People are driving by my corner, waving and honking now as I sit out on the one remaining lawn chair. Twice I’ve lugged out two of the three better quality chairs and sat in them with friends and my husband.
But mostly its the one lonely chair sitting there empty. The day [...]

Just in from the garden. Counted 55 poppies ready to burst, one blooming, all the red-orange orientals. Everything about them is full of art – their loopy stems like surrealistic desk lamps, the reminder of John Wyndham in every bud, the way they blow gently in the wind, their short but brilliant lives, [...]

This is a letter I dispatched to the editor of our local paper yesterday as soon as I saw that 2 more lawn chairs had headed on down the road. At least this time nobody left me a rusty broken lawnmower in exchange. My upstairs tenant was sorry when I got it hauled off. She [...]

Came out of the garden after planting zinnias, glads, lilies, forgetmenots and cosmos to find 160 friend requests and 87 invites to gatherings in foreign parts I shall never see.
Again, the more friends you have, the more will be foisted upon you. If you want to collect friends fast, type in [...]

When you realize you actually don’t WANT to be famous, that the idea of the world beating a path to your door is horrifying, that you’ve got stuff that’s your very own to do, that you’re busy with what your life is about – that’s when you’ve got that good life.
Nothing [...]

Someone from Bing Site asked this and I couldn’t find the link to reply. So my answer, so far is My Comics (Go Comics). You have to read all the instructions carefully but there’s an engine that says when you’ve been successful at selecting the comic you want. You just click on Content and [...]

Right after posting about the horrors of Dog Eat Doug, yesterday’s panel was a small bird sitting on a fencepost from different camera angles. He says, “oooooo, the night is coming,” in a nice shot of green meadow, “the moon sings among the stars,” he says in a closeup, “the cats rustle in [...]

If more of us made a fuss about Comic Strips being an important part of the paper and not just fill, syndicates like ‘Creative’ wouldn’t be able to sell their cheap strips anywhere, cartoonists who really have something to say & show would do better and we’d be on the cutting edge of wonderful. (There’s [...]

After I wrote about Tony Cochran who draws Agnes, I felt badly. So I went and googled Tony. He DOES have a fan base who seem to like the comic, even want a doll made of her. His art at least is somewhat imaginative, tidy and not offensive. I suppose my complaint is that it [...]

Comics are the pulse of the world and have been since prehistoric days. They are the real indicator of what is going on. Back in the bad old days when I was sick a lot (before I knew I was celiac), when the pain came, I would lose my words. All that was [...]