Dear Readers,
Our intrepid website editors have had a few anxious moments of late in thinking about how to keep the website going, because they always need more stories from out there in You-All Land. So, here’s a KISS idea. I call it “One-Liners” because that’s all anyone needs to write in order to be published. Short and sweet, keep it simple. Of course, if you write two lines, or a few, that’s very good! And if your brain is firing on all cylinders, don’t hold back.
To help spark our aging brain cells, I will post a theme and if you relate to it, you just email, snail mail, or call in a comment about your own experience to Marilyn, Fred, or Diane.
Of course, a photo is most desirable (you know the drill, if you haven’t figured out how to send photos by email, ask a kid).
As the comments come in, they will be published as stand-alone features just as our longer stories are. We may hold them a few days in order to accumulate several to be published at the same time. Because they will be short, we need to sprinkle a lot of them on the web page. Easy-to-write, easy-to-read.
So let’s get started. Here is our first theme: Pet Names for Our Pets.
Question: What is your pet’s name and what do you actually call
him/her?
I had a beautiful Siberian Husky named Rubles. She loved to get out and run around the neighborhood, so one time I left the dining room window open and came into the room just in time to see her bust the screen and rip down the street. I raced out the door and yelled, “Ruby, don’t take your love to town.”
I lived in Texas, after all.
We named one mutt Stella so I could stand on the porch in my tank top and do my Marlon Brando imitation…. It was also a grandmother’s name ( the frosty one).