Goodbye, Little Sammy (Yes, Skeptics do Have Feelings…)

Sorry, guys, but I can’t guarantee that I’ll be posting this week except for prescheduled entries, including this one. If you see this, it is because I had to put one of my cats to sleep — a beautiful blue-point Himalayan cat of some 18 years named Sammy, who has been my devoted companion for over 12 years. The pictures accompanying this post are an homage to her. Goodbye old girl…your passing left a hole that will never be filled…

TNQ | Troythulu’s Noontide Query

I tended at first to be somewhat capricious about how I write and what I write on, sometimes putting a post on the proverbial back burner to pursue an idea for an entry that pops into my head in the wee hours of the morning, and usually this works: It’s resulted in some of my favorite free-form pieces, though I supplement this by posting on news events and listening to podcasts, discussing things with friends, and so on.

I’ve increased my inspirational resources considerably since this same time last year on this blog, and I fully intend to improve on this. Sometimes I just don’t feel like posting, for whatever reason, even on weekdays.

So I don’t.

Scheduling posting for entries ahead of time by the server, sometimes by several days or more, has proven very useful. I try not to rely so much on those unreliable flashes of inspiration for that reason.

As much as I used to depend on that at first, I’m getting better about that. This is cool by me. So here’s today’s query:

How do you get ideas about what to write? What do you do?

TNQ is a daily question that I pose to you, my readers, and please, do feel free to comment — I’m not an ogre. As per the title, TNQ is published each weekday at 12:00 PM