact, for most of my adult life, I have had a succession of pairs of cats. As a writer with cats, I really, really don’t want to turn into yet another writer who blathers about her cats. But a recent comment called me out. You see, I […]

Not a bee, but an amazing simulacrum!

There’s a ton of native asters that are hard to distinguish, as I discovered after spending easily a confused hour pondering my wildflower book. I finally decided that it’s Heart-Leaved Aster overflowing in my back yard with huge plumes of pale lavender-to-white flowers feeding lots of happy bees. Except one of them is a syrphid […]

God: The Failed Hypothesis

I like messing around with God, or gods, or Cosmic Muffins, but that doesn’t mean I believe in any sort of god. So I was interested in seeing how God: The Failed Hypothesis, by Victor J. Stenger would apply the methods of science to the hypothesis that God exists. Like The Fabric of Reality, it […]

It feels like I’ve gone completely off the rails

But I haven’t. After crowing about how well writing at a regular time went for me in August, I became much more irregular about my writing time in September. If I skip writing between 11 am to noon, it only gets even harder for me to start. What happens is I get the nagging delusion […]

Re: The Pyramid of Amirah

I seem to be on a James Patrick Kelly streak; it turns out that recently Beam Me Up played the reading from Free Reads of “The Pyramid of Amirah.” It’s quite short, which makes it hard for to say more than “it’s a moody, unsettling little story.” Well, October is the right time of year […]

Gulpies

Gulped. That’s what happened to the first few babies that popped out of my new guppies.

Re: Serpent

Okay, I feel better. I cracked open my copy of James Patrick Kelly‘s latest collection, The Wreck of the Godspeed, and got a few laughs from “Serpent.” Told from the viewpoint of the serpent in the Garden, it’s worth reading (or listening to) just for the jokes. Like all good jokes, the story has plenty […]