Pat's Pond

My Grammy's Poem: A true story Armistice - And Irony I can see them yet, as they marched away, So debonair, so brave, so gay! I...

I have been using Google Chrome almost since its debut.  A few years ago, I noticed that many new computers offer only Edge.  Since I use ma...

Just apropos of nothing in particular. JJ Leander is my pen name, and I now have five books out. Two are racy novelettes, and three are re...

CELEBRATE ADVENT! In honor of the days leading up to His birth on Christmas Night, MEN SHALL DREAM will be offered FREE, so that you can ...

http://www.amazon.com/Men-Shall-Dream-Josephs-Story-ebook/dp/B018WORCSI/ref=sr_1_2?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1449491846&sr=1-2...

Wow!  Facebook is a huge time suck.  The worst part is how everyone expects everyone else to check it out a couple times a day.  I am a once...

Armistice - And Irony I can see them yet, as they marched away, So debonair, so brave, so gay! I can see them yet, as they turned t...

I can't even put this post in the MSCompanion.  And I don't have a stupidity blog, so the Pond will have to do. My daughter offere...

TIME HEALS:  THE FIRST NEXUSES is finally published.  Thank you Amazon. The novelette is short enough for a weekend or beach read. If ...

I signed off my other blogs about this time last year.  Big mistake. One year later, and I am ready to drag myself out of depression and...

So I decided to go off my sedative. Last year was one of the worst of my life.  My mother was gravely ill and failing fast.  She told me t...

I should have known.  My sinuses have been stuffed up for a few days, and I couldn't drain them into a tissue.  Sneezing like crazy over...

Weeeeeellll.  I don't have the stick-to-itiveness to keep submitting my manuscript.  It may be all the rejections or it may simply be th...

Same as everyone else, I have joined the ranks of people hoping to lose the winter poundage gained over the holiday season.  It's not li...

Mom died Sunday, September 8, 2013, mid-afternoon after a visit from grandkids.  She died with family by her side. Dad died Sunday, Decemb...