Sits-tahs! I’m very happy you’re here. Welcome to Rhymes with Safari, so named because way back in 2002, when my blog was an infant, a friend known to me only through the Internet asked how to pronounce my name, Kari. If you read my recent post on the Possession read-along, you’ll see that I don’t knowContinue reading “Today’s Featured Blogger is… me!”
Author Archives: Kari Neumeyer
Last year’s tulips
I try not to be like everyone else, but it’s April and this week’s Photo Challenge is Color. What’s a girl to do? I intended to hit the tulip fields today and take close-ups of individual tulips in different colors, then run them in a circle gallery like the above. But it’s so cold andContinue reading “Last year’s tulips”
Iconic Northwest Rain
Al Roker’s voice rings in my head. Wet weather in the Pacific Northwest. What else is new? This week’s writing challenge felt like a photo challenge as well: Write about something iconic. I mulled over this assignment, asking myself, What is iconic to me? How to capture it visually? What to write about it? InspirationContinue reading “Iconic Northwest Rain”
My Awesome Saturday
Weekly Photo Challenge: A Day in My Life First time using the Gallery feature. Didn’t even know it existed. Daily Post, you may have created a monster.
What Possesses Me
I was tempted to give up on my Possession read-along, but gave it one last push over the weekend, validating my own belief that whatever I’m doing (and therefore whatever I’m reading) is exactly what I’m supposed to be doing (or reading) at this exact moment. It all pays off in the end. My friend MatejContinue reading “What Possesses Me”
Reading List
Since I joined Kim and Lu in their Possession read-along, I’ve been feeling somewhat overwhelmed with all the other books I want to be reading right now. Interestingly, Kim just posted her own list. Here are the books on my immediate to-read list: Beyond Belief: The Secret Lives of Women in Extreme Religions: I am in so loveContinue reading “Reading List”
Lap dog
A few weeks ago, I was revising a scene about an intense encounter between Isis and Leo. As I read it aloud to myself, Mia put both front paws on my thighs like she wanted to crawl up onto my lap. In the nearly two years we’ve had her, she has never crawled onto aContinue reading “Lap dog”
Welcoming Spring Wordless Wednesday Style
Thai meditation music, it’s not just for dogs
An excerpt from Bark and Lunge: The Isis Story, with accompanying soundtrack: The gentle strains of dulcimer music tinkled from the library. I had set a timer in the room where Isis hung out the most. Every day at noon, the CD player clicked on with meditation music I bought in Thailand. Isis never mentionedContinue reading “Thai meditation music, it’s not just for dogs”
Catching up on Possession
If you know anything about me, you know that I get my work done on time. Well ahead of time for the most part. So it is with great shame that I admit a failure to meet my first deadline in my first read-along: A.S. Byatt’s Possession. In my defense, I’ve read it before, andContinue reading “Catching up on Possession”
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