First Snow of February
Snow day. Light fluffy flakes, piling on the grass and houses and cars but not sidewalk or pavement. Canceled plans to go out. It’ll be 50 degrees by midweek. No sense fighting the snow and ice on the...
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Contrast and Brightness
One month ago at this moment our yard was silent and white. A foot of snow covered everything, including the lake. The pines had a light frosting of white and the darker bark of the elms and walnuts...
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Chandleresque Cozies newsletter signup — the official handwritten welcome note
Every person who signs up for my newsletter gets a personal welcome. Some, it’s just that: a welcome. Others, it’s an excerpt from something I’ve written. Most, though, get a vignette I compose on the...
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Fortnight
3-day convention in Tucson 3-day drive Tucson AZ -> Tucumcari NM Tucumcari NM -> Kearny MO Kearny MO -> Cameron WI 3 days with friends in Cameron, in a big old rambling farm house and a...
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Coffee, 2 Weathers, Please
People make funny assumptions. Because I (usually) drink decaf, apparently people think I like weak coffee. One place I worked, my morning ritual was to dump out the watery half-strength muck someone...
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Rhymes with Gloom
Rumor has it Phoenix sees 360 days of sunshine a year. Anecdotal evidence suggests we could skip some of those during, say, June, but no, the few gloomy overcast days come in winter, no surprise. Best...
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A Winter of Sorts
You can tell when the conversation is running dry because the talk is all about the weather. Turned the heater on this morning for the first time since a 4-day stretch in December. It was 63º inside...
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Dry Heat
at least it’s a dry heat crematoriums, or would it be crematoria? they use dry heat so does the oven in the kitchen unless you’re using bain marie which is French for boiled with wet air a common cause...
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wading naked into my stream of consciousness
the sky is grey instead of blue that’s one thing here, the sky is almost always blue but that’s because it’s too hot for clouds they burn away before they’re born borne on the wind to somewhere else...
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