117F Degrees – Really.

 

NaBloPoMo Post Number 3 for Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Today’s Prompt:  Have you ever wished you could enter a book?

Yes, yes, I have – today especially.  When I first thought about my answer to this prompt, I pictured the pond/lake across from Inspector Banks’ home (author, Peter Robison) and joining him on the rock wall with a glass of Scotch.  But now, I’m opting for anything set in…Alaska, the North Pole, Iceland…

Today at 4:00PM. it was 117F degrees here.  I kid you not, 111F degrees actual temperature, but the real feel heat index… 117F degrees:

At 10 minutes till 8:00PM, it was still 110F degrees!

So… the Arctic, the Moon, Siberia…

NaBloPoMo Post 2 – Favorite Author

 

This is my NaBloPoMo Post for Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Today’s Prompt:  Who is your favorite author?

My first response to this question is to express how difficult it would be for me to choose just one as a favorite.  But, I wanted a more exact answer than that.

Over the years, as my reading preferences matured and visited various genres, my nominations for favorite author changed with each new venue.  I think I will always pick Agatha Christie and Peter Robinson.  (Never mind the glaring differences in eras.)  There is a list of “classical” authors I could post.  But, since having tried this writing activity myself, I have a new perspective.  I appreciate the “big name” successful authors and I will always have my favorites among them that I will continue to faithfully read.

But my pick for my favorite author is Altonian, to me, he’s Papa Leigh.  He writes the stories and poems I like to read, the ones that make me laugh and the ones that make me cry.  I don’t know why he’s not as famous as any of the celebrity authors.  I figure it’s probably because he spent most of his time working and being a good husband and father to his family first.  He always makes time to listen to me – me with my insecurities, inexperienced and “newbie” questions as I try and put my own words onto paper, or screen as the case may be.  All the while still entertaining his readers with his writing.

You can read what my favorite author writes here Scandic Sequences and here Altonian's Tales.

NaBloPoMo Post 1

 

Parts of me show up in my writing that I keep and share on Wordpress Blogs.  And part of me shows up in the blog I have for the Kwee Cats.  But I’ve gotten so caught up in keeping up, that where I started, here, with my Kwee Life has become rather anemic.  And I think, along with a mix of other things, I’m feeling it.  I saw the NaBloPoMo over on Jessica Prescott's JP's Poetry site.  It seemed like a good and interesting idea.

 

NaBloPoMo Post for Monday, August 1, 2011

Today’s Prompt:  What is your favourite book?

I have been an avid reader my entire life.  Even before I could read, Daddy would read to me.  Books have always been something more akin to a friend to me than just a matter of print.  I can go anywhere I want to, and do anything I wish, in a book.  When I began to nurture my own wish to write, I found I was only limited by the words I chose to use.

I was a Daddy’s girl.  I have not been “entirely right” ever since he died, even though its been over 20 years.  There is a book that emotions often keep me from opening, titled “My Father Can Fix Anything,” 1965, by Mabel Watts. We, however, called it, “My Daddy Can Fix Anything.”  He could.  That book, even more now than when I was a child and he would read it to me, is my favorite book.