Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2025 week 7
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fly-by-posting: 2025/02/17
They painted the plane orange! and then very green and gooey, like something out of Ghost Busters. Then the landing gear proceeded to cackle menacingly as we took off. (My daughter says the plane is now French.)
fly-by-posting: 2025/02/16
Why did the Denver Airport train announcement just pop into my head and start repeating on loop? It’s not supposed to be an earworm.
SSCS 03: Installment 7 of 35
Those Monsters We Have Dreamed About This is Installment 7 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘Those Monsters We Have Dreamed About’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! Previously… The brick of this wall was also crumbling, and out of the gaps – nearly every one I could see – there sprouted little, yellow dandelions, scraggly, with ragged, toothy leaves and bright, soft flowers….
Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2025 week 6
See Previous | See Next This week in my garden. (Where things are beginning to peek out, early or not.)
SSCS 03: Installment 6 of 35
Those Monsters We Have Dreamed About This is Installment 6 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘Those Monsters We Have Dreamed About’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! Previously… “Well, whatever you do, it will have to pull the entire template into a unified whole.” Now she gestured to the other corners. One looked like it held nothing so much as bird-like footprints of…
Writing Beginnings and Endings
How do you start a story? How do you end a story? These can be extremely vexing questions for any writer. But one thing anyone can remember when you hit this wall is that you were actually taught the best way to begin and end nearly any piece of writing in Middle School. Remember? Tell them what you’re going to tell them. Tell them. Then tell them what you told them. That, of course, sounds super-pedantic and boring, which is…
Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2025 week 5
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fly-by-posting: 2025/02/03 (w/pic)
Sometimes ice canyons on the side of the street are kinda cool looking. But, I have to say, they’re super extra cool looking when you’ve had a healthy dose of geology and/or planetary-science classes, and so are imagining you’re staring down at something like a diorama of another planet. (Go planetary science!)
fly-by-posting: 2025/01/31
You know you’re definitely not a kid anymore when you get home and can’t wait to open up the fridge for those left-over greenbeans calling to you.