Cynthia Gregory 10 minute Writing Exercise – no punctuation              PROMPT: Party Line METAPHOR

So much input all the time It’s the Party Line phone lines I remember the TV commercials when I was a little little kid you could call…

Cynthia Gregory 15 minute Writing Exercise       PROMPT: After the end

After the end credits roll, what happens to the movie. Sometimes the audience claps, sometimes they sit in silence, they always get up and leave, leaving behind their trash –…

Cynthia Gregory 5 minutes Writing Exercise – no punctuation              Prompt: Intuition

In mid speech I suddenly looked out the window why I don’t know something alerted me something said Hey Look and I looked there on the approach was my…

Cynthia Gregory 10 minute Writing Exercise           PROMPT: Moment of Truth

As I walked through the doors into the doctor’s office, I started to shake violently. It was the proverbial “moment of truth”. 

Checking IN at the front desk, the assistant…

Cynthia Gregory 5 minutes Writing Exercise       PROMPT: Sacred Space

We were all crammed into the small elevator on the way up to the cramped, small office where every cubicle was already occupied. Everyone scrambled for the Board Room each hoping…

Cynthia Gregory 5 minutes Writing Exercise   Prompt: Crimson

Crimson Peak. A luscious movie by Guillermo del Toro. Victorian Gothic. Just what we love to spend time doing together – watching dark, lavish films. 

We met in film school. Can it…

I found this very wide tie in this luxurious Athens blue and Olympus gold. Made me feel like a total boss today! I needed this in the most Gothic Gourmet way.

It turns out that I am overdue to my…

BIRTHDAY CARD: AI depiction of Beverly Van Pelt as “Bev with the Pearl Earring” next to the portrait of “Girl with the Pearl Earring”

For my birthday, I received this surprising and lovely card from my surprising and lovely inlaws…

Any recommendations for accounting / check writing software? Turns out this is the year for an upgrade on several levels and this is a really important one. Is there a software that you like? Why do you like it? Can…

Not sure when I became obsessed with “foods from before my time”. It’s not like we consciously made an effort to eat “old-timey food” when I was growing up.

We did, however, have a reverence for History. Whether it was…

DATE NIGHT!  We love Prince, and hamming it up for the camera.

We had a fun time at the “When Doves Cry – The Prince Tribute Show”, a multi-talented 8-piece Tribute Show to the music of Prince, performed Prince’s Iconic…

Just like every year, Kitty made herself a comfy spot under the Christmas tree. For weeks she snuggles between gifts and kneads at the tree skirt. Once the festivities are over, she has all the space to herself until we…

Imagine this: you’re walking through an international airport on your way to Costa Rica. You have a backpack on your back, your mobile phone in one hand and a large, extra hot Mocha in the other. People are rushing by…

This is the front door of the St. Joan of Arc Chapel.

Beautiful. Aged. This wooden door was a delight to photograph.

Erected in Chasse-sur-Rhône, France in the 15th century, the Chapel (originally named, Chapelle de St. Martin…

Tilework is something that inspires me.

I took a spontaneous trip to Costa Rica for my birthday and while I was there, I took a lot of photos of tile floors. This photo is from the living room of my…

My Giant Iris finally bloomed after going dormant for five+ years. I was thrilled with the life happening in my April garden when, without warning, a rare hail storm came through dropping large hailstones and causing me some worry that…

We went BIG this year by printing a larger than life Creature From The Black Lagoon!

Setting this up took longer than expected… and next year we will have to come up with a better backing material, but overall, I…

My perfect coffee: Pour over coffee using Costa Rican Brit or Costa Rican 1820 Coffee. 

I use the Bodum Pour Over Coffee set and the Melitta Pour Over Single Cup.

Boil water. Let it rest for a couple of minutes.…

Rain.

Living in California for nearly my whole life means a lot of things to me, and one of the stand-out things is… draught.

Where I live, we have been in water rationing for as long as I can remember…

There can be little doubt, if you know me at all, that I love textures. 

Here is a photo of my Michael Kors blazer. It's fascinating all on its own. 

However, I didn't take a photo of the garment as…

Well, it finally happened! 

A couple of days ago, I broke my USCA Club Nationals Championship Beer Glass from the Club Nationals.

The USCA Club Nationals Championship is the United States Curling Association and the Club National Championship is the…

There is something very self-care about getting HYGGE. Being cozy with a book and a cat in my lap is the way I turn off my ON SWITCH, which seems to always be ON.

I know my grandmother, were she…

Wow! Look at that baby Goth! Photoshoot was at my friend Stephan's house captured a bit of the lifestyle adventure that I have always promoted. Plus who doesn't love an accordion?!  Halloween Mid 2000s

Lifestyle Adventure KEYWORDS:

• FUN
• LIFE-AFFIRMING
• FREE…

One day, I got it in my head to start using up the small bit of yarn that I had leftover from miscellaneous projects of the past. I love these gorgeous colors! So I started to make these multicolored flowers.…

This is a photo from the first photoshoot for The Gothic Gourmet in 1998 after a very active year in my role as the internet personality that started in 1997.

In January 1997, I desperately wanted to throw a Midnight…