A PETTY THIEVES’ TALE

12183950_1057108614324041_1944270533573573675_oI can’t think of a better TBT to share with you on this National Donut Day than an earlier tribute to two old donut lovin’ dawgs. Enjoy. It’s fat-free.

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photo 2Sir Francis Bacon once said, “Opportunity makes a thief.” Indeed, it does. For what do you think happens when you leave a box full of donuts untended in a room with two Labrador Retrievers?

Now, when I say a box full, I mean a heap – a complete dozen. I’m talkin’ three Bavarian Kremes, two chocolate glazed, four jelly, an apple crumb and two powdered.

If you’re thinking the obvious answer is a couple of bloated (w)itches with a ‘B’  or  puddled boat loads of barf on the living room rug well, no, not this time. Although, having read some of our pooches’ previous antics, I can understand why you’d think that.

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ONE HECK OF A MO

Here a Mo, there a Mo,
Everywhere a Mo, Mo.
If you write or are thinking of writing, November’s got the MO
that will invite the muse and ignite inspiration.
First, the mother of MOs.
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A HALLOWEENSIE TREAT

IMG_1872‘Tis the eve of All Hallows. Gus embarks on a jaunt
to The Lodge at Devil’s Canyon, his Mummy’s favorite haunt.

Flying in the dark, astride his sister’s broom,
the wee ghoul soars in his snowman costume.

Until *putt-putt-poot* the broom starts to roll—
The gas tank is empty!
He’s outta control—

Zigging past witches, pumpkins, and bats,
Zagging o’er graveyards complete with black cats…

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(EXTRA)ORDINARY

When a fortune cookie

Fortune Cookie

and a photo challenge cross paths, the results can be extraordinary,
like
the sites of San Francisco made from 100,000 toothpicks

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MY HAPPY PLACE

When the craziness of the outer world invades my inner peace, a visit to a nearby happy place and a deep breath restores the calm:

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PASS THE AWESOME SAUCE, PLEASE

AWE SAUCE1The fog had not yet cleared, the air had a nip to it that warranted wearing a light jacket, and I was dang happy that Lucy did not step on the snake that popped from the underbrush and slithered across the trail in front of her. Considering the welcome change in the weather and the avoided trip to the vet juxtaposed to the state of the world I had witnessed on the morning news, I thought to myself, What an awesome day!

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THE HOUSE OF HANGING WORDS

WriNoSCan you think of a better place than an entire house filled with books and art for a group of writers and artists to meet once a month to dive into craft?

I can’t.

Besides lending itself to good company, tasty nibbles, and an occasional flute of prosecco, The House of Hanging Words, thusly dubbed by some band of merry scribes, offers a space rife with inspiration. Ideas fly off its sunny walls, funnel thoughts through furiously scribbling pens, and splash them onto sheaves of pristine paper, as they did here…

I know myself linked by chains of fire

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CELESTIAL MUSINGS

Do stars look to the heavens and marvel at their surroundings?
Might they gossip over a neighbor’s blueshift or trails of cosmic dust

as they redshift on their path to eternity? Continue reading

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Travel Tip # 1 – A LAUGHING MATTER

camel talkWhenever the travel bug sends me to a place where I don’t speak the language, I make it a point to learn how to say No – Thank you. In my experience, a nod accompanied by a smile will do for Hello, a wave equals Good-bye, and hands lined up in a prayer position accompanied by a slight nod or lightly patting the place over my heart with one hand will likely be understood as thank you.

It’s the No, thanks that can be tough.

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TODAY IS A GOOD DAY

il_340x270.722380430_bjxeSeven weeks. That’s forty-nine days or one-thousand-one-hundred-seventy-six hours since my last post.

When I began blogging nearly three years ago, my intention was to post once a week with an occasional lapse only due to post adventure maladies, jelly-fish stings, or extended bouts of sea-sickness – none of which apply here.

So was it the lazy days of summer or the apocalyptic cataclysm of losing a complete Continue reading

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