Sue Perry's Blog: Required Writing, page 30

Canine Kindness

True story from some friends… Peaches was a rescue dog who liked being the only dog. A big, arthritic German Shepherd, she had the air of a retired police dog (though she wasn’t one). On walks, she avoided other dogs, and when house guests visited they had to leave their dogs at home. One night […]

‘Shrooms with Fern

Tucked in a corner of a friend’s garden. (Posted as part of the Weekly Photo Challenge.)

2D Sand Sculpture

Sand shaped by ebbing tide. (Posted as part of the Weekly Photo Challenge.)

My Top Ten Risks (Whfff! Crash! Boom!)

I’ve got a whole list of risks I might take if only I get the nerve or suffer the judgment lapse. In decreasing order of sanity, they are: get a puppy (training a puppy sounds so unpleasant); write a novel and publish each chapter on the fly as serial fiction with no future writing in reserve […]

Decorative Graffiti

I want my garage doors to look like these! (Posted as part of the Weekly Photo Challenge.)

An End to Needless Worry

(Today’s  Daily Prompt says: write a letter to your least favorite trait.) Dear Anticipatory Hysteria, We’ve been together so many years and we will both have to adjust to life apart. But there is no question – it is time for you to go. I remember when you first came around. I was a teenager and noticed […]

All Mod Cons

Elmore Leonard published the novel Pagan Babies back in 2000 but I just read it this week. It is an Elmore Leonard book, therefore the plot is full of cons and double crosses, the dialog is witty, the prose is terse, and the characters are gritty and lively – oddball yet believable.  In this book, Father […]

Insight From a Meat Pan

Posting about the time religion wrang my doorbell reminded me of this (true) anecdote. There was a woman who always cooked ham for holiday feasts, and as part of the preparations, she always cut both ends off the ham before she put it in the oven. This was how her mother had taught her. She […]

Friendship Circle

Our recently departed cat Boink and our dog Shadow enjoying some couch time together. (Posted as part of the Weekly Photo Challenge.)

Froth and Flow

Incoming surf overtops a sinuous retaining wall. (Posted as part of the Weekly Photo Challenge.)