A.M. Offenwanger's Blog, page 14
November 26, 2020
#ThrowbackThursday: Sock Puppetry, or: Showing Off and Hiding Out
I just ran across this post on my old blog, from September 2012. And it’s not a bad post, worth rereading. So here it is.
Sock Puppetry, or: Showing Off and Hiding Out
There’s this lovely term floating around the internet: sock puppetry. In case you haven’t run across it, it’s when people build themselves fake identities in order to make themselves (in their regular identity) look good. Say, for example, if I created multiple google accounts for myself, and then posted admiring responses to m...
November 25, 2020
November 19, 2020
The Scent of Hygge
A cinnamon stick and a few cloves in water on a potpourri burner. Simmer all day. Usually I don’t start doing that until December, but this year winter hit so early, there was nothing else for it: the scent of hygge to banish November gloom.
November 11, 2020
October 26, 2020
WIND
WIND
Sighing
Soughing
Shrieking
Crying
Gusting
Ripping
Tearing
Bending
Buffeting
Pummeling
Ruining
Flattening
Cooling
Caressing
Stroking
Soothing
Embracing
Lifting
Soaring
Bearing
Clearing
Cleansing
Calming
Power.
February 2020
Image by Lynette Stebner, Poem (written on the painting) by A.M.Offenwanger
Acrylic, Canvas and Ink on Deep Exhibition Cradle Board | 18 x 24″
Available for sale by contacting Lynette @ https://lynettestebner.com/
October 21, 2020
October 7, 2020
September 16, 2020
#WordlessWednesday: Tübingen
Tübingen Market Place, August 2019
September 15, 2020
Enchanted Conversation: “The Case of the Missing Kiss”
An article by Yours Truly just went up on Enchanted Conversation Magazine. Those of you who’ve been reading my ramblings for a while might recognize it: I wrote it in the course of my grad school research and posted it on Quillandqwerty; now EC has kindly republished it.
THE CASE OF THE MISSING KISS
I’ve been studying Frog Prince tales. You know the ones: princess meets frog, he does her a service, in return he asks for a kiss, she kisses him, and hey presto, he’s turned into a handsome pr...
August 14, 2020
E.L.Bates: Diamonds to Dust Published
Louise’s new book is out!! Go get your copy!
No time to waste on fancy intros–let’s get right to the heart of the matter.
What starts as an intriguing puzzle soon takes a more sinister turn when a dead body shows up. When all of the clues only make matters more murky, how can Pauline Gray make sense of it all? This case will take all her wits and investigative ability to solve … but the body count is growing …Horace Van Camp, of Clayton, NY, is dead, and his wealth has bee...
