Mostly Muppet

I was really struggling this evening with a clever post title, something akin to “Feed The Fish” or “Did You Remember To Feed The Fish”, but I settled on the above when I realized the source of our fish stress is related to an interloping frog who, until recently, was thought to have eaten at [...]

So yesterday morning I got Bump’s tweet that he was eating an apple fritter in protest of the absence of Flickr Donuts in Atlanta. Not knowing what Flickr Donuts were, I did some research. Here’s the relevant discussion and here’s the agent provocateur. More, more, more, more.
I’m kinda bummed now for a variety [...]

Did you ever wish you could turn off the voices in your head and your heart? Maybe just quiet them down a bit or convince them to discuss another topic so you can get down to the business at hand?
Yeah, me too.
I’m struggling today with an internal monologue (dialogue?) that says I should give [...]

One of my least endearing, most frustrating, self loathing-inducing characteristics is that I’m a procrastinator. Personally, professionally or otherwise you can rest assured that if I’m not jazzed about doing it, I’ll find a way to compartmentalize, push aside, forget about or generally move a project into a “to do; later” bucket.
Blogging, for me, [...]

The first Ficlet Friday that went well enough last week so this week’s entry, Shelter, is a welcome addition.
I started with a scene and a definite linear timeline but getting there was more tedious than I had imagined. Total writing time about 45 minutes.
I’ll get the negatives out of the way:

My “voice” is always [...]