Marilynne's World

You know how hard men are to shop for.  Well, Roy is now an exception.  Today we went to LA to shop for Roy’s Christmas Gift.  Since we used to live in this area, it’s always fun to go back.  I’d never been in LA’s Toy District, though Roy shops for me there at times.  [...]

We’ve had solar power from the panels on the roof since late August.  At first the summer sunshine really made those meter dials spin – backwards.  So, how are we doing in December? Our last bill was for November.  On it we show a huge CREDIT left on our bill. We haven’t paid anything yet.  [...]

It’s December and I’ve just dead-headed my roses one last time.  I could just let them grow wild and rangy, but they’re already as tall as the eaves of the house.  I’d love to be able to see them and put my face into them to smell them. By January I’ll cut them down to [...]

NaNoWriMo is over for 2009.  Many of us are winners.  We wrote 50,000 words in the month of November.  Tonight we sought the company of others in our neighborhood who were feeling the same loss and triumph.  Loss that we didn’t have to write all those words any longer, and triumph that we did it! [...]