by Patti Miinch | Oct 18, 2018 | Uncategorized
The 1/2-way point of October 2018 passed just two days ago.That means we are half-way through pumpkin spice everything.We are also just 13 days away from adorable little costume-clad children and pre-teens wearing a football jersey or their mom’s housecoat...
by Patti Miinch | Oct 16, 2018 | Uncategorized
This past spring, once I decided I was going to retire, I began contemplating what I was going to do with all the newly-freed time available to me after the end of May.I bought a black-and-white marbled composition book — a long-time, very inexpensive guilty...
by Patti Miinch | Mar 13, 2018 | Uncategorized
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times . . . Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two CitiesMy local big box pet supply store cannot by any stretch of the imagination be compared to France. But the French Revolution, or at least the famous opening lines to...
by Patti Miinch | Feb 27, 2018 | Uncategorized
Novel-writers tend to fall into one of two camps.Some writers have a germ of an idea and simply sit down and start writing. They allow the characters to reveal themselves and the story to unfold. Because they write by the seat of their pants, so to speak, they are...
by Patti Miinch | Dec 23, 2017 | Uncategorized
I feel more than a bit pretentious as I draft this end-of-the-year post. I mean, seriously! I blogged so sparingly these past 12 months that I’m not sure such a post is warranted.Truth be told, though, my life has been a bit like the proverbial duck this past...
by Patti Miinch | Nov 14, 2017 | Uncategorized
I am one of those people who processes issues by either writing or talking about them. As I journal or recount, sometimes ad nauseum (apologies to my kids, closest friends, and sister), an issue I’m grappling with, I find clarity.That was the case this...
