Warm Again
Yesterday got warm. Nice and sunny. Time to don shorts. Sandals are all season ware. The animals did their obligatory sunbathing, all that was missing was tar beach and the baby oil. but they took their refreshments in the shade. The Ozmandians went to the local athletic center for their children’s swim lessons and their […]
Howling Fox
Last night, I had the bedroom windows open. I also had the blackout shades lifted, because Lisa is away and only Blue and I were in the bedroom. I love the twilight coming into the bedroom and gazing at the foothills in the distance. Throughout the night I kept being awakened by this howl that […]
Congratulations Colin Broderick
Yesterday, I learned that my dear literary brother and mentor, Colin Broderick, published his latest book (it seems he actually published it on Sunday, but his notices arrived to me yesterday – ahem). Now I had been blessed to read the many drafts as this story was being created over the past year, engaging in […]
Planetary Parade
In a rare astrological event, six planets, along with the last waning lunar sliver before the new moon, were in close proximity in our Northern Hemisphere last night. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/six-planets-will-align-in-the-night-sky-on-june-3-how-to-see-the-planetary-parade/ar-BB1nuron?ocid=BingNewsSerp Neptune, Mercury, Saturn, Mars, Jupiter, and Uranus (love that planet) all drew relatively near one another, bringing with it all kinds of astrological benefits. https://www.orialchemy.com/post/the-june-3rd-parade-of-planets-spiritual-and-astrological-significance The […]
Day Of Rest
Sunday is God’s day to rest. Obviously a perk just for the perfect creatures on this plane, or the Omnipotent, because while Casa Claire is as close to Eden as I may get, there is always something here for this imperfect creature to deal with. Even on Sunday. Yesterday was a water day. Trees, bird […]
Forty Months In – The Wise Ass Ebook Is Free Through The End Of August
It still feels like a dream. The Wise Ass, my debut novel, was published on February 18, 2021. Seems like yesterday. When you are in your late 60s, three years is a blink of the eye. Relativity. On April 16, 2024, just over 38 months later, the rest of the five book series, The Claire […]
The Claire Fatwa
For those of you fine, five readers who may just be tuning in to these blogs, the above is my lifelong nemesis, Brian Corry a/k/a “BC.” He is a founding member of the Old Fucker’s Club. And while he didn’t live with us – me, Joe Serrano and Mark Lenahan – at Aunt Violet’s Flop […]
When Life Imitates Art
So, there I was late yesterday afternoon, watering one of the cottonwood trees that grows by the Giants Causeway, that Lisa wanted me to cut down when we first arrived at Casa Claire, before she realized that elves lived there, when I heard ethereal singing coming from beside the house. I glanced up over the […]
Product Placement – Bigfoot & BC – Dave Buzan
Now yesterday’s blog concerned mainly how I went about decorating the landscape around Casa Claire to create the right whimsical and creative ambiance. There was nothing haphazard in those efforts. Each bit and piece told me where it needed to go. The entire blog was triggered by my receipt in the mail of a cool […]
Being Novel
I may never be considered great at any particular skill or accomplishment, and that’s okay, but I’ll be damned before I’ll ever be boring. Of course, I may be damned anyway, but it won’t be because I was found to be boring. I would rather be novel. I’ve always been a big fan of the […]