After three (four?) years of an iPhone 5, I finally upgraded to an iPhone 7 Plus. It has all sorts of bells and whistles, but I bought it for its two lenses and superior photo-taking ability. It’s a bit of a learning curve as I found out this morning (there’s a User’s Guide–I need to […]
Every spring we have a kitchen battle with little black ants. We’ve never been able to find how they are arriving and thriving in the kitchen. It’s a continual case of chase and smash and as quickly as they arrive in the spring, they go away. Except yesterday there were a lot of them. I […]
This month’s topic: Are you ever emotionally drained when writing a scene and are your characters real to you? The short answers are yes and yes. But why? I must admit that being emotionally drained for me usually only occurs when I’ve written an emotionally intense scene between the characters. A denouement or […]