Do you wake up in the morning with the plot for the world's greatest novel formulating in your brain? Not every morning, but about once a week I do. Sometimes I forget most of it before I can write it down. But, I write non-fiction so the ideas are sitting on paper in a folder in my desk. I'd like to write mysteries, maybe horror but it wouldn't be icky stuff. I thought about writing romances because they would be easy, they seem to be a formula more than a story. Put it on the list for someday.

For now I'm working with non-fiction and I do love it. For me its a combination of teaching the world and learning more myself. Each time I research one idea I find another dozen from there. Life is great.

This is the newsletter, you are the guinea pig.

It is so easy to slip into my mind and spill out the Home and Garden newsletter, finding the links is an adventure of sensual pleasure. I draw on my memories, my spirit and my basic likes and dislikes and the newsletter is built, it all comes together.

This one though... I lack focus, maybe I'm too close to the topic to be able to stand back, take a deep breath and just let it come to me. I want to force it. As if I have to prove myself each time.

So here we are, another week and a jumble of links culled from BackWash. The links are good, I checked most of them. Something is just not hitting the mark and you are my guinea pigs until I figure out just what mark I'm missing.

Send suggestions, comments, feedback. There are no cheap seats juts cheap shots.