Picky Reader 19
Picky Reader's Latest Reads Live to Tell by Lisa Gardner. I think I’ve read every book Lisa Gardner has published. If you enjoy suspense, read her. Blood by Patricia Traxler…
Looking Forward
Another Blog-A-Week topic: (I didn’t save them all, only the ones I found interesting as possible topics.) “What are you looking forward to this year?” The first thing that comes…
Picky Reader – 17
Some more books I've read recently: Summer Blowout by Claire Cook. Just a note to myself that I read it. Thirty-something divorced hairdresser interacts with quirky family members while reluctantly…
Olive Garden
“It’s nine o’clock on a Saturday. The regular crowd shuffles in…” An evening at the local Olive Garden brings to mind those opening lines of Billy Joel’s Piano Man. Except…
WHY I BLOG
Courtesty of Wordpress’s Post-A-Week campaign, I now have a file full of blog topics. Sadly, however, my good intentions to post at least once a week have fallen by the…
Everyday Poetry – 3
Some More Snippets of Everyday Poetry: My Husband The Car ©2011 by Barbara Meyers I walk around him and I check him out This isn’t a used car I’m talking…
A Barista Bemoans
A Barista Bemoans 1. “I wanted that iced.” Usually spoken at the hand-off counter by a customer who doesn’t know the difference between an iced drink and a hot one…
Picky Reader – 15
God on a Harley by Joan Brady. This is the second Joan Brady book I’ve read, and maybe ? it’s the first she had published. It’s a short and simple…
Everyday Poetry – 2
Everyday Poetry – THIN AGAIN © 2010 by Barbara Meyers My skirt is too tight, oh what have I done? That party last night I shouldn’t have gone. Or if…
Ten Things I’m Sick Of:
1. ASPCA sad puppy commercials. 2. Inarticulate political pundits. 3. Comedians who aren’t funny, they’re just mean-spirited. (Calling those whose politics are different from yours nasty names isn’t comedy.) 4. Telemarketers. …