Welcome to my new site! I know, I know… I made myself a new one just last spring. I loved my new-old Posterous website. In fact I still do. It’s just that I now need a full-fledged domain with more content possibilities and email. Look around and let me know how you like it. FYI, the […]
It is said that a picture is worth a thousand words. True – but which words? In the case of my sepia flower, the thousand words distills down to exactly two: Cathryn Louis. As my profile avatar, it is on just about every site I’ve joined. Because I’ve been involved in social media and portions […]
Even now, in the age of computer games, puzzles are my thing. The more pieces there are, the better I like them. Creating the ‘big picture’ is thrilling. For a few years now, there has been only one puzzle on my table. I’ve fit pieces, pondered a little, fit more pieces, pondered a bit more… […]
My characters are not based on real people. Sometimes I wish that they were. But then, I would have to fictionalize them, which would make them not at all the same. Since that’s so, it’s probably best that they live only in my imagination. I love inventing people. If I were a gamer, I would […]
Artists – painters, sculptors, authors, poets, et al – express emotion with their work. Authors creating characters that show only one emotion is akin to painters rendering on the canvas in only one color, or at worst, only one hue of that color. Making lists of emotional attributes works for some authors; interviewing them works […]
Chaos is here. Wait…that’s not true. I may as well own it. Whiplash or not, I MADE the chaos.My life is – and always will be – a mashup. I’m into more than just a single theme, or even variations on that theme. But it’s my choice whether it will be an artful mashup or have […]
Something new has appeared, exploding my carefully managed elements of change into chaos. Did I go looking for it? Did it fall in my lap? It doesn’t matter. However it got here, I have welcomed it. Now I have to tame the chaos it created; regain control of my journey down the yellow brick road […]
Follow the yellow brick road! Hopefully, I’ll fare better than the travelers who took the original one to Oz. As long as I avoid the poppy fields, it’s a win. The only question is whether there will be an audience beyond the curtain. Publishing statistics indicate that the most likely scenario is to pull back […]
Lately, I’ve been awful at keeping promises to myself. That’s the problem with making them before I’ve given thought to a situation. This time, the promise I’ve broken is that I would stay out of the Fifty Shades of Grey debate. But – here I am talking about it. The ‘net – especially the blogosphere […]
Back when IBM ruled the southern tip of San Jose, California, there was a tiny deli that had one of the best sandwiches in the universe. The sandwich was called the Avocado Undecided, and was composed of two thick slices of white bread, hand-made sun-dried tomato mayonnaise, bay shrimp and a whole sliced avocado. It was served open-faced, […]
