Facebook reminded me that I posted this last year.

"We've followed our road too far."

Text from The Left Hand of Darkness,by Ursula K LeGuin

Only 117 words, but the Christmas tree is up!

Facing the day like:

"Far over the misty mountains cold
To dungeons deep and caverns old
We must away ere break of day
To seek the pale enchanted gold."

- J R R Tolkien

Garlic soup, with croutons. Keeps the vampires away.

Happy Halloween 🎃

I'll share my goofy Dr Who Lego build here, partly because FB just reminded me and because it's my favorite metaphor for writing. When you start out the tools in your belt are few and not always the best, you just have an Idea. You improve with practice and your tools get better.

Edit and revise

Sometimes life is weird and messy and sometimes this is the view when you read your son Riddles in the Dark, for the first time.

"What hass it gots in it's pocketses.... Precioussss"

214 words! Was hoping for more, but apparently not today.

A readers always starts somewhere. Frequently, it's on the lap of their parents.

An old favorite, passed on and much re-read (aloud)

Nothing much, just ranger stuff with the kids

30 Minutes is not enough