Tag: conversation

  • Odd Prompts: It’s Never Espionage

    Odd Prompts: It’s Never Espionage

    A little something fun from today’s prompt, which I decided to play straight.  *** “It was a normal day until the penguins attacked.”  This was delivered in such a lugubrious tone that I turned to fully look at the speaker. “Is that the beginning of a wild story, or the world’s lamest passphrase?”  He looked…

  • Talking about Food

    Talking about Food

    I have to wonder, sometimes, why it seems like I talk about food and cooking so often. From a conversation with a coworker about making sausage (which segued into how much we love our Kitchenaid mixers), to a moment spent teaching a millennial how to make vanilla extract… Yes, that last was standing at the…

  • There was a delay

    There was a delay

    Yes, yes, this is slightly more than a mere delay. It was an interesting day. And then I was in class for eight hours. Which was more interesting toward the end while we were dissolving limestone in acid. I do have pictures, but until sometime tomorrow, I also have computer issues (ok, might be longer…

  • Snippetless

    I don’t have a snippet today. For almost a year, is it? No, can’t be that long! Maybe six months, there has been a snippet of my fiction here in the Sunday blog post. Today, I don’t have one. I’m not ready to snippet The God’s Wolfling, although I have a few thousand words of…