Here’s an oldie from TKZ emerita Jordan Dane:
JSB’s favorite short story collection
Answer any one or all:
1.) What’s your favorite way to select a character’s name? (Do you have any favorite GO TO resource links?)
2.) Do you care about name origins or meanings?
3.) How do you select names for a character with different ethnic backgrounds?
This is your Halloween post… 🙂 Sorrynotsorry-couldn’t resist.
Moving on–
Tell us about Halloween. Your Halloween.
Meaning, did you participate when growing up (if you have grown up, that is…)?
What was your favorite costume that you wore? Elvis? Casper, the Friendly Ghost?
And do you still celebrate Halloween?
Hmm… “Celebrate” seems like an odd word to use with “Halloween”, doesn’t it? Perhaps we should say “Observe” instead.
And how about saying, “Happy Halloween” to folks? Isn’t that kind of an oxymoron? Who can be happy when surrounded by ghouls, goblins, and ghosts?
Or am I making something out of nothing? (I’m kinda famous for that in my little circle…)
TKZers–please tell us your Halloweeny stories!
“Back in the day, when I was just a wee owlet…”
Can you see yourself here?
Summer’s here!
For some folks, life just continues to drift along on the same road, stretching off into the distance.
No change.
Or here?
But for others, it’s intermission time. What do I mean? If you look up the word vacation in your thesaurus (you have one of those, right?), one of its synonyms is intermission. You know, that break you get to take at the local arts theater, where you’re stuck in a slow-moving river of people heading for the restrooms or the snack bar? Oy!
Here looks good!
But for today, we’re going on vacation.
So, inquiring minds want to know–where are you going?
What is your perfect vacation spot? Will you write while you’re there? (You know I had to ask!)
Image courtesy of Pixabay
First observed as Decoration Day on May 30, 1868, Memorial Day is observed in every state on the last Monday in May.
There is a plethora of information available regarding its origins and which state(s) claim to have celebrated it first.
Barbecues, first camping trips of the year, parades, and flags are locked into my memories about past Memorial Day celebrations. I have many service vets in my family who lost comrades and buddies in various wars through the decades. For me, that’s who it’s about.
TKZers, what does Memorial Day mean to you, and how does your family celebrate it?
My husband’s 30+ year career as an in-home electronics repairman yielded some amazingly funny stories.
Like the one about the folks who kept a bathtub filled with water. Why? Well, it seems they had a horse whose pasture was right outside the bathroom wall.
A horse who would sidle over to the hole they cut in that wall so he could drink out of the bathtub. Who would’ve thought?
My human lets me drink *in* the house! 🙂 (Image courtesy of Pixabay)
And this one he told me just the other day. Seems a lady called and reported her TV would change channels all on its own. Do I hear Twilight Zone music . . .?
Collection of antique remotes
Now this was back in the day before infrared/Bluetooth remotes–instead, they worked with ultrasonic sound to talk to your TV and switch channels when the button was pressed.
My husband reported for duty in her living room, but could find nothing wrong. He said, “Have a nice day,” and left.
What’s your cat’s superpower?
And went back a second time when she called. While there, he observed the channel-switching phenomenon for himself. At the same time the channel magically changed, the lady’s cat jumped off the couch. The cat with a bell on its collar–which rang when he jumped.
My husband jokes that he told the lady to “remove the bell, and that’ll be a hundred dollars, please.”
Okay, it’s your turn, TKZers.
What’s the funniest story you’ve ever heard or told, and have you used it in your writing?
