While I was swimming laps, Mara was taking her turn on the little Travel Scrabble game balanced on her lap. I came back dripping, grabbed for a towel with one hand and picked up a snapped shut tile of miniature letters with the other. Then I sat down on the lounge chair and laughed. “I […]
1. You know how my blog statement says, “Whenever I don’t know exactly what it is I’m doing and it borders on wasting my time, I call it research?” Well this is how that works: 2. Bonnie the Wordsmith had a post titled “Under the Weather.” In it she admits that she doesn’t know what […]
1. Role model 2. Pink clique 3. Fall Fashion statement 4. Fresh faces 5. Attendance taking 6. Most likely to be teacher’s pet
Sometimes I think having chronic fatigue is something like having a drinking problem. When I partake in a social life, I live it up large, but soon I have to sneak away to find a place to sleep it off. As I rest in my own little world, hearing the voices and sounds of others […]
The following was published in the Floyd Press on August 9, 2007. Local poets stepped up their presence at FloydFest this year by way of a stage in the Global Village. We moved from our soapbox stand under the Poetree at the festival entrance because with continuous bands playing on two near-by stages, we could […]
I’m working this weekend, providing respite foster care for a man with developmental disabilities, and so I wasn’t planning to do my regular Sunday Scribblings. But then, while stealing some time on the computer as my friend was listening to his weather radio, I found myself reading a blog post that gave me goose bumps. […]
Although my writer’s bio says that “Dear Abby, How can I get rid of freckles?” was my first published piece at the age of 11, my writing career officially began the first time I was paid for my writing. I was a full-time young mother at the time who couldn’t afford a subscription to my […]
1. Blogger, Absolute Vanilla, recently compared the task of editing her new manuscript to childbirth, in contrast to the flush of writing the first draft, which she compared to sex. “I don’t know about the rest of you but for me, the first write of a new story is one magnificent adventure – it’s passionate, […]
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life. – Jean Giraudoux 1. Start Here 2. in fast motion 3. because every ending 4. is a new beginning 5. and life lives large More virtual flip art with flowers HERE.
Floyd writers and bloggers each fill a unique niche when they chronicle life in Floyd. In some cases, we may all be writing about the same story but seeing it through different lenses and zeroing in on different angles. Our town’s yearly roots music festival, FloydFest, in which 10,000 or more festival goers have been […]
This is the summer Scrabble game when Mara and I filled up on wild wineberries and blackberries before we played. We passed Catalpa, Mimosa, Rose of Sharon, Butterfly bush, and all the flowers in Jayn’s garden on our way to the Zephyr pond, where we pulled out the wicker couch with the pink floral pattern […]
Rarely do they give yes or no answers. The answers are more like sun or moon. Post Note: Sometimes I go to the oracle for big picture feedback. Other decisions, like whether or not to play Sunday Scribblings this weekend, are easier to make. Read more entries created from the prompt “decisions” HERE.
