With (FMF)
I'm very excited to again this week join a talented group of women who connect each Friday in an online, unedited flash mob free-write based on a one-word prompt from our fearless leader Kate Motaung. My timer is set for 5 minutes; let's see where the word...
It’s that Most Intimidating Time of the Year!
Andy Williams (yes, that Andy Williams -- the sweater-loving crooner) wrote the words we all know and even sing but too often don't really live.Ask 100 people to describe in just one word their own December and Christmas season and you'll undoubtedly hear words...
Still (Five Minute Friday)
I'm very excited to again this week join a talented group of women who connect each Friday in an online, unedited flash mob free write based on a one-word prompt from our fearless leader Kate Motaung. My timer is set for 5 minutes; let's see where the word...
It’s mid-October . . . Do You Know What That Means?
The 1/2-way point of October 2018 passed just two days ago.That means we are half-way through pumpkin spice everything.We are also just 13 days away from adorable little costume-clad children and pre-teens wearing a football jersey or their mom's housecoat...
Best-Laid Plans and All That
This past spring, once I decided I was going to retire, I began contemplating what I was going to do with all the newly-freed time available to me after the end of May.I bought a black-and-white marbled composition book -- a long-time, very inexpensive guilty...
Birthday Musings
This past Saturday, July 21, marked 9 years since my husband was told he had stage 4, inoperable cancer. He was only 47; he had exhibited absolutely no symptoms; there was no family history at all; he had just carried, along with my son, a couch up 12 flights of...
Thank You for Asking, Facebook!
"What's on your mind?"When I first joined the biggest time-sucker of all time Facebook and saw that question, I wasn't quite sure how to respond.I'm a very literal person, and I am (contrary to a few, albeit infamous spectacular incidents) an...
Decisions, Decisions
I think I hold the record for the longest time taken to choose a new couch.If you don't believe me, take my picture to any furniture store in the southeast quarter of the great state of Missouri. Sales associates in every one will no doubt remember me.On the other...
Sharing the Hair-Brush Microphone
I've always loved road trips. As a child, I looked forward to our family's annual vacation as much for the long car ride that would take us to our destination as I did the destination itself.In the weeks and months leading up to the trip, I would envision the...
A Tale of Two Guys
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times . . . Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two CitiesMy local big box pet supply store cannot by any stretch of the imagination be compared to France. But the French Revolution, or at least the famous opening lines...