It’s not like riding a bicycle. It doesn’t just come back to you. By it, of course, I mean starting a new novel.
My new project is another adaptation of Malory – the story of Sir Palomides, one of the Saracen knights who, along with his brothers Safir and Segwarides (all three made cameos in The [...]
Archive > August 2006
Back at the start
A vision of the future, in an eight-planet solar system
Burt Offspring: “Mommy, today in school we learned about the eight planets!”
LR: “How exciting, ducky. You know, when I was a girl, there were nine planets. The ninth was called Pluto.”
Beat — Burt Offspring blinks.
Burt Offspring: “Cool! What happened to Pluto? Did it get nuked by aliens?”
LR: “Erm, no.”
Burt Offspring: “Did the sun expand [...]
Three tiny geckos
Three tiny geckos
Three tiny geckos
Inside the house
Inside the house
They came inside to avoid the drought
When LR saw them she gave a shout
The Burts’ Dust Buster’s where they now run about
The three tiny geckos.
I know it’s all supposed to rhyme with geckos, but there just aren’t words that rhyme with gecko — except Legos, sort of, [...]
Nostalgia
Yesterday the little brother moved to college. As he’s attending my Alma Mater, Baylor, this of course brought back loads of memories from my own years of carrying loads of stuff from a car in sweltering Waco, Texas, carried me back to my own four Augusts of moving back to school. (Actually, I only moved [...]
Habitat for reptility
Yes, I know reptility’s not a word. But I get to make up words when I’m being clever.
Apparently geckos like living in Dust Busters. Friday, after using it on the staircase, only to remember the little guys were still inside, I took them to the backyard to give them their freedom.
The sticky little things wouldn’t [...]
