Mystery of a Shrinking Violet

musings, thoughts, and writings of Barbara W. Klaser


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April 2009

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



March 2009

03-27-2009 11:57AM: Crane flies and a flying cat
03-21-2009 05:57PM: Premio Dardos Award



February 2009

02-24-2009 02:56PM: Watch the skies for Comet Lulin
02-06-2009 01:55PM: On not being in such a hurry



January 2009

01-19-2009 10:25AM: What’s the appropriate response to this?
01-11-2009 09:34PM: Favorite things



December 2008

12-11-2008 03:59PM: Doing laundry
12-09-2008 05:28PM: Plane crash



November 2008

11-27-2008 11:06AM: Thankful for rain, I think
11-04-2008 09:44AM: Wishes granted



October 2008

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



September 2008

09-13-2008 10:38AM: Shelob is dead, but Ike rages on



July 2008

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



May 2008

05-30-2008 03:27PM: Gardening habit or gardening revolution?
05-17-2008 04:42PM: We’re cat people — even the dog



April 2008

04-18-2008 04:00PM: Spring swelter



March 2008

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



February 2008

02-23-2008 02:45PM: More birds
02-15-2008 12:18PM: Still winter
02-02-2008 10:30AM: Groundhog Day



January 2008

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



December 2007

12-23-2007 03:03PM: Trading holiday madness for holiday joy
12-09-2007 01:58PM: Snow



November 2007

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



October 2007

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



September 2007

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



August 2007

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



July 2007

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



June 2007

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



May 2007

05-27-2007 06:34PM: A golden afternoon at Silver Lake
05-16-2007 08:14PM: Judging the news



April 2007

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



March 2007

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



February 2007

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



January 2007

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



December 2006

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



November 2006

11-24-2006 02:50PM: A little late but Happy Thanksgiving
11-09-2006 02:11PM: A revolution of Kindness



October 2006

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



September 2006

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?



August 2006

08-31-2006 04:40PM: Oops! I almost missed it
08-18-2006 11:22PM: Water
08-07-2006 03:28PM: Literary pets



July 2006

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?



June 2006

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



May 2006

05-30-2006 03:49PM: Writing for yourself
05-27-2006 01:44PM: What good is hope?
05-10-2006 04:11PM: Gone Fishing



April 2006

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?



March 2006

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



February 2006

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



January 2006

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?



December 2005

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



November 2005

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?



October 2005

10-25-2005 09:03PM: Why continue writing fiction?
10-09-2005 04:27PM: Breaking the rules



September 2005

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



August 2005

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?



July 2005

07-16-2005 08:06PM: Writing but not blogging
07-02-2005 04:24PM: Wordless journeys



June 2005

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



May 2005

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



April 2005

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



March 2005

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



February 2005

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



January 2005

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



December 2004

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



November 2004

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



October 2004

10-31-2004 01:27PM: Verse of the Vampyre by Diana Killian
10-26-2004 11:05AM: Why We Write



September 2004

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



July 2004

07-19-2004 03:12PM: Who Is This Shrinking Violet Person Anyway?



June 2004

06-30-2004 12:00PM: Shadows Fall



October 2003

10-21-2003 12:00PM: High Rhymes and Misdemeanors by Diana Killian



November 2001

11-28-2001 12:00PM: To Wear The White Cloak by Sharan Newman



July 2001

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



April 2001

04-25-2001 12:00PM: Canis by Robert E. Armstrong



February 2001

02-17-2001 12:00PM: Beacon Street Mourning by Dianne Day
02-17-2001 12:00PM: Hair Raiser by Nancy J. Cohen

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