New Coffee Share :: A High Speed Redwood Sprout

Greetings all,

My newest Coffee Share is out.

This week, I share about a redwood tree that we lost to a failed irrigation system malfunction but how it is growing back at a remarkable speed and how I’m monitoring it.  I finally got a big re-edit out the door for one of my “I Recall” stories.  It’s another visit back to the 1970s, this time to rerun a memory of being lost in thick tule fog and how this turned out to be wonderful memory for me and a bunch of friends

It’s a playful little read and I hope you’ll check out both the coffee share essay and  the reprised, I Recall story.

 Click here to read, Coffee Share for 230603 :: A High Speed Redwood SproutThanks for stopping by.

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Reprising :: The Foggy Hike Adventure

Greetings all,

Many of you will recall how I’m going back to most of my earliest stories, those about growing up in Petaluma and my life after Petaluma.

My goal is to apply a stronger degree of editing and prose-polishing that I’ve learned since first releasing these stories .

This story goes back to Petaluma High School, a certain valley south of town, a certain group of friends, both boys and girls during the early days when we figured out how great it was having some great girls with you for adventures.

This story is freshly revised with lots of new material,  reedited and expanded to almost 3000 words so it should be a near full 10 minutes hard limit I impose on these stories.  If you’ve read it before, I hope you agree that it’s much more entertaining now.

Click here to read: The Foggy Hike Adventure

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New Coffee Share :: A Sneak Attack By Okra

Greetings all,

My newest Coffee Share is out.

This week, was pretty busy, just like the two before it, thus no coffee share essays were created. This week is a bit of a catch-up as I had to deal with an old nemesis – the nasty okra vegetable, but in the same time period I was able to carve out some time to re-edit and reprise three of my “I Recall” stories.  There’s some fun in each of them.

It’s a playful little read and I hope you’ll check them all out.

 Click here to read, Coffee Share for 230528 :: A Sneak Attack By Okra

Thanks for stopping by.

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Reprising :: The Sufferings of a Young Autodidact

Greetings all,

Many of you will recall how I’m going back to most of my earliest stories, those about growing up in Petaluma and my life after Petaluma, to apply a stronger degree of editing and prose -polishing that I’ve learned since first releasing these stories .

This story goes back to Petaluma High School and a certain creative writing class I took, loved and still managed to tie myself in knots over.  This reprise turned out to be a bigger rewrite than most others but I like the new material added and think it tells a better story.

This story is freshly revised,  reedited, remastered and now it’s reprised for your enjoyment.  If you’ve read it before, I hope you agree that it’s much more entertaining now.

Click here to read: The Suffering Of A Young Autodidact

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Reprising :: A Song from On High

Greetings all,

Many of you will recall how I’m going back to most of my earliest stories, those about growing up in Petaluma and my life after Petaluma, to apply a stronger degree of editing and prose -polishing that I’ve learned since first releasing these stories .

This story goes back to the college where I did my undergraduate work and how chaos followed me to this quiet and disciplined campus.  Actually, this was funny the day it happened, and I’ve not grown up enough to think any different about it since.

This story is freshly revised,  reedited, remastered and now it’s reprised for your enjoyment.  If you’ve read it before, it’s more entertaining now.  If you’ve not read it before, get ready to laugh with me.

Click here to read: A Song from On High

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Reprising :: Adventures in Trespassing

Greetings all,

Many of you will recall how I’m going back to most of my earliest stories, those about growing up in Petaluma. This story was about an odd side of my young personality that took me to a few odd places.

Seriously though, there are adventures out there just waiting and sometimes you just need to ignore a few “No Trespassing” signs to get to them.

This story is freshly revised,  reedited, remastered and now it’s reprised for your enjoyment.

Click here to read: Adventures in Trespassing

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Reprising :: The Scary night Adventure

Greetings all,

Many of you will recall how I’m going back to most of my earliest stories, those about growing up in Petaluma. This story was about an odd job I did in high school as the night water boy for Petaluma Golf and Country Club.

So I drove around the fairways, moving sprinklers, in the dark, and sometimes fog, alone.

What could possibly go wrong?

Several things I never saw coming.

Click here to read: The Scary Night Adventure

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New Coffee Share :: Naming the Fear of Small Talk

Greetings all,

My newest Coffee Share is out.

This week, I found myself researching phobias and along the way realized that my own wasn’t listed in a long list of weird things that people develop legitimate, diagnose-able fears of.

It’s a playful little read and I hope you’ll check it out.

 Click here to read, Coffee Share for 230506 :: Naming the Fear of Small Talk

Thanks to Michel van der Vegt for the free photo use via pixabay.com.

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New 99-Word Fiction :: A Clarified Mosaic

Greetings all,

I’m sharing out my new 99 word story inspired by the Carrot Ranch weekly challenge.

Today, a  memory of not knowing much, but wanting to know almost everything frustrated me, then life happened and my hope to know things began to happen.  To this end, I introduce a metaphor of how to hope to know all the colors of a hidden mosaic of truth – all in about 30 seconds.

Click here to read: A Clarified Mosaic.

Photo Credit: free photo via Charlie Mills of the Carrot Ranch

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New Coffee Share :: Enjoying the Green While I Can

Greetings all,

My newest Coffee Share is out.

This week, I give an update on a topic from economics via my reading in  “Free to Chose” by Milton Friedman, the wonderful, but temporary green state of our back yard (with a freebie item on the 12 Blue Belly Lizards in this new year’s community. I have a lot of photos of the green back yard and an extra treat of a few photos from our oldest son and DIL visiting us while they helped with the Easter service at her previous church near us.

Such a treat it was to have them with us again.

It’s a different type of coffee share this week, more whimsical and thought provoking I hope so I also hope you’ll check it out.

 Click here to read, Coffee Share for 230423 :: Enjoying the Green While I Can

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