Life and Sunshine

Monday dawns again to a bright sunny day and an aching shoulder. Again. I’ve been back to my physical therapy exercises and they help for a while. I had a few days when both shoulders, my elbows and my hands ached. I have no idea why, but such is life and it impacts writing. At […]

Why I Named My Heroine After a Mongoose

This week Rue Allyn joins us with some literary facts behind her fiction: why she named her female character after a male mongoose. According to Google’s AI, “Rikky is a feminine name that evolved as a diminutive or variant spelling of Ricki, which itself originated as a nickname for names like Erica, Richelle, or Patricia.” However, […]

I See

And I see well. I just had a follow up appointment. Post cataract surgery, my vision is 20-20 without glasses. My goodness! And I see my yard full of flowers and flowering trees. (Oh joy!) and beds with encroaching weeds (rats). I see my old vegetable bed going to weed (and more rats). A light-bulb […]