musings, thoughts, and writings of Barbara W. Klaser
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04-20-2009 08:13AM:
Catnip anyone? No?
04-19-2009 11:09AM:
Local festivals
04-13-2009 04:30PM:
I know there’s something good happening out there
03-27-2009 11:57AM:
Crane flies and a flying cat
03-21-2009 05:57PM:
Premio Dardos Award
02-24-2009 02:56PM:
Watch the skies for Comet Lulin
02-06-2009 01:55PM:
On not being in such a hurry
01-19-2009 10:25AM:
What’s the appropriate response to this?
01-11-2009 09:34PM:
Favorite things
12-11-2008 03:59PM:
Doing laundry
12-09-2008 05:28PM:
Plane crash
11-27-2008 11:06AM:
Thankful for rain, I think
11-04-2008 09:44AM:
Wishes granted
10-27-2008 02:08PM:
Have we been teleported to Phoenix?
10-16-2008 03:22PM:
Dry weather musings
10-06-2008 04:15PM:
Summer drags on
09-13-2008 10:38AM:
Shelob is dead, but Ike rages on
07-29-2008 06:46PM:
His name was Independence
07-14-2008 12:10PM:
The best laid plans or happy accidents?
07-12-2008 10:46AM:
For Bev
07-11-2008 09:13PM:
I promised pictures
07-08-2008 12:49PM:
Catching up
05-30-2008 03:27PM:
Gardening habit or gardening revolution?
05-17-2008 04:42PM:
We’re cat people — even the dog
04-18-2008 04:00PM:
Spring swelter
03-17-2008 12:01PM:
The hawk and the dove
03-15-2008 02:26PM:
Comment problems fixed — THANK YOU!
03-15-2008 12:22PM:
Specialist or generalist
03-09-2008 11:40AM:
Memoir fraud
02-23-2008 02:45PM:
More birds
02-15-2008 12:18PM:
Still winter
02-02-2008 10:30AM:
Groundhog Day
01-20-2008 05:32PM:
A sad goodbye to Suzanne Pleshette
01-16-2008 06:20PM:
Early spring, or not? And what is this vine?
01-13-2008 02:34PM:
Objective voter information at Project Vote Smart
01-07-2008 11:21AM:
It’s dark out there
01-01-2008 06:43PM:
Entering 2008
12-23-2007 03:03PM:
Trading holiday madness for holiday joy
12-09-2007 01:58PM:
Snow
11-30-2007 01:40PM:
A Roar For Powerful Words!
11-22-2007 02:22PM:
Over the river, and through the wood
11-03-2007 12:45PM:
Day of the Dead
10-26-2007 04:13PM:
Home safe and sound
10-22-2007 10:14AM:
San Diego County is burning . . . again
10-15-2007 04:45PM:
Politics and the environment collide again
10-09-2007 02:02PM:
Yearning for fall
10-03-2007 01:03PM:
Five years ago today
09-27-2007 10:59AM:
Blogging, books, the faeries, and me
09-20-2007 01:13PM:
Into the shadows
09-02-2007 01:35PM:
Right outside my door
08-31-2007 02:34PM:
Emily’s journey home
08-14-2007 02:15PM:
Synopsis: curse or blessing?
08-01-2007 06:12PM:
Our newest neighbor, a Rufous Hummingbird
07-27-2007 09:31AM:
Going with the flow
07-09-2007 01:35PM:
Gloria Steinem proposes a new film genre label
07-07-2007 12:32PM:
The Universe In A Single Atom
07-05-2007 07:33PM:
Critiques II
07-04-2007 04:17PM:
Critiques
06-23-2007 09:01PM:
Beware the flutter of orange wings
06-12-2007 12:45PM:
Jacaranda blooming season
06-08-2007 02:02PM:
Thinking Bloggers Awards
05-27-2007 06:34PM:
A golden afternoon at Silver Lake
05-16-2007 08:14PM:
Judging the news
04-27-2007 04:20AM:
I know who plants the weeds
04-13-2007 02:16PM:
Paper to digital
04-02-2007 06:35PM:
Essential Guitar
03-28-2007 02:42PM:
I’ll be away for a little while
03-14-2007 10:38PM:
Free books, first cars, and nightmares
03-07-2007 11:53AM:
Words and weeds
02-25-2007 06:23PM:
More poetry
02-17-2007 01:25PM:
Indie publishers ask for less and win
02-09-2007 05:14PM:
Cockatoo love
02-04-2007 12:15AM:
Excuse me while I tag this blog
01-24-2007 10:38AM:
Dance of the palm fronds
01-16-2007 08:44PM:
Pages to Paragraphs: conquering inflated word count
01-11-2007 05:35PM:
To Kill A Mockingbird author makes rare appearance
01-03-2007 05:05PM:
Creativity as order from chaos
12-28-2006 09:30PM:
What draws us to the animals we love?
12-20-2006 04:44PM:
Interconnections, parallels, and epiphany
12-17-2006 01:11PM:
Silver-edged morning
12-03-2006 01:59PM:
December skies — wind and shooting stars
11-24-2006 02:50PM:
A little late but Happy Thanksgiving
11-09-2006 02:11PM:
A revolution of Kindness
10-27-2006 06:12PM:
Golden light
10-26-2006 01:03PM:
Yellow skies, fallen heroes
10-22-2006 10:49AM:
Close encounters with the unknown
10-08-2006 06:04PM:
Outing my secret love
10-06-2006 12:00PM:
When what you want to read doesn’t exist
09-29-2006 12:55PM:
When reading is impossible
09-20-2006 03:42PM:
Please ban my books
09-17-2006 04:06PM:
Purr Master
09-11-2006 11:13AM:
Hey, where’d that Shrinking Violet person go?
08-31-2006 04:40PM:
Oops! I almost missed it
08-18-2006 11:22PM:
Water
08-07-2006 03:28PM:
Literary pets
07-29-2006 03:43PM:
After a gray morning with lonesome gusts of wind
07-27-2006 01:13PM:
This is going to sound radical
07-23-2006 01:18PM:
Hot weather
07-13-2006 02:06PM:
Bugs
07-11-2006 10:57AM:
Order and chaos
07-04-2006 09:40AM:
What is privilege?
06-21-2006 01:05PM:
Have you ever noticed
06-18-2006 12:18PM:
Until the post office runs out of stamps
06-08-2006 02:13PM:
From a distance
05-30-2006 03:49PM:
Writing for yourself
05-27-2006 01:44PM:
What good is hope?
05-10-2006 04:11PM:
Gone Fishing
04-28-2006 04:41PM:
Plagiarized or packaged to death?
04-23-2006 04:05PM:
Which words count?
04-10-2006 10:30PM:
Extrovert or introvert?
03-26-2006 05:49PM:
Tolerate my religion and I’ll tolerate yours
03-19-2006 11:06AM:
Spring anyone?
03-10-2006 02:55PM:
Why we blog
03-06-2006 01:55PM:
No one saw it coming
03-01-2006 06:20PM:
Hey, that’s my home town
02-26-2006 12:50PM:
Another Violet
02-19-2006 10:39AM:
Dialogue
02-11-2006 02:02PM:
Fond memories, anxiety, and back to the book
02-10-2006 01:33PM:
Four Meme
02-05-2006 03:30PM:
While I wasn’t blogging
01-22-2006 07:43PM:
Habitual Meme
01-19-2006 05:47PM:
I started writing by hand
01-17-2006 06:44PM:
What ever happened to aprons?
01-14-2006 04:18PM:
Truth and fiction
01-08-2006 11:53AM:
Do you read when you’re writing?
12-31-2005 02:23PM:
Happy New Year 2006
12-26-2005 02:33PM:
Write a powerful synopsis
12-20-2005 02:27PM:
Snow Angels
12-19-2005 09:15PM:
Merry Whatever and a Happy New Year
12-14-2005 11:36AM:
Post Secret for inspiration
12-11-2005 06:17PM:
Pinter’s Nobel lecture
12-06-2005 03:04PM:
Second draft revisited
12-02-2005 08:57PM:
Second draft is done
11-25-2005 10:31AM:
Dust devil or dust angel?
11-21-2005 06:31PM:
A hippopotamus in the room
11-02-2005 12:17PM:
Rosa Parks legacy
11-01-2005 12:37PM:
Who are your kids listening to?
10-25-2005 09:03PM:
Why continue writing fiction?
10-09-2005 04:27PM:
Breaking the rules
09-20-2005 03:18PM:
Thunder, lightning and blazing palm trees
09-19-2005 02:05PM:
Jury duty
09-13-2005 12:39PM:
A second viewpoint character
09-04-2005 10:42AM:
Helping out in Katrina’s wake
08-30-2005 11:06AM:
Damage from Hurricane Katrina
08-23-2005 02:17PM:
How did your dog learn all that?
08-17-2005 05:56PM:
My dog talks and he likes soup
08-13-2005 03:14PM:
Los Romeros
08-02-2005 08:17PM:
Payment for product mentions?
07-16-2005 08:06PM:
Writing but not blogging
07-02-2005 04:24PM:
Wordless journeys
06-25-2005 05:01PM:
Steve Jobs on finding what you love
06-23-2005 03:54PM:
Summer doldrums
06-21-2005 06:34PM:
Pulitzer winners
06-17-2005 07:24AM:
Shaking things up
06-12-2005 05:16PM:
News without a negative slant—including our earthquake
06-08-2005 06:07PM:
How random is publishing today?
06-02-2005 04:17PM:
The Writer’s Mentor, by Cathleen Rountree
05-21-2005 06:57PM:
Return To Me
05-15-2005 06:44PM:
Writing every day
05-11-2005 05:16PM:
A fortune in your cookie
05-07-2005 06:23PM:
Happy Mother’s Day
05-07-2005 02:34PM:
Writing corner
04-29-2005 11:35AM:
Weeds have taken over and bunnies are breeding
04-23-2005 12:22PM:
Writers pleading with O . . .
04-22-2005 06:04PM:
Earth Day
04-20-2005 04:06PM:
Perfume
04-20-2005 03:51PM:
Squirrel love
04-19-2005 10:25AM:
First draft
04-13-2005 11:35AM:
Blue Jell-O
04-06-2005 08:36AM:
Rain, more rain and rainmakers
03-26-2005 03:22PM:
Why I stop reading
03-20-2005 03:09PM:
It’s Spring!
03-06-2005 07:16PM:
Finding Your Voice, by Les Edgerton
03-01-2005 01:46PM:
Lost in my computer
02-27-2005 11:35AM:
Lace shawl knitting update
02-24-2005 04:31PM:
Rain-but where’s the cloud?
02-21-2005 05:32PM:
Eight of Swords, by David Skibbins
02-16-2005 01:12PM:
A couple of tidbits from writers
02-15-2005 12:59PM:
Masks of Murder, by C. C. Canby
02-11-2005 03:46PM:
Who is this blog for?
02-05-2005 01:19PM:
Fiction versus reality
01-21-2005 05:23PM:
The Probable Future, by Alice Hoffman
01-13-2005 02:21PM:
Life of Pi, by Yann Martel
01-13-2005 02:20PM:
Got a peanut?
01-08-2005 06:02PM:
A different kind of book signing
01-05-2005 02:30PM:
Cedar Waxwings
01-03-2005 03:19PM:
Who reads?
01-03-2005 12:25PM:
Morning knitting
12-30-2004 03:57PM:
A wish for peace in 2005
12-21-2004 05:31PM:
Merry Christmas
12-16-2004 05:41PM:
The Winter Solstice, by John Matthews
12-10-2004 05:00PM:
Finding Forrester
12-05-2004 01:53PM:
2005 Calendars
11-30-2004 01:48PM:
A Knitter’s Journey
11-23-2004 12:13PM:
Happy Thanksgiving
11-21-2004 05:16PM:
Critiques In the Early Stages: Shades of Gray
11-12-2004 04:31PM:
Zen and the Art of Picture Hanging
11-08-2004 12:21PM:
Meme du Jour
10-31-2004 01:27PM:
Verse of the Vampyre by Diana Killian
10-26-2004 11:05AM:
Why We Write
09-26-2004 02:18PM:
What I’m Reading
09-20-2004 01:10PM:
How Is Your Commitment?
09-14-2004 01:14PM:
Dances With Cats
09-07-2004 09:59AM:
Unanswered Questions
07-19-2004 03:12PM:
Who Is This Shrinking Violet Person Anyway?
06-30-2004 12:00PM:
Shadows Fall
10-21-2003 12:00PM:
High Rhymes and Misdemeanors by Diana Killian
11-28-2001 12:00PM:
To Wear The White Cloak by Sharan Newman
07-31-2001 05:33PM:
Before I Say Goodbye by Mary Higgins Clark
07-31-2001 12:30PM:
He Shall Thunder In The Sky by Elizabeth Peters
04-25-2001 12:00PM:
Canis by Robert E. Armstrong
02-17-2001 12:00PM:
Beacon Street Mourning by Dianne Day
02-17-2001 12:00PM:
Hair Raiser by Nancy J. Cohen