I think I saw a Leprechaun yesterday.
Although the temperature was only 29 degrees, she was wearing a black tissue top, green tights and the biggest green felt cap I'd ever seen! How magical!
The many medals hanging from her polyester vest were so heavy that she hunched forward a bit. Her awards convinced me that she must be something special and my car sort of swerved toward her. I'm sure I wanted to rub her head for good luck, but after my fender nicked a mailbox, I decided to keep to my path. Sure that she gets lots of strangers approaching her and demanding a touch or two, I didn't want to just be one of the obnoxious crowd.
She was using a walker to get around on NY Ave in Huntington Station...I hope she didn't get injured because a pot of gold fell ON her!
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Friday, March 25, 2011
Accolades for KAFE CASTRO
Thank you to my fans for reading and reviewing KAFE CASTRO (Mom! I told you to post as anonymous!):
Highly Recommended!!!by Anonymous
Customer Rating:5 Stars
Imaginative, witty & an easy read. A great escape into the mind of someone who really knows how to capture our world of silent musings and transpose them into amusing vignettes that we can all appreciate.
Seinfeldesque likeability. Takes those quirky little unconscious yet everyday situations that we all experience into the forefront of our reality.
A GREAT READ!!!by Anonymous
Customer Rating:5 Stars
So funny, I could really relate to some of the crazy events this poor girl went through. I'm telling everyone I know to read this.
If not for the readers who took the time to laugh and express their emotions over the train wreck that is our heroine, KC, I might have given up the idea that I could be providing some type of service to the masses.
My husband is glad that you have given me a purpose...now maybe I'll be too busy to dig through his tool box for fun. After the pound cake batter incident, his drill just hasn't been the same. And maybe those really long bits that I used to hold up my tomato plants will be returned to their rightful owner. Not sure if I will stop using the table saw as a bread cutter though...I can't get those clean cuts with just any old knife!
If it isn't over the top, it isn't KAFE CASTRO!
Highly Recommended!!!by Anonymous
Customer Rating:5 Stars
Imaginative, witty & an easy read. A great escape into the mind of someone who really knows how to capture our world of silent musings and transpose them into amusing vignettes that we can all appreciate.
Seinfeldesque likeability. Takes those quirky little unconscious yet everyday situations that we all experience into the forefront of our reality.
A GREAT READ!!!by Anonymous
Customer Rating:5 Stars
So funny, I could really relate to some of the crazy events this poor girl went through. I'm telling everyone I know to read this.
If not for the readers who took the time to laugh and express their emotions over the train wreck that is our heroine, KC, I might have given up the idea that I could be providing some type of service to the masses.
My husband is glad that you have given me a purpose...now maybe I'll be too busy to dig through his tool box for fun. After the pound cake batter incident, his drill just hasn't been the same. And maybe those really long bits that I used to hold up my tomato plants will be returned to their rightful owner. Not sure if I will stop using the table saw as a bread cutter though...I can't get those clean cuts with just any old knife!
If it isn't over the top, it isn't KAFE CASTRO!
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Joy Comes in Many Different Forms
To the cheerleader at the Massapequa bus stop on Sunrise Hwy: You go girl! Kafe was the one who drove by you tonight honking and yelling, "I whip my hair back and forth" so you'd have something to shake to. While hanging her bra out the window and speeding past, Kafe had visions of teaching you how to wax your thick chin hair. In return, she planned on asking you to teach her your "stomp with the quick doggy style stance" move. Your culottes and rhythm are an inspiration to us all! Here's to you...Kafe style!
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Life IS art...
I watched "Catfish" the other night...this movie epitomizes the reason why I write the short stories I do.
There is no better story than the real ones...the "I've temporarily lost my mind and done this outlandish thing" or "I was born this way and was never taught any better" tales that shock us into laughter and the retelling of things we've thought about doing or saying, but never had the guts or the temporary "filter meltdown" to.
I've had some very "real moments" I'd like to forget...and I'm sure anyone who saw them either wishes they hadn't or had something to talk and laugh about for the next few days.
What is your most memorable "real moment"?
There is no better story than the real ones...the "I've temporarily lost my mind and done this outlandish thing" or "I was born this way and was never taught any better" tales that shock us into laughter and the retelling of things we've thought about doing or saying, but never had the guts or the temporary "filter meltdown" to.
I've had some very "real moments" I'd like to forget...and I'm sure anyone who saw them either wishes they hadn't or had something to talk and laugh about for the next few days.
What is your most memorable "real moment"?
Thursday, March 3, 2011
World Book Day
Today is World Book Day
Comment on this post and let us know what your top 3 faves are!
Kafe from my short story, Kafe Castro loves Tama Janowitz's oldie but goodie: "The Male Cross-Dressers Support Group", Augusten Burroughs "Magical Thinking" (shout out to you, Augusten, in the award winning, Sunday Drives Done Mojo Style by CF Winn), and "Wishful Drinking" by Carrie Fisher.
What are your all time favorites?
Comment on this post and let us know what your top 3 faves are!
Kafe from my short story, Kafe Castro loves Tama Janowitz's oldie but goodie: "The Male Cross-Dressers Support Group", Augusten Burroughs "Magical Thinking" (shout out to you, Augusten, in the award winning, Sunday Drives Done Mojo Style by CF Winn), and "Wishful Drinking" by Carrie Fisher.
What are your all time favorites?
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Lunchables
Help me. I'm hungry.
So one morning, I'm editing SUKI, when my daughter sends me a MAYDAY text:
"Sam has no lunch. Please call his father and tell him to bring him some. I have to go into class now."
What?! My beloved godson has no lunch?! He's a teenager...at a very crucial point in his growth cycle...he needs to eat every meal!
I stop everything and call my friend, but he doesn't answer.
I leave him a VM:
"Corey, this is your BF calling... from New York... to let you know that your son...in Colorado... has no lunch. He called my daughter...in New York...to ask her to get in touch with you...in Colorado...so you can bring him the lunchable that's on the shelf in the refrigerator. Unfortunately, she has to be in class now, and is not allowed to use her cell phone, so she SOS'd me to help."
My friend does not respond all day, but I have faith that the law is the same in Colorado as it is in New York, and that the school will allow Sam to eat the same hockey puck burgers and limp salads that we all ate in high school, and that tomorrow his parents can pay the cafeteria back.
When I'm sure school has let out, I text my godson and ask, "So what did you do for lunch today?"
He says, "Nothing. But then my mom's hair stylist dropped off some food at the end of the day. I ate it on the bus on the way to my basketball game, and then I got a hot dog and popcorn after the game."
???
So, wait. That's how it's done??
I would LOVE to call up MY hair stylist, ROB, at SALON 3028 and say,
"Hey Rob, Ali left her cell phone at home and I she's gonna need to text me after school to pick her up from her play practice. I know that I just interrupted you cutting John Edward (the famous psychic) to come to the phone, and I know that it can take weeks to get an appointment with you sometimes because your salon is so busy, but would you mind dropping everything, and running this over to her? Thanks, you're a doll! SMOOCHES!"
I'm gonna call him tomorrow and see how that goes...
Her blogs have been syndicated on multiple sites including The Masquerade Crew. More posts like these can be found at Humor Outcasts and The Patch where she is a regular contributor.
FOLLOW me on Twitter, Facebook, Google +, and CF_Winn on Instagram.
So one morning, I'm editing SUKI, when my daughter sends me a MAYDAY text:
"Sam has no lunch. Please call his father and tell him to bring him some. I have to go into class now."
What?! My beloved godson has no lunch?! He's a teenager...at a very crucial point in his growth cycle...he needs to eat every meal!
I stop everything and call my friend, but he doesn't answer.
 |
| Send Out Sustenance |
I leave him a VM:
"Corey, this is your BF calling... from New York... to let you know that your son...in Colorado... has no lunch. He called my daughter...in New York...to ask her to get in touch with you...in Colorado...so you can bring him the lunchable that's on the shelf in the refrigerator. Unfortunately, she has to be in class now, and is not allowed to use her cell phone, so she SOS'd me to help."
My friend does not respond all day, but I have faith that the law is the same in Colorado as it is in New York, and that the school will allow Sam to eat the same hockey puck burgers and limp salads that we all ate in high school, and that tomorrow his parents can pay the cafeteria back.
When I'm sure school has let out, I text my godson and ask, "So what did you do for lunch today?"
He says, "Nothing. But then my mom's hair stylist dropped off some food at the end of the day. I ate it on the bus on the way to my basketball game, and then I got a hot dog and popcorn after the game."
???
So, wait. That's how it's done??
 |
| Drop those scissors! We have a crisis! |
I would LOVE to call up MY hair stylist, ROB, at SALON 3028 and say,
"Hey Rob, Ali left her cell phone at home and I she's gonna need to text me after school to pick her up from her play practice. I know that I just interrupted you cutting John Edward (the famous psychic) to come to the phone, and I know that it can take weeks to get an appointment with you sometimes because your salon is so busy, but would you mind dropping everything, and running this over to her? Thanks, you're a doll! SMOOCHES!"
I'm gonna call him tomorrow and see how that goes...
CF Winn is the award-winning author of The COFFEE BREAK SERIES, a quirky group of short stories meant to be read while on break or in the waiting room of the doctor’s office. Her first novella, SUKI, has been grabbing hearts and hugging souls all over the United States.
You can now order SUKI in paperback at http://hopress-shorehousebooks.com/cf-winn/ or at BOOK REVUE, one of the nation’s largest independent bookstores, by email at info@bookrevue.com Learn more about SUKI at BOOK REVUE.
Her blogs have been syndicated on multiple sites including The Masquerade Crew. More posts like these can be found at Humor Outcasts and The Patch where she is a regular contributor.
FOLLOW me on Twitter, Facebook, Google +, and CF_Winn on Instagram.
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