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Can We Talk 2

by Pumpkin Harvest

Rated: 13+ · Book · Family · #2058371

Musings on anything.

My blog was filled up. I'm too lazy to clean it out. So I started a new one.

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10 Most Recent Blog Comments:

foxtale

Oct 14, 2024 at 12:20pm
In response to "Handbell Reunion"

Nice! Now my head is ringing -

...From the tintinnabulation that so musically wells
From the bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells
From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells...
(Phil Ochs)

...Ding, dong, ding, dong
That is their song
With joyful ring
All caroling...
(Mykola Leontovych)

tracker

Sep 4, 2024 at 2:10am
In response to "Celebrating the National Holiday"

I love personal experience stories. I feel like I was in that smelly train car trying to keep things together. You write really well.

tracker

Sep 4, 2024 at 2:06am
In response to "Low Country Shrimp Boil"

My inquiring mind is itching to know how the family meal went. I have a nephew who traditional does this broil on New Year’s Day. I was there once. No sides. I loved the potatoes and corn. I don’t like fish. I did eat lobster once in Mexico after drinking enough wine to give it no identifiable taste other than the taste of the dripping butter I dipped it in.

tracker

Sep 4, 2024 at 1:59am
In response to "Bugs and Bees"

Hi! I am tracker. have been reading your blog tonight. I am to send you a badge in the birthday badge exchange. I don’t believe I have seen you around so came over to see what’s cookin’

Wordsmitty ✍️

Aug 15, 2024 at 8:51pm
In response to "Bugs and Bees"

Squirrels don't like daffodils either. We used to plant them next to the tulips to keep the furry tails from digging them up. We also had wisteria that would spread everywhere and it would send roots underground and quickly pop up nearby if we didn't pay attention.

It's amazing how many little flyers there are to come by for a visit and maybe a snack, but they leave the plants intact.

Kåre เลียม Enga

Aug 13, 2024 at 2:41am
In response to "Working In the Yard"

I remember having a garden.

These days I just have houseplants and one lonely portulaca that came up by seed and has bloomed this past week. I've been "home" for three months and the plants have responded well. But, I long for Thailand.

I water often. Montana is mostly hot and dry in the Summer.

Humble Poet PNG

Aug 11, 2024 at 9:38pm
In response to "What I Believe About Me"

Of the five things you wrote that you believe about yourself, the last two far outweigh the first three. I've not read many things you've written but I intend to do so, very soon. What I have read makes me believe one thing about you --- that you're a pretty remarkable person.

As for me, I don't believe anything at all about myself, because I lie to me too much. I don't make New Year Resolutions, but I have made one new life resolution. I am resolved to keep living until I die. It sounds like you've made a similar resolution. I'm glad I've met you.

🌕 HuntersMoon

Jun 28, 2024 at 4:16pm
In response to "Plumbing Issues Solved"

Ahhhh. The wonders of the modern world

. Isn't it funny how we take things like electricity and plumbing for granted... until we don't have them. Happy for you!

foxtale

Mar 10, 2024 at 1:46pm
In response to "Famous Guests for Dinner"

Einstein, Aristotle, Honest Abe, Davey Crockett
ok, I see a problem.... the first two would talk to each other, you'd be odd one out,
the second two would talk together, and again you'd be odd one out! LOL

Maybe invite Mary and Martha from the Bible...
except which one would you get stuck with? LOL

Fathertymme, "Cold Durry Days"

Mar 2, 2024 at 9:59pm
In response to "What I Believe About Me"

I would say you are on target, Go for it. I have always said the Grim Reaper will need to sneak up behind me and catch me of guard. And then I will wrestle him.

May 2, 2023 at 3:05pm

#1049131

Happy Endings--Do We Need Them?

Years ago I posted a romance that didn't end well on this site site. A reviewer told me I should have a happy ending as required by the genre. I couldn't go back and redirect my characters. They had a life of their own. I have mulled this over ever since, noting in Nicholas Sparks stories they usually "get together", even for a bittersweet ending, I finally concluded that this was not my genre, and stopped trying. I hadn't given much thought to it before then,

I concluded that I could not write romances with happy endings because I had no real experience to lean on. I've only had bad relationships, and a very bad marriage. Why would I think I could write a romance except as a fantasy?

Then last night, while I was sick and unable to sleep, I watched the 1937 version of Prisoner of Zenda. Holy Moley! A romance with a very sad, if noble, ending. This started the ball rolling. What about Romeo and Juliet and all those great classic operas? No happy endings there. So I checked it out on The Web. It turns out to be a big controversial topic. You get into "feminine" versus "masculine" writing. The great romances are usually classified with another genre such as history or adventure. It turns out you don't have to have a happy ending unless you're catering to the cheap paperback audience.

So if you want your romantic leads to go astray, commit murder or move to separate countries, go for it. You're just writing about real life.

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