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A Desk is a Desk is a Desk

 Serious Whimsy  14 Responses »
Jan 212015
 

When Macho Guy and I relocate to Florida in the winter, the most difficult aspect of the move for me is to do without with my computer desk—and my HP Officejet All-in-One—for the duration of our stay in the Sunshine State. ::sniffle, sob::

Home Office Corner Computer Desk

I absolutely adore my golden oak computer desk. It is the anchor corner of my writer’s cave. It has shelves for books, nooks for electronic devices and for a wheeled computer case, slots for music CDs [Mozart, especially, for when I’m plotting], slide out under-desktop shelves for an external keyboard and track pad, drawers for files and office supplies, and a large flat surface on which to set an external monitor and spread notes out—and make a ginormous mess, prominently featuring several tall untidy stacks of papers, each representing a different work in progress. Nirvana. Sheer nirvana. Continue reading »

Worth a Thousand Words

 Serious Whimsy  6 Responses »
Jan 142015
 

That old quotation—a picture is worth a thousand words—is not easy for a writer to hear. Words are the tools of our craft after all. So, I like to interpret the quotation to mean that it takes a thousand words to describe a picture, or any visual image for that matter. It has nothing to do with actual worth. Pictures and words are equally worthy. I think we can all agree on that, can’t we?

Having said that, I confess that in addition to my lifelong love affair with the written word, I love pictures. A photograph is a moment frozen in time, a moment I can recall and relive every time I look at it. On past vacation trips, I lugged a Nikon F 35mm SLR camera, plus two additional lenses and film, everywhere we went. These days, whenever I see something that speaks to me visually, out comes my iPhone 5s and click goes its digital camera, but not immediately—not until I frame the image perfectly and take several shots to make certain I captured its essence. I stopped to take so many photos on our last trip that Macho Guy became impatient and started calling me Ansel Adams. I patiently explained that taking a memorable photograph is an art. He wasn’t convinced. Continue reading »

Another Year Went By Already?

 Serious Whimsy  14 Responses »
Jan 072015
 

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It cannot possibly be 2015 already. Where did the time go? I cannot believe how fast the years go by of late. Years lasted a lot longer when I was a kid. Of course, I was still in school so it is understandable that a year dragged on into infinity back then—until summer vacation, which went by in a flash.

It seems like only yesterday that I was making New Year’s Resolutions for 2014, which I didn’t keep for very long. I didn’t make one single New Year’s Resolution for 2015. To tell you the truth, I’m against the concept of New Year’s Resolutions. Continue reading »

Angels and Santa and Scrooge, O Joy!

 Serious Whimsy  8 Responses »
Dec 242014
 

Jolana Malkston 4Leading up to Christmas Eve, while others go crazy shopping for Christmas gifts until the stores close their doors, I go a little bananas binging on my favorite Christmas guilty pleasure: a marathon of Christmas movies. Be they classic or contemporary, nostalgic or nutty, heartwarming or heart stopping, or maybe all of the above, I try to watch all my favs to the point of exhaustion and major eyestrain.

 

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Hidden [From Myself] Treasures

 Serious Whimsy  7 Responses »
Dec 172014
 

Jolana Malkston 4I hide things from myself. Well, not deliberately. I put them away in a safe place, and then the location of the safe place is so safe that it’s safe from me as well because its whereabouts are no longer known to me.

In the passage of time, I forget whatever it was that I put in the safe place that is so safe that it’s safe from me as well because its whereabouts are no longer known to me.

I’ve been told I’m a pack rat because I never throw anything out. I dispute that. I believe pack rats know exactly what they have and where they put it, and they keep their stuff because they like it and want it. I never throw anything out because I don’t remember where I put it and don’t remember having it in the first place. Not a pack rat.

Now that we have that settled, we can move on. Continue reading »

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