What We're Taught Isn't Always Right.

Life

is a lesson away from sanity

I love the above quote

because it is really amazing honest

actually

honest as honest could ever be

because we are rarely

ever honest

with ourselves much less others.

 

 

Quality

they say is so much better

than quantity

this is one of those lessons that

runs into the brick wall

known as another lesson taught to children

that doesn't stick

because lessons are taught

without doing.

 

 

We accept

deal with the cards dealt

that that is just the way things go

take your pill

and be so very happy when

so many have nothing at all.

 

 

Admit or don't

pretend that all is peachy keen

life is a bowl of cherry

pits...but hell you had to eat the cherries

right...no one eats the pits

walk no really just run

because you never want to be the

only one sitting

at the table

to be served.

 

barb

Good Morning America - How Are You?

A winter storm

came through the city last night

leaving behind a winter wonderland and

making the apricot tree

use foul language

as it tried to retract its little flower buds.

 

My kiln is ramping up

which means I turned it on and

it is climbing up to 950 degrees which is the

temperature that my glass

needs to release the stress of the heat

from my torch.

 

So what am I doing

this beautiful snow covered morning?

I am making hollow birds

At this point [2 days of experimenting]

I have learned a lot

about pulling a bird out of a round

hollow bead.

 

Now you may ask what exactly

is a hollow bead

or more particularly how you make them

and why...why is because you

can get a very large round bead with little glass

and no weight.

 

Pulling out the head and tail

from a hollow bead works only if you

can not 'pop' that hollow bead

because the 'air' inside is important much

like a balloon.

 

So...my book is at about 190

which is on the shorter side of my books

but I will end it today or tonight

before going back into the story and editing

in or out

parts of the story.

 

Life is good when it snows

when you work on something that excites you

and when the coffee is hot!

 

The end of February frozen in time.

 

barb

No More Sex!

[update:  Google changed their mind so we can go back to normal]

oh blogger

new rules in bloggerville

no more sex...no more naked cowboys

no more explicit shots

shall be spread across your blog.

 

I am amazed

that they were ever allowed

but then with the 9 zillion trillion quadruplie little blogs

that I never see or wonder about

there must be a few that are just down right

snap...

about sex, about no sex, about showing...

well that's their gig I guess

but you know sex sells

what it sells is more sex so sex

begets sex begets more sex begets "whoa"

who posted that sex.

 

I can sum up sex in just one blog

it's what it is

whatever

you know it is sex.

 

So I won't be posting anything

else that would be considered most inappropriate

in the world of blogging!!

 

barb

It's About Expression

 

 

they say 'always watch their eyes'

when you are standing in the dusty old street

legs spread and fingers twitching

as the seconds tick, tick, tick in your ears

like the metallic sound

of the old clock

 

has anyone told you that you don't

have a poker face

when they are telling you something and stop

dead

in the midst of their thought

because what your face is telling them is not

the right response?

 

It is sometimes hard to write

that look, the dead silence between

characters without just putting out the obvious.

I think being a screenwriter is so much easier

you get the dialogue down

and for the background you can just say

'dead silence'.

 

barb

 

 

 



Needs No Words!

 

 

but of course you know I can't no use words for a picture

though it is worth a thousand words

could be misinterpreted

by another.

 

I love art that is words

quotes that are painted in the most unexpected places

that make us ponder or maybe just smile

for a moment.

 

Sitting at the truck stop this morning

waiting for breakfast in a room full of hungry people

with an understaffed waitress

I formed a new project.

 

Does it involve cowboys

no those only feed my passion for writing

and I have no idea why I love cowboys so much

I just accept it.

 

So in the midst of a normal Sunday morning

I formed a new idea, I found this wonderful saying in a gallery

I formed an ocular migraine

[they don't hurt just make you think you ate the wrong mushrooms]

and now I must decide...

 

what do to with this day!

 

barb

 



4th Anniversary!

Second time around

life is always a lot more fun

not to take away from the first trip around the track

but you aren't quite the same the second time.

 

All I can say is that

there are fairies and leprechauns

there is hope at the end of the rainbow

and it takes a special person to make you step out

of your shell and enjoy life!

 

Special thanks to my husband

for making the last four years some of the best

that anyone could dream of...

from the foothills to the crème brulee

life is a bowl

of chocolate bread pudding!

 

Thank you Lewis!

 

barb

 



Writing Is Not a Straight Line

 

My new book is the sequel to John Ellery's Daughters

and it was a slow start as I tried to write

something else but eventually just dove into the second book

but at about 100 pages I took a minor

character and made him a major character

so I went back to the beginning of the story and started

forming this character

so that when he crosses paths with the sisters

it is richer.

 

I am at page 188 with getting the story down

but the rewrite will probably gut the problems that slow

down the story and put in far more detail

where it needs it.

 

Writing is a strange experience unlike my off the cuff

poetry/prose that I never revise

writing a story comes from a place where my

feelings live freely and love

to be turned into stories I shall never live except

in my mind.

 

So if you are waiting for Book II of the Ellery Daughters

have patience for I am writing...

 

barb



Valentine's Day Free Download

 

 

I am bundling thoughts today

for I love Valentine's Day and every year want to buy

a box of the little cards with the paper thin

envelopes

pick up a red pen and write my love of life

across the day...just put them

under people's windshield wipers or

on shelves of stores...

an anonymous greeting and hug.

 

Book II - Texas 1863-1869

will be a free download on Kindle this Friday, Saturday and Sunday

for Valentine's Day.

 

I love romance...I love spontaneous

coupling of people for no reason than the day is

February 14th...no reason other than that.

 

My husband is planning to take me to Paris

[though not on Valentine's Day]

to go up the Eiffel Tower

for nothing more than it is romantic

and we are that in love.

 

 

 

It is strange to reach this part of my life

and be so overwhelmed with his ability to share his feelings

and make me feel like a sixteen year old.

 

So whether you share the day with another

whether you want flowers or candy

remember to take a moment to 'love' life

to its fullest.

 

barb

Tucson In February

Like Albuquerque - Tucson's weather during February is always

a surprise.  This year it is seasonally warm and dry [it wasn't so last week]

which makes half the clothes I brought unnecessary.

 

Tucson is the home of the Gem and Minerals Shows

and spans over almost 2/3 of the month of February where

the vendors and buyers come from around the world...

 

but this year a totally all glass art/bead show is being held

that is bringing together all of the glass artists

who have been scattered across fifty show areas in Tucson

into one location...

 

The upside is spending time with great friends and artists

who work in glass and to talk with customers who have a love

for glass art. 

 

Of course, I found a Korean baseball team

who practice in Tucson for the winter.  I wanted to buy

one of their baseball caps or get a ball signed

but the "managers" looked like they would stop me if I asked.

 

Sigh...

 

So we are here and we are having a blast.

 

barb