We have discussed in this space before the matter of the classic grade school Valentine, and how it related to postcards. I have nothing new to say about this, but I DO have a couple of new postcards along this line, so I thought we’d revisit the proposition. For those of you whoContinue reading “Year-Round Valentines”
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Unsleeping Beauty: Gardening With Dragons
Affretz swung up his sword to whack the dragon away, but the dragon let go at once and shook its head. “You don’t understand!” Steam dribbled from its nose as it whined, “You’ve broken half the spell! Help me break the other half!” “Spell?” demanded the prince. “Oh, I get it! WhatContinue reading “Unsleeping Beauty: Gardening With Dragons”
Fiction Friday: The case of the Purloined Penguins
“Well, Lieutenant?” “Nothing, Captain. Not a single break in the Cotner Case.” “Only a matter of time, Lieutenant. Continue to monitor Facebook, and keep your staff on Twitter, TikTok, and YouTube. Something could be posted at any time.” “Can do, Captain. But, er…”. “But what, Lieutenant?” “Wilson had anContinue reading “Fiction Friday: The case of the Purloined Penguins”
Fishosophy
They say a person can learn a lot about life from fishing. This is, as our ancestors said, as may be. I can’t speak to it. I gave up fishing at the ripe old age of eight or so when my excitement at actually catching a fish was dashed when I was told IContinue reading “Fishosophy”
Unsleeping Beauty: The Princess and the Ogre
Meanwhile, having been surrounded by a sack, Dimity found herself being dragged down stairs which would have been much too high for her to have walked down. They felt like tree roots as she bounced across them, but the smell alone would have helped her guess she had been taken underground. “You areContinue reading “Unsleeping Beauty: The Princess and the Ogre”
Pet Pairs
One of my numerous former employers has for years tantalized us with the possibility of a massive exhibition of items from its collection related to dogs and/or cats. I never had anything to do with that branch of the place, but I would bet anything that one of the reasons this has never happenedContinue reading “Pet Pairs”
Hazel and Lavonne
It’s all about accidents and chance. Did you ever run across some rediscovered artist online: some songwriter ignored in her own day whose friends preserved her manuscripts and recordings or author whose stories and poems were published in cheap, quickly discarded magazines? Years later, someone comes along and says “Hey, look at this!” andContinue reading “Hazel and Lavonne”
Unsleeping Beauty: Multiple Threats
Affretz sat up and rubbed his eyes. Was something wrong? He couldn’t hear Deedee talking. There was nothing much to see but the wagon, the sinister forest, and the horses. He was about to call out when he heard Archels’s voice. “How could we let him get away? I wanted to findContinue reading “Unsleeping Beauty: Multiple Threats”
Love and Radishes
While I was refiling some of the postcards we examined in our meditations upon romance, the idea leaped out at me that we have been passing by a fairly common romantic association on postcards of the past. That is the connection between romance and food, the association of the stomach and the heart. TheContinue reading “Love and Radishes”
Not Getting It
More postcards have joined my inventory, and some of them prove to be (so far) beyond my intense scholarly research on the Interwebs. So I thought I might share some of the things I am clueless about. No, wait! Come back! I said SOME of the things. My space on this website is notContinue reading “Not Getting It”
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