How’s things you ask? Mets won! Day off today, big day tomorrow. My fear now is having to face the Yankees in the World Series. I don’t think my heart can handle it again.
Things are cool otherwise. Nice day, slept well. Writing is slow. Still working on the Oklahoma memoir thing.
A coffee and a cookie! Seize the carp!
Oooh, ugly game last night, as the Mets got shellacked by the Dodgers. We’ll get them tonight (gulp!).
Nothing new here. Barely left the house this weekend. I did make some excellent taco meat, which led to excellent nachos!
I hope everyone has well. Coffee and a cookie please!
Our hearts are with you Gill. That sounds awful. I’m so sorry.
The play was really good. Really good stylized fighting, and yes, Ape, that St. Crispin Day speech was excellent. “We few, we happy few, we band of brothers.” Prince Hal and Falstaff were incredibly strong actors.
Trump visits Denver today. The event is sold out. Sigh. In other news, that Dodgers-Padres game should be really good tonight. Thinking of you Larry.
A coffee and a cookie?
Mets win! Mets win!
We are the only team to have advanced to the Championship so far. We get to rest on our laurels (who’s Laurel?) until Sunday night.
We are going to see Shakespeare tonight! A combo of Henry 4 and Henry 5. Two and a half hours long, but it’s combining 3 plays, so we shall see what we see. Lots of fighting apparently.
Other than that, therapy today. The mental kind.
Let’s go Mets! A coffee shop and a cookie please!
Good morning all! How bout those Mets? Big win last night! The missus and I went to a bar (at three in the afternoon!) and watched the game! We felt so decadent! Nachos and beer (actually Talia had a lavender gin fizz).
Anyway, if the Mets win today we advance to play the winner of the Dodgers/Padres match. Pretty psyched.
Hey James, the Bear and Girl book looks nice on Amazon! Maybe buy an ad somewhere? It works, if you want readership. I wouldn’t change the title - it fits the story so well.
Cookies look awesome! One of those with a cup of coffee.
James, sorry about your early sales, but I really like your original title. Maybe try marketing in two different ways, and see which works best?
Yes, the Mets won one, lost one, and we are now heading home to Shea Stadium for the next two days. I know it’s not really Shea Stadium anymore, but I refuse to refer to a stadium named after a bank. I gotta admit, even the game the Mets lost was a REALLY GOOD GAME!
We saw the play Dial M for Murder this weekend. Big fun.
Coffee and a cookie please!
Hey all. I hope everyone is well.
Plans you ask? We are going to a play on Saturday: Dial M for Murder. Should be fun. Starting a new critique group too, this one for memoir. We’ll see how that goes. Other than that, things are pretty chill.
Those Chewy Cinnamon Apple Cookies look tasty! I’ll take three! And a coffee!
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Needs to shut up and sing her songs and count her money. She's wholly unqualified to weigh in on political matters. Basically, she's an idiot.
You may disagree with her politics, but she's certainly not an idiot. Clearly, she's pretty smart. Look up some of her lyrics sometime. Why the name-calling?
Morning all. Glad the story is finding its way out, Ape.
And thanks for all the fabulous pastries Cora!
We are taking the cat to the vet today. Just a checkup. Hardest part will be, as always, catching him and putting him into the carrier. Sigh.
Tough loss last night. We need a win tonight or we are out of the playoffs. Go Mets!
Coffee and cookies please!
Hello everyone. Warm and sunny here.
I went to physical therapy yesterday and found out it was today. The last time I went I locked my keys in the car. I swear I am not going senile!
Mets Won! Big game today! We haven't been in the post season since forever. Hope we can make it to the weekend.
The debate was civil last night, so America won.
Those cookies look DELISH, Cora. A coffee and a handful of caramel apple cookies!
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Congrats Elyse. Tell him hi from us. Does he write?
Sorry you are feeling down Ape. Having the top story and being the top writer of the month must help.
Today is physical therapy followed by the Mets game followed by the VP debate. Busy day, even if it is mostly watching TV.
Thanks for all the tasty and pretty cookies Cora. A coffee would be the perfect complement.
Double header with the Braves, the day after baseball season ends! Fun day! Is Sara around on another site? I’m not there enough to even check. Good luck, Sara!
Seriously bummed by Kris Kristofferson’s death. My Dad idolized him, and I did too. I was actually at the concert where Sinead O’Conner was getting booed offstage for speak uncomfortable truths about the church, and Kris walked onstage, put his arm around her, and said “Don’t let the b*st*rds get you down.” Love that man.
Today? Baseball and writing. Let’s go Mets!
A coffee and a handful of cookies please.
Yes, at the height of postseason baseball drama, the Mets and Braves are rained out for two days! Talk about anticlimactic! I am helping my daughter move tonight anyway, so am glad there is no game.
Almost time for Halloween month! We should have a just-for-fun scary story contest. Micros or flash or something.
Thanks for opening up the place 6 years ago Ape!
Sorry about your Blue Jays Bear. I know all about empty promises from team owners.
And thanks for all the cookies Cora, and the baseball deets.
Coffee and cookies please!
Yeah, tough night in the ballpark last night. There is word the next two days might be rained out due to the nearby hurricane. Maybe the Mets could use the break.
Nothing much new here. Warm walking weather again, which is good. Still writing about Baptist churches down south in Oklahoma.
Woke up early! Lots of coffee! And cookies!
James, I’d be happy to write a review. It’s a good story. I will even reread it - I think I missed a couple chapters in the middle.
Cora, it is indeed a big series. I wish Sara was around to enjoy the competition. Or Red to be bored by my talk of baseball. And Anna! Where did they go? I still have to read your poem, Cora!
My Weird Western story is coming out on Halloween! And I have a chunk of memoir coming out by the end of the year. It’s been a good year (though I almost quit writing in the middle of it).
Seize the carp, everyone!
Slept well! Mets won 3 of 4 from the Phillies! It’s a sunny day!
It rained all weekend, and was actually COLD out yesterday. We stayed inside. I will be able to take a walk today.
Lately we’ve been seeing movies on Friday afternoon, when NO ONE is there. Saw Alien Romulus. It was good, not great. I liked it better than Talia did.
Thanks for the set up Ape. Coffee and a cookie please.
Look forward to reading your poem, and especially stoked to see your memoir, Cora!
Slept well! Yay! Mets won! Yay! Today, same old thang. One of our bannisters broke so I will have to mess around repairing that today, maybe the weekend.
My daughter won an essay contest, but they are late announcing the winners and it is p***ing me off. It’s disrespectful to the most important part of the chain: the writer. Ah well. She’ll have to get used to it.
Thanks for the Mets cookies! A coffee too!
Gil, my heart goes out to you. I am sure it must be exhausting, as well as emotionally draining. You are providing a blessed service, though it probably doesn’t feel to blessed now. Hugs.
Didn’t sleep well last night, so I am laying low today. I think I am going to cancel physical therapy and just make it a nice relaxing day.
Mets won again! Huge series starts tonight. I wish Sara was around, the Mets and Braves are neck and neck.
Oh ell. Nice to see you in here, Cora and Apeman.
Coffee and a cookie please.
Yay! More baseball cookies!
I sold the memoir story! And to think I was ready to quit writing two weeks ago. It took me three rejections before they finally accepted it. I really worked hard to get this right. And I feel good that perseverance paid off.
Mets won last night! A week and a half to go in the regular season.
Coffee and Mets cookies please!
I slept well for a change. Yay!
Sending off a memoir today that will be big if they take it. I’ve gotten two complimentary rejection slips from them thus far. We will see if the third time is a charm.
I am also writing about—not making this us—itinerant preachers in the 1930s preaching in rural Oklahoma. One of my great-uncles is among them. It’s ambitious, we will see if I can pull it off.
Man those are some good looking cookies! I’ll have two Mets and two Blue Jay cookies please! And a coffee!
Oh, I will gobble down those Mets cookies Cora.
Not up to much today. Dentist appointment at 1:30 (I always try to make my appointments at 2:30–tooth hurty, ha!—but didn’t get the time I wanted), but it’s just a fast check.
Other than that: writing, watching an game, and a long walk.
Coffee and many Mets cookies please.
Yay! Happy to be sharing the winner’s circle with Kat and the Thespian! Congrats to everyone who won, and everyone who entered.
We saw no movie last night. May hit one this afternoon. Something scary, I bet!
Big baseball weekend! Let’s go Mets!
Coffee and hundreds of cookies please.
