Marian Allen's Blog
November 29, 2025
Caturday: Chickie Displaced
#Caturday #cats #catsofinstagram #cats_of_instagram #blackandwhitecats #Chickie #MamzelleChickieLaSilk HELLO! My name is CHICKIE! Adi took over the bed last night! I went in to go to bed at Mommy’s feet, and Adi was right next to her. I did NOT want to be in bed with…
November 27, 2025
Traditional Thanksgiving Day Story — For A Given Value of "Traditional”
#Thanksgiving #FreeShortStory #writingprompt Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate. To those who don’t: Smoke ’em if you got ’em. Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday, because it’s the least commercialized. Or is it? The Cautionary Tale of Silas Rockport by Marian Allen Silas Rockport was the…
November 25, 2025
Food Tuesday: Score!
#FoodTuesday #writingprompt Look what I scored at the grocery! YES! If you don’t know about Meyer lemons, here’s some of what The Spruce Eats says about them: Meyer lemons are believed to be a cross between a regular lemon and a mandarin orange. The fruit…
November 24, 2025
Monday Recommends and Nail Art: Lifeboat and Leaves (Leafs?)
#MondayRecommends #NailArt #nails #Maniology #HelloManiology #ManiologyAmbassador #MomGoth10discountcode #writingprompt Okay, so I’m late posting. So sue me. ANYWAY, I didn’t sell anything at From The Ground Up bookstore at Lagrange, but I bought a couple of things. One was my blind date with a book package,…
November 22, 2025
Caturday: Tipper Under Attack
#Caturday #cats #catsofinstagram #cats_of_instagram #whitecats #Tipper #TipperLordSnowbottom #SirSniffsalot Hi, there! I’m Tipper Allen, and guess what? That meany-cobeany Adi is just the worst! She sits on the landing and growls at me if I go down to the food and litter boxes or up from…
November 20, 2025
Thursday Doors: Postcard from LaGrange
#ThursdayDoors #LaGrange #Kentucky #FromTheGroundUp #writingprompt Per Bastet did a book signing at From The Ground Up bookstore and cafe. I’m always happy to go to LaGrange, the only town I’ve ever visited that has a train that runs along main street a couple of times…
November 18, 2025
Food Tuesday: Pear Salad
#FoodTuesday #vegetarian #writingprompt This was lunch yesterday. Pear, feta, walnuts, honey, and lemon juice. SO GOOD! A WRITING PROMPT FROM ME TO YOU: fruit and nuts MA
November 17, 2025
Monday Recommends and Nail Art: Blind and Cracked
#MondayRecommends #NailArt #nails #Maniology #HelloManiology #ManiologyAmbassador #MomGoth10discountcode #writingprompt First, regular readers may have noticed that Peanut didn’t post yesterday. She’s still invisible, so I decided she might as well be inaudible, as well. Although she’s far from inaudible. I hear her romping around up there…
November 13, 2025
Thursday Doors: More From Turtle in Porto
#ThursdayDoors #writingprompt I forgotted to post last week. But the pictures are still in my folder, so HERE THEY ARE! Aren’t they fabulous? And what a friend, to think of me on such a trip! Thank you, Turtle! A WRITING PROMPT FROM ME TO YOU:…
November 11, 2025
Food Tuesday: An Almost Vegan Feast
#FoodTuesday #vegan #vegetarian #writingprompt This isn’t vegetarian, but it would have been vegan if I hadn’t cooked the kale with jowl bacon, so don’t cook it with jowl bacon if you want it to be vegetarian/vegan. This was the last of the farmers market hauls.…
