Grama’s ghost drifts by.She wears her smile and gray curls.Does my Grama live? Ghosts are everywhere. Not the apparitions in Disney’s Haunted Mansion or the pellucid warriors floating above Hogwarts, but the twins of loved ones and colleagues from our past. I saw my grandmother’s ghost in Raley’s just the other day. That’s her onContinue reading “HW: Ghosts”
Category Archives: Love
HW: Lilacs
Lilacs in the trash,Cold tears wet the black plastic.They twist-tie their past. (Here’s the long explainer behind Haiku Wednesday. tl;dr? Just roll with it.) I was crooning along with my favorite Bonnie Raitt song, “I Can’t Make You Love Me,” when CC took off her noise-dampening headphones and asked why I like sad songs. Well,Continue reading “HW: Lilacs”
Podcast: Reality
Quick note to let our subscribers know there is a brand new writers podcast for your listening enjoyment. CC and I chat about how we writers shape the Universe within our books, and we use two of our favorite movies that show the rewards and risks of maybe going too far. Are we right orContinue reading “Podcast: Reality”
Podcast: For the Birds
Quick shot to let followers know that CC and I just posted a hilarious podcast (funny only to ourselves, of course). We sing and laugh about birds and cats and bedtime and 1970s soft rock icons. Yes, really, we sing! No talk about writing in this one, but we had fun, anyway. Click here orContinue reading “Podcast: For the Birds”
Ouchie!
Howdy hoo, neighbor, and hope this finds you well. If you’re me, the last five words there have snuck into a hundred or so emails over the year as the pandemic closed in and changed so many lives. I admit I had a growing certainty that getting COVID was a matter of “when” versus “if,”Continue reading “Ouchie!”