something leaning against the wall happened to slide down a make a big crash while both the cat and dog were in the room as well. It startled both, and the dog instinctively ran for the stairs to go to our bedroom. The cat then, instinctively chased him, ...
Our plan, to the extent that we had one, was to explore the quirky environs of Key West and take a week or so in the Dry Tortugas for some snorkeling and walks around the historic fort. Then, when the weather and wind were right, we would turn eastward and jump over to the Bahamas...
I had this wonderful photograph of Pepper that I snapped during one of our hikes to a waterfall. I was taking a picture of the waterfall when Pepper leaned her head over to see what I was doing while I snapped the pic. I then dubbed it: Pepper’s Selfie! It just captures her cute,...
But doing nothing will not do. Outside, the community chant is “No-one sees eye to eye, but everyone agrees – this is my street!” Irish communist Maraid (Sha Dessi) who works in a Jewish bakery makes common cause with the dockworkers and multicultural immigrants (making sure the audi...
(non-verbal messages sent through body language) in a group. One kinetic signal which is of tremendous importance for those in marketing and advertising is the dilation of pupils. The pupil size unconsciously increases when you see a thing of great interest—a sign to the marketing man that ...
Greetje pointed to one of the bookshelves, and the two of them dragged one side of it away from the wall, making a great crunching noise as it scraped across the floor. They looked at each other with chagrin, and strained to lift one corner of the shelf so that it would move quietly...
because I’d eliminated a key plot point that ended up draining the whole story of hilarity and tension. But I’d gotten a good hold on my characters, so–cool. I went back to page one, added the plot point, hilariousness and tension, and then realized one of my characters had the ...
Right up until the end, he was happy, leaning his head out the car window on the way up to the vet. Barking at the baby goats in the parking lot. He even jumped when he heard we were going for a car ride. At the vet, he managed to snag himself some cat treats and then they...
There were times when a cats’-meat man sitting on one side of a table in the Baronial Hall got a longing in his soul to have a chat with friend in trade who happened to be seated on the other side, and arguing that it was a long way round one way and a short cut the other,...
And while they spent a significant amount of time on foreign policy — talking about Israel, Ukraine and China — they spent hardly any time talking about North Korea, though Trump at one point bragged in the third person that the country was “afraid of him” when he was presid...