I Can’t Get Started

...I said goodbye the next morning, and we ended one world to begin another.

Not All Teachers Are Human

Not all teachers are human

The Devil

You'd be hard-pressed to find any family of seafarers, fisherfolk, or plain coastal types without some horror tale on the water. It just goes with the territory; salt water envelopes most of the world and is dangerous. 

International Talk Like A Pirate Day

This is it, folks! Your opportunity to talk like a pirate - International Talk Like A Pirate Day, September 19th!

Judy’s Number Game -#81

And the number is - 203: Louis Charpentier's Buttons looking down the gardem A favorite cartoon a carved birchwood bowl Louis Charpentier was a Fantastic carver. He worked in the plastics industry, making the original models for the molds. If you wear buttons, you probably have worn some of his. He crafted thousands of them. …

Sit Down Dinner

Daily writing promptIf you could host a dinner and anyone you invite was sure to come, who would you invite?View all responses No. No, and No! It's who you don't invite. I mean if you're going to invite your Folkie friends who still wear their old "Free the Treadmore Seven" T-shirts, and sport flea infested …

The Three-Inch Sloop

Stream of Consciousness Saturday - July 12, 2025 I've been shaving curls of wood off a carving most of the day. A friend asked me to make him a copy of a sign I did on a whim for him years ago. Expecting it to be a one-up gift, I took no measurements. Then, a …

One liner Wednesday!

Here is mine: “Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.”  ― Heinrich Heine

A Close Shave

Navy barbers only knew one cut. Beg them to leave a little on the top, and you'd have pattern baldness at age 18. Insult the quality of the cut, and it would be like tossing their favorite razor on the sidewalk.

Boxes

Stream of Consciousness Saturday - June 28, 2025 It can sometimes be a frustrating part of the craft that people pick up and greatly admire a piece of work, but then move on. If it happened enough with a certain category of items, you discontinue the line. That's what happened with the boxes I used …