Will Yerbie Outgrow Kittenhood?
April 26, 2009
If he lives long enough. He may be using up his nine lives, but I hope I can save my little buddy, lol!
He broke a lamp and he learned how to break into the cabinet to get his treats. Can Yerbie be too smart for his own good? Tune in, lol!
Plotting Stories by the “W”
April 26, 2009
Growing up, the Big W was a place to find treasure in the 1962 movie a Mad Mad Mad Mad World. Today my RWA Chapter, Saguaro Romance Writers presented a workshop by Karen Docter, a Denver writer who uses what she calls the W. Click on her website and see if she will do a workshop for your group or purchase the workshop.
It makes plotting a story much more straightforward. You get a map with ups and downs to get where you are going. Long day, but educational.
A Pirate, Horror!
April 22, 2009
This is a line from the Gilbert and Sullivan Operetta, The Pirates of Penzance. No proper Cornish ladies would be on a beach in Somalia, though.
Well Capt. Phillips was heroically rescued and the surviving pirate was brought to New York for trial.
BBC America News had this as the lead story and explained the irony that this kid could be tried, spend a few years in an American prison, then claim asylum. Why? Because there is no functioning government in Somalia (well for most of its history, there never really was).
It does not seem as though the pirates will be deterred anytime soon. If you pay the ransom, it is certainly lucrative, if you kill them, the Puntland area of Somalia is so poor, piracy is still worth the risk. We could always co opt them and make the security consultants lol! They could be the Blackwater of that region lol!
Who wouldda thunk the ancient land of the Queen of Sheba would come to this, the Land of Punt for those who want to read Ancient History and the Bible.
Maybe, they could be replaced with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers or the Pittsburgh Pirates. Ahoy mateys, etc…More tongue in cheek silliness.
Men and Romance Novels?
April 9, 2009
Leading up to the Tucson Book Festival, Saguaro Romace Writers has had a series of workshops. Yesterday, I was on one of the panels and did men and Romance Novels.
You can still be rugged and romantic. John Wayne’s relationship with his wife, Pilar. President Andrew Jackson’s relationship with his wife Rachel, with people accusing him of being a bigamist. President Jackson was not called “Old Hickory” for nothing. Calling him names to his face could get you killed, (and for one man did get him killed).
As an example, when I was a kid, the Rams player Roosevelt Grier was tough as nails and he did Needlepoint. Would you tell Rosey Grier he as a wuss for doing needlepoint. How fast can you run?! LOL!
If men were not Romantic, where would many of our stories come from?
Yerbie Had a Rough Day.
April 9, 2009
First the cactus wrens were making him crazy. He tried to charge through the back window. Then he was bothering Elaine and she yelled at him. Next thing I knew, there he was on her desk in the Arizona Room sulking. The cat put himself in time out, lol!
I have a single dice from my old job that makes noise. Then he playwed with that and more straws and his life went sort of back to normal. Or as normal as Yerbie gets.
He is fun, but I am not sure I could handle two of him.
Katty Kay and Ted Koppel
April 2, 2009
K and K, the new dynamic duo on the BBC America News. Tonight, they discussed the G20 summit, with Ted Koppel saying, most Americans only care about it in an abstract sense. I can’t disagree. We are more concerned about the local effect, can I pay my mortgage and car loan, what about my job? etc.
Matt Frei normally has some good lines and he had one tonight during the story about the First Lady. The First Lady was a major hit in London and by the way, her husband came to. That and Banks Behaving Badly, though I think that way Katty’s line.
