D M Gordon
@dmgordon.com
Reader, novelist, poet, editor, citizen. www.dmgordon.com Dogged by dogs. The ancient goldfish aswim in my kitchen says O, O, O when it sees me, god of clean water, sprinkling dried insects from heaven. Holding tight to #wonder & #kindness.
Further research on biscuits for my friend's West Texas Novel Launch, the whole audience treated to a cowgirl breakfast—coffee, peach jam and biscuits. These, "Butter Swim Biscuits." It's mad science, ridiculously decadent, easy, and yummy. Science! cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1025...
November 11, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Further research on biscuits for my friend's West Texas Novel Launch, the whole audience treated to a cowgirl breakfast—coffee, peach jam and biscuits. These, "Butter Swim Biscuits." It's mad science, ridiculously decadent, easy, and yummy. Science! cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1025...
A #poem today.
Addressed to a friend who, diagnosed with #cancer and still healthy enough, stopped living. Thinking how Catholic School taught us to live with death every day. One of those life lessons one needs to learn over and over.
From Nightly at the Institute of the Possible. #poetry
Addressed to a friend who, diagnosed with #cancer and still healthy enough, stopped living. Thinking how Catholic School taught us to live with death every day. One of those life lessons one needs to learn over and over.
From Nightly at the Institute of the Possible. #poetry
November 9, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Sometimes I should remember to look straight up. What was over my head.
November 7, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Sometimes I should remember to look straight up. What was over my head.
A practice batch of buttermilk biscuits—for a friend's cowgirl breakfast with the launch of her West Texas novel.
November 7, 2025 at 1:54 PM
A practice batch of buttermilk biscuits—for a friend's cowgirl breakfast with the launch of her West Texas novel.
Something about Brio's bear....
November 4, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Something about Brio's bear....
Went looking for happy this morning on Bluesky, needing it, but this hour, found a tsunami of hate, anger and frustration as deep as I scroll, emotions running high...and how not?
Sending something to pause upon. A burst of late color.
Sending something to pause upon. A burst of late color.
November 4, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Went looking for happy this morning on Bluesky, needing it, but this hour, found a tsunami of hate, anger and frustration as deep as I scroll, emotions running high...and how not?
Sending something to pause upon. A burst of late color.
Sending something to pause upon. A burst of late color.
"“They were careless people,” F.Scott Fitzgerald wrote of the Gatsby set, “they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
November 2, 2025 at 12:01 PM
"“They were careless people,” F.Scott Fitzgerald wrote of the Gatsby set, “they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
Why "Jack-o-lanterns"? One possibility, an Irish folk tale about Jack who tricked the Devil, cursed to wander earth, forever denied heaven or hell, given a burning ember from hell to light his way, which he placed inside a carved-out turnip. He became known as "Jack of the Lantern."
October 31, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Why "Jack-o-lanterns"? One possibility, an Irish folk tale about Jack who tricked the Devil, cursed to wander earth, forever denied heaven or hell, given a burning ember from hell to light his way, which he placed inside a carved-out turnip. He became known as "Jack of the Lantern."
Didn't plan it, but tonight, deep into winter dark, unseen creatures screeching and scritching in the woods, coyotes howling, far from costumed children seeking candy, I'll finish Dracula, spectacularly inventive in 1897, so much we now take for granted. It's been a trip.
October 31, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Didn't plan it, but tonight, deep into winter dark, unseen creatures screeching and scritching in the woods, coyotes howling, far from costumed children seeking candy, I'll finish Dracula, spectacularly inventive in 1897, so much we now take for granted. It's been a trip.
October 30, 2025 at 5:57 PM
My Office Assistant has returned from her break.
October 29, 2025 at 1:12 PM
My Office Assistant has returned from her break.
Poised on the brink of November. There's a message here, but I'm not sure what it is.
October 28, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Poised on the brink of November. There's a message here, but I'm not sure what it is.
The colors have been muted this year but still beautiful. The oaks, the last to turn, are in the foreground and I just missed the sun popping the little red dogwood. (Light is everything.) Then comes the yellow tulip tree and dark copper beech in the center. The blue, blue sky.
October 27, 2025 at 12:31 PM
The colors have been muted this year but still beautiful. The oaks, the last to turn, are in the foreground and I just missed the sun popping the little red dogwood. (Light is everything.) Then comes the yellow tulip tree and dark copper beech in the center. The blue, blue sky.
Lots of tiny poppyseed ticks around right now... somehow.
Don't forget your Insect Shield clothes while in the leaves.
You don't want #LymeDisease or coinfections, folks. They're nasty.
Brio and Luna have tick jackets. Any little bit helps.
www.insectshield.com/collections/...
#dogs #ticks
Don't forget your Insect Shield clothes while in the leaves.
You don't want #LymeDisease or coinfections, folks. They're nasty.
Brio and Luna have tick jackets. Any little bit helps.
www.insectshield.com/collections/...
#dogs #ticks
October 26, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Lots of tiny poppyseed ticks around right now... somehow.
Don't forget your Insect Shield clothes while in the leaves.
You don't want #LymeDisease or coinfections, folks. They're nasty.
Brio and Luna have tick jackets. Any little bit helps.
www.insectshield.com/collections/...
#dogs #ticks
Don't forget your Insect Shield clothes while in the leaves.
You don't want #LymeDisease or coinfections, folks. They're nasty.
Brio and Luna have tick jackets. Any little bit helps.
www.insectshield.com/collections/...
#dogs #ticks
Last Saturday, a big crowd in my small town wanting better for America.
October 25, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Last Saturday, a big crowd in my small town wanting better for America.
Look who was at the local park....
October 23, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Look who was at the local park....
The very last of the summer's tomatoes, brought in after the last frost and ripened on the vine. Oh, soooo sweet.
October 22, 2025 at 12:12 PM
The very last of the summer's tomatoes, brought in after the last frost and ripened on the vine. Oh, soooo sweet.
My Creativity Assistant
October 21, 2025 at 12:15 PM
My Creativity Assistant
Re-reading Dracula, the elegant Victorian prose, the sexuality, the antiquated attitudes and originality of the initial creation. A movie has never captured it for all the times they've tried, not really. Cool cover.
#novel #literary #vampires #Victorian #horror #Halloween
#novel #literary #vampires #Victorian #horror #Halloween
October 20, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Re-reading Dracula, the elegant Victorian prose, the sexuality, the antiquated attitudes and originality of the initial creation. A movie has never captured it for all the times they've tried, not really. Cool cover.
#novel #literary #vampires #Victorian #horror #Halloween
#novel #literary #vampires #Victorian #horror #Halloween
This was on the bottom of my case of TP. ❤️ this company trying to solve ecological issues.
"If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito."
Keep at it you little mosquito, your buzz matters! "
"If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito."
Keep at it you little mosquito, your buzz matters! "
October 19, 2025 at 11:48 AM
This was on the bottom of my case of TP. ❤️ this company trying to solve ecological issues.
"If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito."
Keep at it you little mosquito, your buzz matters! "
"If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito."
Keep at it you little mosquito, your buzz matters! "
This morning, dawn, wild turkeys grazing.
October 17, 2025 at 12:23 PM
This morning, dawn, wild turkeys grazing.
October 16, 2025 at 4:28 PM
