While I was away, I watched the Stanley Cup, and even though I was cheering for the Vancouver Canucks, the better team, Boston Bruins, won. The players on both sides…
Mightier Than The Sword
Curve Balls in Life
These past few weeks have been taxing. Another curve ball came, when my 95 yr. old mother was hospitalized after a fall. While enroute to see her, I read the…
A Writer’s Passion
As I see my Star Magnolia flowers come and go, I’m reminded again of the passage of time. So, in thinking of all the writing I still want to do,…
Writing a Guest Blog
I find the whole world of blogging fascinating. As a newbie, I’ve now met people from all parts of the world showing their colors through what they write. As I’ve…
The Winter of Her Life
This isn’t the kind of photo you expect at this time of year, but I just returned from visiting my 95 yr. old mother in her personal care home and…
The Promise of Rainbows
Yesterday, I spotted this double rainbow. It just came out of nowhere. There’s something about that old story, the one about the pot of gold at the end of a…
Writing is ReWriting (and what a pencil can tell us)
Writing is rewriting. It’s not only about finding the errors, it’s also about finding better words and phrasing to express what you want to say and make your story sing.…
Writing as an escape
Talk to any writer and they’ll invariably say, they have to write. I was told many years ago by an astrologist, that if I didn’t get a computer, I’d go…
Ukrainian Easter
It`s a day of reflection for me, as our family is under the weather and not attending church this year. We`ll have Easter dinner and admire the pysanky (Ukrainian Easter…
Nature’s Lessons
I continue to be amazed every spring when new growth appears in the garden. All that was dormant awakens and begins again, stronger and larger in many cases. It’s that…