BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. I was supposed to be on crutches this week, but couldn’t afford them so am using my hiking stick to lean on. I was supposed to not put weight on my one foot, but I have to get up and down the stairs to get food and water, so I […]
A friend wrote that rather than do any kind of formal break, just write when I feel like it, don’t when I don’t or don’t have the time. Good advice. I also heard from old friends, in comments and in email, and well, it was nice. Meant a lot to me – about as much […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. One issue I’ve been debating off and of about with myself is whether to keep the Burningbird weblog. I’ve splintered off so many interests into different weblogs, and the main reason I do so is there is there is an assumption that everything I write is somehow a ‘flame’ and […]
Thank you for you this year. Thank you for sharing your life, hopes, interests, milestones, beautiful writing, wonderous images, your tears and your giggles. Thank you for stopping by and giving me the most important gift we can give each other: your time. Here’s wishing you a new year filled with simple joys: time shared […]
I arrived at LA yesterday at 11AM and California threw a party. Lots of rattling and rolling. Drive to San Francisco was rush hour the entire distance between the two cities. I cancelled my plans to drive 101 tomorrow due to the quake – so it’s the I5 corridor and LA–again. Yesterday I also delivered […]