First Day Disaster

Snapped this pic with my phone on the way to St. Thomas. Sunsets from above can be great, too. We landed after dark and stayed at a semi-skeezy hotel near the airport, because we couldn’t check into the timeshare until the next afternoon. In the morning, we ate breakfast at a restaurant on the beach, which was lovely and warm….

Reading Stagnation

Spring seems to be officially here! Isn’t it lovely to see the flowers again? Over the weekend, I was catching David up on some of the discussions during the week about whether reading “literary” fiction is better for you. I told him about my blog posts on Careless Conclusions in Genre Reading and whether suffering is a human virtue. Okay,…

Not Running

I didn’t get good photos of the moonrise last night, but fortunately she hung around until I woke up this morning for a little repeat performance. I haven’t been getting to run on the treadmill this week. Yes, I know, I know, at one time in my life – hell, for a good chunk of my life so far –…

Lucky Me

I’m over at Word Whores today, talking about the Perfect Man.

The Happy Whacker

This is David happily using his new super-duper weed-whacker. See, we had a weed-whacker that we brought with us from Wyoming, but it was meant for stuff like, well, grass. Soft stuff. Not desert stuff. Desert stuff is all impenetrable woody stems and thorny exteriors. The plants guard their precious water stores by making it exceedingly difficult for anything to…