Today is a Good Day!

Today is good, today I got up with the moon still smiling down, as it prepared to hand the sky over to the sun. The characters were exactly as I'd left them, frozen in place for almost twenty-four hours. The relief on their faces was evident while they stretched muscles and loosened stiff joints. Yes, I allow them to stretch before we resume.

"Much better than yesterday," Danne Stromgren, the main actor, declares. "You must have knocked out all of that dirt Mister Sandman stuffed between your ears."

My finger traces an earlobe before I can stop it, checking for sand, just in case. I smile at the star of the show, he's prone to fits of man-diva. I can't blame him on this one, however. This time the griping is justified. Yesterday was a scrambled dog's breakfast. Here's a brief replay of what happened.

Time warp to yesterday . . .

Computer on, coffee on the immediate left, within easy grasp, oxygenating greenery to the right, fingers at the ready . . . now type!

abcdebbacon! . . . Hungry! No . . . try again. abc! . . . Hey, is that a cobweb on the corner of the kitchen ceiling?

Sip coffee, ouch! Hot! Sniff oxygenating plant, better! Brain is giving me a dial tone only. Try some research . . . that's it, type in 'wild west, turn of the century' . . . no, stop fingers!

Ooh, soo ugly, yet fascinating! Wingspan of up to six feet? Hmmm . . . take a lot of batter to coat those. Grab some cereal would ya and get back to work! No, Cheerios won't cut it, left over chicken in fridge. Yum, now I'm good. Whoa! The clock is running down. Kids will be up soon.

Dannne . . . whoops, Danne said, "You . . ." Aggh!! "You . . ." YMCA! It's fun to stay at the YMCA! Just go with it for a moment, that's right, tap those fingers on the kitchen table you call a writer's nook.

"Dad, what's for breakfast? I'm hungry!"

(sigh) Return oxygenating plant to windowsill . . . drink up cold coffee . . . close down portal to the nineteenth century Klondike . . . no saving required.

"Here you go."