The Velvet Zebra

Category: Just Me

  • Greed.

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    I saw on the Nightly news the other day how people are finding ways to “walk away” from one house while buying a new one. It’s called Buy and Bail, and here’s how it works: You own a house that you borrowed $365,000 to buy, but in today’s market, the house is worth only $219,000…

  • if you need me next week

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    I’ll be here for a few days, at Kalaloch Beach, probably NOT writing as I walk the beach and gaze at the sunsets. Then I’ll be here, in the Hoh Rainforest for a couple of days, most likely NOT writing as I wander through forests of moss and gaze at wild herds of elk (and…

  • don’t you hate it when

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    You hear one of your cats making play-noises in the kitchen, then a little while later you happen to go into the kitchen and find said cat sitting and staring intently at that little space between your counter and your stove? I know we don’t have mice, although one could have fit in that space,…

  • people say the strangest things

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    In case you’ve been wondering if I’ve fallen off the world or anything, for a little while, I did! Actually, August is my busy month, because for one long, 3-day weekend in August, my sister and I “take our act on the road.” In that, we sell our lapidary work at an art show, in…

  • tuff enuff

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    While I’m sitting here, eating lunch, contemplating an interesting revelation, Tuff Enuff comes on the radio and it dawns on me what the issue is. Lemme ‘splain.  I’ve been writing for years, and I’m grateful for that because writers improve with each novel they pen.  As much as I adore Keeper and the sequels, it’s…

  • I don’t do summer

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    As much as I enjoy being outdoors — and I do, very much so — as much as I love my big yard, all the flowers, the chance to be outside with short sleeved shirts and in bare feet . . . I don’t do Summer. Can’t take the heat, you see.  I’m a happy…

  • what does it want from me?!

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    Ever wish you could be a fly on the wall? Well I have one.  It’s sitting on my cubicle wall, just sitting there, staring at me.  I know it’s not dead, I saw it fly there an hour ago. And occasionally it washes itself. But mostly it’s just sitting there, staring at me.  It’s not…

  • 3-days of fire prevention

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    Well the holiday weekend us almost upon us – us American’s, that is. I love 3-day weekends, I have to admit. Who doesn’t? And I have plans for this one. Plans that have nothing to do with the Fourth of July, or BBQing or anything like that. In fact, I plan to do almost nothing…

  • did she, or didn’t she?

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    Ever have one of those days – the kind where you can’t remember if you did something or not? I’m sitting here wondering if I remembered to put on deoderant or not.  It’s one of those routine things that you do religiously without any real conscious thought. Something you do in the morning, when you’re…

  • the truth ain’t out there

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    So, I happen to live directly across an inlet from a massive naval base – it’s where my Father worked all of my life, and where my brother-in-law works now. I grew up here, and with the exception of 10 years spent living and working in downtown Seattle, I’ve been in this town all my…