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Tiny Tuesday!

While I’m not writing and have low energy, I’m doing small projects slowly. One is that I have a lot of photo albums (thirty-eight right now) on shelves in Lynne’s room, and whenever I go looking for photos, it’s anyone’s guess how many I’ll pull out before I find the year I’m looking for.

No more. They’re all labeled with dates now, unless dates are irrelevant, when they’re labeled with something that lets me know their contents. This will make future usage of old photos a lot more efficient.

This is not one of the photos in those albums, maybe, but it’s one in my Flickr account. Whenever I want to think of a photo I’ve taken over the years that makes me happy, this one often comes to mind. It’s from November 2010, when David Puterbaugh came to visit, and Tim and he are walking wee Hanley away from the Menil Museum.

What a beautiful day with people I love.

Tiny Tuesday!


It’s been a long time since three of my old watches have been on display. I had to do a bit of cleaning and adjusting, but they are now hanging in the writing sanctuary, which is in many ways the most retro room of the Hall.

A closer look:


Spiro Agnew watch from 1970, Bicentennial watch from 1976, and AIDS red ribbon watch from 1990s

I’m not sure which of my other watches I still have, but they once included a Mickey Mouse watch and a Winnie the Pooh watch. I think I still have the first watch I was ever given–probably a Timex. I remember the resurgence of watch-wearing in the ’90s with Swatches, but I guess these days, getting a fun new watch isn’t a thing unless it’s a smartwatch connecting the wearer to the entire world. (Okay, Boomer.)

Tiny Tuesday!

I’m not painting, but I’ve got a lot of supplies for when I start. Mark occasionally asks if I’m still doing my bottle caps series, and I’ve recently received two bags of new (to me) caps. It’s making me itch to do some. One of my favorites was caps on tiny canvases then mounted to a larger canvas.


The Kids Are All Right
Mixed media, 2012

An old friend from my college years bought that one. I think I want to do something on this scale again.

Today, I shipped one that I painted in 2012, inspired by the people I sent it to. I hope they like it.

Tiny Tuesday!

One of my favorite things at Christmas since 2001 is watching Tim open the package he gets from his parents. In addition to their real gifts, they send him the funniest random stuff that cracks me up. (Is this a good time to remind you that December is only four months away?)


This past Christmas, his gifts included this game. In the Pandemic Time, on the occasions people gather at Houndstooth Hall, we’re usually all pretty desperate to catch up on conversations and cook and stuff our faces, so we haven’t played it. But surely its time will come, and just in case, I even picked up a couple of extra kazoos at Cactus Music.

You draw a card and choose a song to play from either side. I haven’t opened the package of cards, but I’m hoping that for all the songs I won’t know, on at least one side will be a tune for boomers like me.

I have a feeling there will be abundant laughter when we finally do this. I hope we don’t play kazoo songs like we sing happy birthday at our birthday celebrations, because that usually sounds like a dirge. Maybe because by the time we get to cake and candles, we’re in a food coma.

Tiny Tuesday!

Back in May, when I went to Half Acre Wood– wait, I should back up. If you know the magical land inhabited by A.A. Milne’s Christopher Robin and Winnie-the-Pooh characters, you know its name is Hundred Acre Wood.

If you know me, you know I like to give names. To characters, to animals, to cars, to places, even to stones and crystals. That’s why I’ve lived at The Compound, where we also had the Doll House a/k/a the TimLair, and moved to Houndstooth Hall, where we also have Fox Den and Fairy Cottage. It’s why I called my friend Pat’s home Small Paradise, because when I’d visit there, I felt surrounded by plants, magic, and love. Gardens and so many fun events were why I named Lynne and Craig’s home Green Acres. Since Craig’s death, Lynne has had several homes that I never really named.

In May, when I visited her current home for the first time, I felt again the same magic and love–and of course, because it’s Lynne, an abundance of plants, flowers, and trees. That’s when I decided to call it Half Acre Wood, an homage to Green Acres and to the magical world of Hundred Acre Wood.

Here are a few photos; everything pictured is part of her property.


While I was visiting Half Acre Wood, Lynne gave me a journal. It’s like the best of Becky worlds, because it’s a journal AND a coloring book. I wasn’t sure exactly how I’d use it, but I liked it so much that I thought Lindsey might also find the combination appealing. I ordered one and gave it to her. She immediately said she’d be able to use it to expand on ideas, inspirations, and plans for the business she shares with her mother.

I’ve been struggling to figure out how to start book six–because the way I ended the fifth book of the Neverending Saga changed a lot of things–and this morning I thought,Why not do what Lindsey’s doing. Why not see if this coloring book journal can…

Then, instead of thinking about it, I began coloring, got the idea to apply order and imagination to my approach, and just like that, everything that made me fretful was supplanted by a whole different perspective on whose voice needs to launch Number Six.

Coloring page in progress. Finished version on Instagram.*

*Here’s the link for the Instagram post.