04.27.2025

Dirt is Good For You

The glamor in my life continues.

This is me after I finished using a pressure washer on our trellis.

As you can see I am wearing dirt for make up. But AT LEAST the patio is clean, and my flowers are planted, helping to make my garden pretty and peaceful for writing books.

Dirt is good for you, just try not to eat it.

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04.27.2025

Innocent Husband Was Mean to Me

This weekend I told Innocent Husband that I needed to go to the store to buy more flowers. Specifically, petunias.
He was aghast. Aghast!
He spread his arms out wide like an avenging eagle and indicated the new flowers surrounding us in their black plastic containers.
“What do you need MORE flowers for, Cathy?”
I could hardly believe my ears. I was befuddled. Baffled. What did he mean when he said, “What do you need MORE flowers for?”
That’s like asking me why I need air. Or a skeletal frame. Or cells. Or eyeballs or kidneys. “I don’t understand your question.”
“You haven’t even planted the flowers that you already bought!” The husband – avenging eagle spread his arms out further. What was he trying to do? Fly away? Elevate himself? Become a human airplane? Silly man.
This conversation was confusing to me so I glared at him. Yes, I had bought purple and magenta hydrangeas and a flowing fern and bright red, cheerful geraniums and purple fuchsias and an azalea that called my name in a sing-song voice. They had not been planted yet.
Why was this an issue?
Why was Innocent Husband botanically bullying me? Why was he speaking such nonsense?
“As a gardener, you don’t need to plant all the flowers you’ve bought before you buy new ones.”
Doesn’t everyone know this? Isn’t it common knowledge? “Are you feeling crazy, baby?”
Innocent Husband sighed which indicated that he did not believe he was feeling crazy.
I believed there was a possibility. Why on Earth would a sane husband ask such an inane question of his wife?
I shook my head at him, the poor man. “The sun is effecting your ability to think. You should go lay down or watch golf and yell at golfballs.”
“I don’t yell at golf balls,” he muttered.
“Yeah, you do. I’ve seen it.”
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04.07.2025

Come and Join Me on Substack

Hello everyone,
I am writing, now and then, when I see a hummingbird, when the stars are aligned in a mermaid shape, when the rain is sparkling, a newsletter on Substack.
I talk about writing, life, and laughter.
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04.07.2025

Vindictiveness

Warning: You may not like me by the end of this article.

I am asked all the time where I get my ideas for my books.

I think it’s an excellent question.

I get ideas everywhere. My quirky childhood. History. A gold and pink sunset on the Oregon coast. Clucky chickens. Pecan pies and whip cream.

Lies.

Revenge.

Vindictiveness.

It is probably not a smart idea to say that I have a slight vengeful side to my nature, as that is not attractive, but I am too old not to be truthful, and to know myself, and I admit it.

Not proud of it, but there it is: I have a vengeful bone in my body.

Probably just one. A small one. A mostly useless bone. Perhaps in my jaw or eye socket.

But when people really tick me off there is a likelihood that the obnoxious, condescending, dismissive, or judgmental PART of their personality is going to unceremoniously land in a character in one of my books.

That person will not, as a whole person, or even half a person, be in my book. My characters come completely out of my free-roaming imagination.

But that prickly, nauseating, dislikable PART will be in one of my characters.

I did this very thing in one of my last few books, the title of which shall mysteriously go unnamed.

A peculiar, sanctimonious sap of a woman lied about me. She should not have done that. The lie had a painful impact on my life.

I have envisioned her being slightly trampled by a shrieking ostrich. I cannot wish more upon her than that because I am not a mean sort of person who wishes ill on anyone.

God, Karma, a conscience that can spring to guilt in a mini-second, and my late mother’s sweet voice unfortunately gets in my way of truly cursing someone.

But I can write about that PART of her. The lying part.

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02.24.2025

Vindictive Cat

I am writing a Substack column titled “Vindictiveness.”

As you can see, my advisor is with me. Unfortunately I made the mistake of touching one of my advisor’s paws. So he bit me. Advisors shouldn’t bite. It’s not polite.

I informed my advisor of this but he seemed unmoved and gave me this cold look. He’s a rescue and still working on his manners. Ironically, the biting actually goes along quite well with my column.

Perhaps my advisor was feeling vindictive. Have a nice day.

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02.24.2025

Christmas in February

Well I have my edits back for my 2025 Christmas book.

I think I may need to get out a little Christmas tree and play Christmas music to get in the writing mood. I suppose Christmas in February works.

Sort of. A little…

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02.14.2025

Happy Valentine’s Day…From the Cats and Me

Happy Valentine’s Day!

I’m sick so I’ll be celebrating Valentine’s Day by watching some really ridiculous reality TV with Innocent Husband and the bad cats. Hopefully he will remember to buy me a little cake.

I’ll tell him now not to forget, just to be sure…

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02.11.2025

Talking to My Cats

Do you think it’s odd that I ask my cats about their opinions on the stories I’m writing and what the characters are doing?
I don’t either.
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02.10.2025

Happy Valentine’s Day!

Happy Valentine’s Day!

If you need a little literary love, light, and laughter in your life, you might try these books.

(Yes, I really tried hard to add the alliteration here. It’s not very good. But, it’s after midnight, and this is the time when I am easily, and oddly, entertained by sentence structure and word choice. It is clearly time for me to go to bed.)

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01.21.2025

We Camped for SIX Weeks…

When I was a little girl living in Huntington Beach, California my father, an engineer, received a sabbatical from work.
For some reason, my parents, Jim and Bette, both decided it would be a splendid idea if they took four kids and two dogs camping up and down the California and Oregon coast for six weeks.
Yes, SIX WEEKS.
In a big blue tent.
With sleeping bags.
One dog, Frisky, tried to bite people, the other, Alphy, tried to bite other dogs. They weren’t very pleasant.
Some people might say my parents lost their minds ever so slightly…
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