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Wild Bird Wednesday 724 - Verditer Flycatcher - The Verditer Flycatcher (*Eumyias thalassinus*) looks like a bird that has been created by AI - but it truly is real! This individual - it was the only one...

The Truth About Time That Most of Us Avoid Facing - *“The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.” ~Oprah Winfrey* My father died at forty-nine. I was young when it happened, st...

Bait by Eugenia Ladra - Bait by Eugenia Ladra Uruguayan Fiction Original title – Carnada Translator – Miriam Tobin Source – Review copy I was lucky to have been sent this book f...

Empty-landed - the right to be other than I used to be depends upon having nothing that is mine and some may think a place is missing when it is only put in another place...

Yesteryear, or My Fantasy Is Better Than Your Fantasy - Well, Yesteryear is an odd duck of a book, isn’t it? It’s been a massive hit, the buzziest book of the year so far, and this because of its concept: a disl...

Ferrari 365 GTS Classic Beauty - A timeless masterpiece showcasing elegance and power.

Ursula K. Le Guin on the Meaning of Life - We are the survivors of immense and minute events — violent cosmic collisions and subtle genetic mutations, the deaths of innumerable suns and the births o...

Upma Just The Way I Like It, and Refrigerator Pickles - June is here and it has been oddly cool. Summer will heat up for sure, but for now, we are enjoying the temperate weather and the bluest of skies. Backyard...

Skywatch Friday - 4 June 2026 - [image: San Antonio Sunrise] Years ago, I was at a business conference in San Antonio, Texas. Early one morning, I looked out my window and the rising son ...

Poetry in the Harbour, June 10th, Nanaimo - Looking forward to reading on June 10th @ Poetry in the Harbour reading series, hosted by Nanaimo Poet Laureate Neil Surkan. I will be reading from Scar/ci...

Gathering - gatheringthe strength to heal…hazel tree

Book of the month: Iris Wolff - Last month I had the honour of introducing the Indie Press Network’s spring showcases, two virtual events presenting some of the key titles coming out from...

Writing week 04 - Unnecessary updates.

Mémoire - Invisible dureté, impénétrable, de la pierre. Enfermé dans le passé, la fable amère. Coincés dans un sourire, mon vide amant. Ensemble l’équilibre se per...

An Updated Case for A Rightsized Life - A couple of weeks ago Thom and I drove to our house in Southern California that we had called “home” for sixteen years. Even though we called that prope...

Nordic Nightmares – cover and table of contents - I’m so happy to show you the gorgeous cover of the forthcoming anthology Nordic Nightmares- Best of Nordic Horror, and … Continue reading →

reading, singing, and watching - I'll be reading "Let There Be Fashioning" on the Thursday, April 30 Rattlecast. (The show had to be delayed from Monday because of a tech outage.) The prom...

New Story Day: Welcome To Heroism - Beloved readers, I’ve got a new short story for you! Today “Welcome To Heroism” went live at Uncanny Magazine. It follows a mysterious app called The Da...

The Whispering Dead by David Mark My rating: 5 of 5 stars Not sure when I first read this, plus it was a free upload of just a short introduction On reading the paperback, what followed seemed to me out of step and it took a while to readjust, but once I accepted the espionage element it was arresting. Only wish I'd also remembered to re-read 'The Burying Ground' first.re-read 2026, and because it is one of several on my bookshelves whose powerful opening chapter is capable of entering my mind and luring me to re-read, I did so again. And again forgot to begin with 'The Burying Ground' View all my reviews -

Make do or Mend? - As a child boots, shoes like clothes in general were never considered a fashion item. Season and suitability was the deciding factor. Wellington boots and ...

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When did you last go to the library? - During an idle afternoon on a recent trip to Trivandrum, I visited the State Central Library. Inside the stately Gothic building, a uniformed official was ...

Old English Ivy - old English ivya sudden urge to run wildat seventy-somethingthe wind in my hair Poem only published in The Tanka Society of America Anthology 2023 ***** **...

Collected Novellas, released March 2025. Early reviews - Book Release March 2025 Collected Novellas is published by Unsolicited Press isbn 978-1-963115-98-7 From story-telling author and poet, S.B. Borgersen...

Ontario Gothic: Morgan’s Castle by Jan Hilliard (1964) - Morgan’s Castle by Jan Hilliard ~ 1964. This edition: Ace, circa 1960s/1970s. Paperback. 142 pages. Look at that – it’s the last day of January already. I ...

The Watchlist: January 2025 - From Columbia University Press | Elephant Herd by Zhang Guixing, translated from the Chinese by Carlos Rojas | Fiction | 240 pages | ISBN 9780231211697 |...

Lighthouse Pieces - 09.30 Xnd XIV/ Flash Fiction/ WDYS 256/ The Lighthouse Losernd 10.01 XXIV/ Flash Fiction/ WDYS 256 / Losing the Lighthouse (part 2) The Lighthouse Loser O...

Not Gone - Not altogether… I stopped updating my blog Conscious Entities some time ago after many years of posts and discussion. I have no plans to reinstate it in an...

5 Fun Things to Do In Siem Reap - Yes, you’re going to Siem Reap to see the temples of Angkor. But take it from someone who has been visiting for over 20 years, there’s more to Siem Reap th...

2 Drafts - Time Machine He leaned in, blue curtains drawn around them like big sky, he reached her. The bed bent upright and crooked; machines beeped. She wrapped h...

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Is Separation an Excuse for Cheating When You’re Still Married? - When you are separated but still legally married, dating others can be considered cheating depending on the terms of your The post Is Separation an Excus...

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Spinoff the book of the year - I'm ending the year with gratitude to the readers and reviewers who enjoyed my debut novel *Between the Flags* (Cuba Press) and giving thanks to The Spin...

Summer's End, New Beginnings - We're back in Montreal after two weeks in central New York working on the lake house. It needs a new roof -- this time I went up there with J. to take a lo...

New Science Nonfiction Review: Blight - Summary: A fascinating book that is both informative and full of great stories. Although humans have most recently experienced a viral pandemic, many of th...

Not So Perfect Strangers by L.S. Stratton - Tasha Jenkins is returning to her abusive husband for the sake of her teenage son when Madeline Gingell runs up to her in traffic and bangs on her window, ...

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Poem: Bird / Rose / Moon - My poem Bird/Rose/Moon, which appears in the winter 2023 issue of Indianapolis Review, belongs to an ongoing project that responds to contemporary poems an...

FUEL anthology publication day! - It's publication day for the anthology I edited, FUEL: 75 prizewinning flash fictions by authors around the globe raising funds to fight #FuelPoverty!...

die Ohrenentzündung - Ei jei jei! Just when I thought I had things in hand ... a dastardly ear infection turned into laryngitis and a sinus issue.So no special festivities (and...

How reading and writing haiku opens up a whole new world of beauty and more in Nature through the language of haiku…like how it did mine and other poets who responded to Charlotte Digregorio’s call for sharing theirs in her blog: www.charlottedigregorio.wordpress.com, (post of July 21 - www.charlottedigregorio.wordpress.com

On my way to buy a paper #102 - Early morning, squeezed betwixt kerbstone and black tarmac of the road, a solitary poppy. Eight inches tall, scarlet petals damp and creased: impossible...

Not yet, but soon… - In my pondering over the aesthetics of joy this month I was intrigued to find that the idea of anticipation is often a factor in our experience of joy. Exp...

A brief encounter - Probably just a handful of you know how gregarious I am that person who talks to strangers on the train, in the supermarket queue or as yesterday in the st...

The Thing About ‘STEM’ - When I was young, I got the impression very early that I should go into science and be good at math. It’s actually one of my earlier memories: if I could b...

The Lonely Robot - The robot had been left behind. In one moment, he was still mining and not paying attention, in the next his masters had left the planet and he was all by ...

[sponsored] How Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Technology Is Changing the Online Gambling Industry - Blockchain and cryptocurrency technologies are emerging and taking over existing industries. Blockchain is a decentralized system to keep track of data. ...

Review: D (A Tale of Two Worlds) - Dhikilo is a young orphan from Somaliland (not to be confused with Somalia, which everyone she meets does) growing up in a very English home in a very En...

The Netherlands opens borders for Serbia and for Montenegro - The Netherlands has followed the advice of the EU to lift ban on entry for several countries. The list of countries will be reviewed every two weeks, or ...

- banks and mills, chimneys and wemmicks, civilisation and chicanery afternoon, yorkshire

The Truth or Something Like It - by Tommy Vollman I met Joe Nuxhall a few weeks after my fifteenth birthday. His hands were gnarled, and he spoke as though his mouth was half fu...

Blackball Readers and Writers Festival 2020 - I'm very happy to have been invited to take part in the second Blackball Readers and Writers Festival at Queen's Birthday Weekend. Below is info about the ...

1760 - snowthis room of silveredwhite gold/silver

There are daisies in the lawn - There are daisies in the lawn and a dandelion or two, primroses and celandines stand out here and there violets just peeping through. Catkins on the hazel ...

Words Matter: The Lateral Learnings of a Writer - As a writer and editor and sometimes book reviewer, I pick up some nuggets through casual conversations, some word that flies in the air, or a work I s...

Mammwyn is a name name derived from the Cornish for... - Mammwyn is a name name derived from the Cornish for grandmother. I am now publishing my artist bookworks under this imprint.

New site, late goodbye - Hello, Friends! Observation: I am not actively blogging here anymore, but I never said goodbye. I have never been great at goodbyes. But I'm not trying to...

Vereinigung - Honoured that *der Tagesspiegel* selected my story "Unification" to appear in their 22 July issue. "Vereinigung" by Nora Nadjarian, translated into German ...

Happy Birthday to Hen - Another year, another July 11, another summer day of sticking my hands into the soil and rooting around with the roses and missing you. I whip butter and ...

Sustainable Harvesting and the Alaskan Foodie - *By Vivian Mork Yeilk' My mother squished a blueberry and put it in my mouth. Everything was new. I was new. She walked me through the forest, setting m...

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A Strambotto - Monday, May 6, 2019 #the100dayproject

‘Tis Always the Season for Shortbread Cookies - In my family, Christmas just isn’t Christmas without shortbread cookies. Both my parents loved cooking and baking, but my father and I usually made the sho...

Dead Organic Matter - You’re told to own your words. But if this was written in first person, how would you ever be held accountable? mockingbird song picking cuticles until the...

2018 Reflections: Reading, Writing, Rituals - *Reading* Another reading year gone by. While I haven't been on the blog much, it has been a rich year for books, with some of my favorites of the year p...

the blue collection 9: Home (Winter 2018 / 18.10) - the blue collection 9: Home (Winter 2018 / 18.10) Home featuring DeMisty D. Bellinger J. P. Dancing Bear Nicholas Fairclough David Heg Ted Mc Ca...

that same lake, the far shore - The book of prairie is broad with stories and platters of bottom land, bald eagles in the cottonwoods waiting for another day to fly. This is how we know a...

“In the Alcoholic’s Apartment, A Time Machine” by Chelsea Dingham - Clearly, I am a horrible blogger. But a lovely thing happened to me today, which is that Lisa Mecham stumbled on this old post of mine about her poem “Revi...

Getting Ready to Dive - A lovely spring morning here...at last! Seems like it's been weeks, months since we've had a mild, blue sky morning. I walked the big loop to the river a...

on travelling - There are things you miss, travelling Absent things recalled I miss having my own coffee up, buying machined hot brown something No anticipatory smell from o...

Rudrapur - Rudrapur, is a city in Uttarkhand (uttara-northern, khand-land). The city is located in the fertile Terai region of northern India that is crisscrossed by ...

Veera Narayana Temple, Belavadi - Veera Narayana Temple located in Belavadi is an ancient 12th century temple carved in soapstone. This temple comprising of three shrines was built during ...

this blog continues... at blueprint21.de - I finally put a new version of my website together, it also includes a blog page. If you browse to: *blueprint21.de/blog* you arrive at a nicely sorte...

New painting, small oil on wood panel: ‘Early Morning Moon’ - New painting, small oil on wood panel: ‘Early Morning Moon’

Punctuation & my pig tale - The New York Times isn't alone in making me ill over its colon usage. But I adore the Times and read it faithfully, so I’m daily aggrieved. The usage I d...

Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift - This is a book I thought for a long time I HAD read, and for some reason, I was sure that it's an easy read. Ha-ha-ha. No, I mean, it IS funny sometimes...

My sister gave me the Wealth of Nations with a note saying “merry christmas you capitalist pig” -

LITERATURE: Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children - Honestly hadn’t heard of this novel by Ransom Riggs until I saw the trailer for the Tim Burton movie and of course, was fascinated by it. While well-writte...

Goodbye blog - I am switching to a new website. I'll leave this blog live for another month or so, after that I'll take it offline. I hope you'll find my new abode pleas...

Bearing Witness--The Wall - Today they started building The Wall. When I woke this morning and went down to the kitchen, Mum and Dad weren’t there. I followed the low murmur of the ...

2017 Category Challenge - *Challenge Summary: * To encourage ourselves to “read outside the box,” in this group we (each) pick (our own) categories to read within. You can have as m...

Congratulations: Airini Beautrais wins Landfall Essay Competition 2016 - Originally posted on NZ Poetry Shelf: ? Airini Beautrais has been named the winner of the 2016 Landfall Essay Competition for her essay ‘Umlaut’. Competiti...

End - With long stride across worn path the poet goodbyes April, the month of words.

Then we went to Barcelona - I am dismayed by the many adverse changes that occur as we age, and also aware that virtually all of them were predicted (accurately) by people we knew who...

Ring of Fire by Mary Eliza Crane - At the wane of a long season of heat filled yellow sky, fire consumes mountain forests infested, decimated by bark beetles feasting in their own changing w...

literary hashtags on twitter: #amreading #shortstory #sixwords #longreads #worldliterature & more - *"Some of the most interesting and useful hashtags on Twitter are designed to build community in the far-flung literary world..."* ...noted Salon Magazi...

From Bookworm to Social Butterfly - Originally posted on YA Author Rendezvous: Written by Julie Tuovi The eReader was a great invention for YA fiction-addicted adults everywhere—for those who...

New Website Launched - Visit me here. Be in touch.

LIFE’S WEAVING - by M.E.Mixer With wondrous skill, in the crowded mill, The spinner her shuttle plies, And watches the web with fear and dread As it forms beneath her eye...

Decoding Static Relaunching Soon - Decoding Static home to the writing, art and photography of Andy Harrod. Including the books, Living Room Stories and tearing at thoughts and the art proje...

Interview with Rami Shamir - Today I'm posting Part One of my interview with *Rami Shamir*, in the last 29 hours of a Kickstarter campaign for his novel TRAIN TO POKIPSE. This expl...

Resurrecting Those Old Works - Has this happened to you? You read a story or poem online that you enjoy. Wanting to read more from this writer, you follow the link to his or her blog or ...

Rencana Samsung Bangun Pabrik di Vietnam Sudah Direstui - Rencana Samsung Electronic Vietnam membangun pabrik ponsel kedua di bagian utara negara tersebut, telah mendapatkan lampu hijau. [image: Rencana Samsung Ban...

STERN by Jane Hammons - New photography up at Revolution John Magazine : the cement ship in Monterey Bay, Seacliff State Beach, Aptos, CA.

Auch bei Vodafone Tarifen mit Prepaid-Funktion kann man seine Rufnummer mitnehmen - […]

The Reasonable Ogre - Much as I appreciate retellings of fairytales, reading new ones is an altogether different pleasure; especially when these are fairytales for adults or m...

La Paloma Amarilla - Like all drunks, we wake up laughing. Then we lie there for a long time, not moving. “I don’t want to move,” says K. “I’ll find out how drunk I still am.” ...

Beberapa Objek Wisata Pulau Lombok Yang Wajib Anda Kunjungi - *Pulau Lombok*, siapa yang tak kenal dengan pulau yang indah nan mempesona ini. Pulau Lombok bisa jadi merupakan pulau yang menjadi saingan Pulau Bali di ...

Addicts & Basements by Robert Vaughan - Originally posted on GIANT READER: by Brian Alan Ellis Addicts & Basements by Robert Vaughan Civil Coping Mechanisms, February 2014 142 pages / $13.95 Buy...

- *Three Things I Don’t Write **(and Three Things I Do)* Jason E. Rolfe tagged me to participate in this exercise. (Well, I asked him, and he said yes.) He...

Albuquerque Biopark - [image: Metal sculptures and living plants] Metal sculptures and living plants

- Reopening soon in new premises. Maybe.

Paw Prints in the Sand - Day 77 Listening to: Dance Hall Days Thought for the day: One small paw print for man. One giant leap for man’s spirit! Many of you are like me in that I’m...

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The return of the Not.. - Just a quick note to Not heads out there who wonder what's been up. You're about to see some changes at the Not as my focus shifts from fiction to pop-cul...

blueprint new year blogroll - *BluePrint Blog Roll* notes + photos reflections + reviews postcards + quotes & much more from around the world. enjoy ~

Mangroves save one Philippine coastal town from the worst of Typhoon Haiyan - From PRI’s program The World, Michael Holtz reports: Mangroves form low-lying thickets that hug the shore of coastal areas in tropical regions around the w...

Sunday Sniffles and Surprise Baskets - This morning I woke up and peeked out the bedroom window. Rain. And it was cold. And my nose was clogged on one side. And it was hard to breathe. And so I ...

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Bathing Palace - Szechenyi Baths, Budapest, Hungary

I’m back! - So you may or may not have noticed my complete disappearing act. Many months ago I disappeared from book blogging, not because of lack of interest but lack...

Blog moved to Wordpress - My main blog is now Poetry Notes and Jottings on Wordpress. Updates for 2013 will be visible there.

Intrepid Explorer - The Intrepid Explorer recounts his travels for the benefit of subscribers to the *Magazine of the Museum of Everything, *who enjoy his accounts of unreli...

Return from Lethe - Engulfed by black ripples of forgetfulness, beyond the fallen towers of the night toppled by the moon’s delivering rays, to the hidden boats of weariness a...

Lake Rebecca Park Preserve - Very green through the area, and everything growing thick making it hard to bushwack through the non-path areas. The raccoons climb higher into the trees, ...

On The Wires > qarrtsiluni / Animals in the City - They woke me up at the crack of dawn. Looked out my window. Here’s what I (heard and) saw … On the Wires now live at qarrtsiluni in the ‘Animals in the Cit...

viewmasters and earthquakes - Fellow Travelers: I wake up from the semi-hibernation of late December and realize January is well underway. On Friday the 4th, nearing midnight, a 7.5 ear...

I joined a challenge or two. - I like to be challenged. I like having a goal to work toward. I love reading. Can you see where this is going? I've signed up for some reading challenges. ...

34 - The space they are in is years long. Two, they hover on a threshold. One reaches to touch the other. The hand goes through. Waves radiate. The past is...

Hey, it’s only been a year… - Maybe more than a year. But, here is a new blog update, at last and finally. Mostly this is just to say I’m joining the “7 Continents, 7 Billion people, 7...

Highlight: Deniz Utlu in translation - For this special highlight in our final highlight series this month, we have a collection of five “minimals from the … Continue reading →

Blog Carnival 6: All About Frankfurt - We said Carnival 5: A VIEW FROM HERE was the last Blog Carnival, but when we saw the photos, links and updates from Frankfurt, we knew we had to put togeth...

Day #100 Domino -

Low Road - Day 100 The sun shone through the window. A young girl was sitting on a chair listening to her ipod. It was once her mothers. Her father had saved her life...

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100/100 For dragon eggs? - Shall we open the door? What story, the old or the new? We have lived so long and so well In our green fable Shall we open the doors? [from ‘Uranium 2’...

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july testing - just testing in July

Kaffe in Katmandu Says Goodbye - It’s been a psychedelic ride with you guys, thank you for all the fun and the faces and so much dada during 2011, but after one year and infinite degrees...

New - It's that time of year again when we say goodbye to the old and say hello to the new. This is a favourite time of year from me as it's a chance for me to r...

Street Scenes - Our street was a desolate, one-way suburban enclave smack in the middle of the town center. Next to it lay the busiest main road at the time, the susurrati...

#100/100 Window - This photo was originally published on YB Poetry blog in June 2011. All other photos--the ones taken by me--I've post...

Sahabat Anak Leaving Party - Sadly, as my teaching contract draws to a close in Indonesia, it is time to say goodbye to my beloved friends and students from Sahabat Anak, Prumpung. As ...

Hibernation - is a sweet thing–concerns darkness, being afraid. A leather building? I have been hibernating in January–just a note to say I haven’t for...

Of Bitches and Bastards - Okay, so I'm on my own now. There's a lot of stuff I need to learn how to do, and not just home maintenance stuff that used to fall on Dan. I've got al...

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Lens-Artists #401 – Focus on the Subject Revisited - “What matters most is to focus on what matters most.” Roy T. Bennett This week Patti delves into some of the approaches photographers use to create images ...

The unbearable heaviness of being - The unbearable heaviness of being…in chronic pain That was going to be my blog post this week. That I found out there are no surgical fixes for my damaged ...

October 2026 Utah Guided Backpacking Trips! - Learn to make a cross-country route in caltopo. Navigate remote canyons, scramble on slickrock, hike in streams. Follow use trails and sleep on warm sand u...

Happy Birthday to Hen - Another year, another July 11, another summer day of sticking my hands into the soil and rooting around with the roses and missing you. I whip butter and ...

this blog continues... at blueprint21.de - I finally put a new version of my website together, it also includes a blog page. If you browse to: *blueprint21.de/blog* you arrive at a nicely sorte...

Home! - I flew home yesterday. Dan picked me up from the airport. I leaped into his arms. Home looms, and folds me back in right away. I cuddled my goat. I slept i...

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