[Write the Story] Old Friends Meet Over Coffee
Prompt: Old Friends Meet Over Coffee Words: Algonquin, amazement, elm, tobacco, hiss, digress, echo, immense, quiet, opaque Story “How’d you find this place?” Sharon had to raise her voice over the hiss of the espresso machine. “The Algonquin Coffee Company was on the Bucket List Top 10.” Rachel handed Sharon a bowl sized mug of […]
[Write the Story] Starting Over in a New Place
Prompt: Starting Over in a New Place Words: Dubai, fedora, sienna, befriend, grate, listen, heiress, twinge, mute, charcoal Story “You’re going to be fine, Sienna. This is your grand adventure. You’re going to be great.†“Thanks, I think. Oops!†I stumbled over a grate in the street. I caught my fedora before it could fly […]
In the “WANT!, WANT!”
Ed sent me the link to this shirt.. I may have to spend the $17.95 +$4.95 s/h. It’s too perfect. Since it combines a character I write and coffee, it’s almost a business deduction. 😎 Okay, so it’s not, but it’s darned cool. The other shirts are cute, but this is the one that speaks […]
On Friday, Electricity, Automatically Flushing Toilets, and Other Randomness
I’ve been meaning to post most of the week because I have the spiffy new set ups and stuff – and the cross-posting feature… but… I share today’s Bob the Squirrel because our area’s had weird power issues resulting in long outages and folks talking solar panels. We’ve been fortunate. Don’t worry — I’m fully […]
And the Winner Is…
Ed won the Maguffin Contest. The story will be done and resubmitted this afternoon. And because I found it amusing, not because I recommend it — unless we’re talking COFFEE or other forms of caffeine…
Back ONLINE…
This should just go to show that even writers make phenomenally bad mistakes… hence the title of my last post… Geez… FenCon was a blast. It was insanely exhausting. And now we get to start planning 2009. Our guests were amazing. Hugs to them all. They all went above and beyond. The auctions went well […]
I *Heart* My Starbucks Crew!!!!
Discliamer: It’s not the COFFEE at Starbucks I *heart*. It’s the morning shift at MY Starbucks location on North Collins and Lamar. I *heart* my Starbucks morning crew. Especially this morning (drat that Wil Wheaton guy). I didn’t sleep as well as I should’ve last night. I knew I had to get up a bit […]