Rules: E.B. White had a book full of ’em and George Orwell boiled it down to six. Stephen King has a book of his own. It seems like when you start hanging around in writing circles, everyone has a few of their own and recite them like gospel. I don’t mean grammatical, syntactical rules, but …
Lucy came meowing around last night, and wanted to be let in. Bertie has shown a kind of protective interest in Lucy, and greeted her at the window. We let her in for a couple of hours. Torii hissed a bit, but Bertie looked after her. Gilda barely noticed. When I opened the back door …
Lucy has become a regular diner at our back deck. She’s even been inside a couple of times, and my wife has set up a nice little covered area where she can sleep and eat. It’s been raining a lot lately, so it’s not unusual to find Lucy tucked away in the corner of the …
The poet Burns wrote memorably about the best laid schemes of mice and men, which is that they gang aft agley. Truer words were never written. More than once have I set out with the best possible scheme laid out neatly before myself like an army cot, just to find myself moments later mid-agley, ganged …
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