Joanna Bourne

Rives Park -- local here -- has a nest of copperheads. Some poor dog got bit and they're worried whether he'll make it or not. Anima...

I'm drinking a cup of coffee before dawn and listening to my recently-booted furnace wheeze into life.  When I get up in these transitio...

 Did my good deed for the day. I saw on my local Next Door loop that somebody had spotted a lost rabbit near me. White bunny with b ears. ...

I did three interviews recently.  One at USA Today Happily Ever After ... http://happyeverafter.usatoday.com/2017/08/15/keira...

Very much like me except for the hat Spent the morning with writer friends, being a good writer, working hard on the WIP. Got more th...

Me, embracing the chaotic I don’t like to expect things. If you don’t go about anticipating wonderful things, you don’t get disa...

I'd been hearing this kinda fluttery banging for a bit, while I went type type type type and ignored it. "What's that?...

--> I want to let Mandy-the-Dog free to run about the woodland a-chasing of the deer ( hums , “My heart’s in the Highlands....

The cup that underwent various adventures It’s cool enough I’m wearing my sweatshirt when I go out. It’s athletic gray and says, “Unive...

Not my cat, Not my butterfly, alas I look out over the dooryard, which is an exercise in ragged untidiness. The more or less trimmed...

--> Friday, about midday, I was sitting in my big comfy chair, writing. Pretty much immersed in Paris in 1730. I looked up an...

We're coming to the end of summer here. Lots of birdcall in the woods and the cicadas are making a racket all night long. ...

I don't forget the animals at Christmas. They may not know what's going on, but they know it...

Joanna here , talking about some of the animals who share my world. I moved up to the mountains not so very long ago and, in the fulln...

Nothing too exciting to write about, but the mood struck me anyhow.  Worked a little in the morning at the cafe. Creative barista is c...

And the earthquake . . . We are 30 miles from the epicenter, so we got the full surround-sound experience. The house shook quite a bit. ...

Having spent all yesterday looking into Regency cats, I will now post pictures of me and my cat.  My inspiration is a link the Most Excell...

Talking about the cats of Regency England.   What kind of cats can our characters expect to encounter as they go about their adventures...

My cat, (and me,) making a guest appearance in today's blog post at 'Isn't it Romanctic?' I'm about halfway down the p...

Boxsitting Joanna here, pondering that puzzling phenomenon of the holiday season -- boxsitting. The affinity of cats for boxes remains on...