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A Toddler’s Gotta Try (Wordless Wednesday)

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How To

I have discovered an easier way to bathe the cats. Hey, he inserted himself into the situation. 🤷🏼‍♀️

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Nostalgia

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AIn’t that Lovely (Wordless Wednesday)

Roses from Ishmael

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I ♥️ Covers (Wordless Wednesday)

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Produce & People

There is something beautiful about home grown produce, even when it is flawed. I believe the same is true about people.

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Short Story Month (The Art of the Short Story)

This piece for National Short Story Month was written with writers in mind, but readers are welcomed. We’re all one great big happy [most of us anyway] family here. After all writers are readers too. I did a live presentation some years back titled The Art of the Short Story. In preparing the notes for said exhibition I borrowed a large portion of material from a fellow author. She is a…

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Short Story Month (Door Number Four)

Door Number Four was possibly one of the funnest short stories I’ve ever written. It was originally written as a paid assignment but blew through the word count. They weren’t budging on the number of words they wanted and I could not imagine what more I could cut from the story and make it readable. We were at a stalemate so the deal was abolished. Oh well Que Será, Será.   I admit I may have…

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Short Story Month (August Wolf)

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Short Story Month

OK, I was today years old when I learned that May is International Short Story Month. Did the rest of you already know that? I should have known. After all it has been a real thing since 2010! I love short stories. Reading or writing — I love `em !! I feel like such a detached recluse for not knowing this? And now May is on its last leg; breathing her last dying breath. Maybe that’s a tad…

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The Seeds of Poetry

Our formative years shape our perspective and the culmination of our experiences spark the creative juices. Sometimes the juices they spark are as sweet as honey and nectar … or as tart as a key lime … as sour as a pickle … but sometimes they are bitter. So so bitter. May usually has a very positive influence on my mood despite being the anniversary month of the death of my older sister 48…

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Happy Mother’s Day

Happy Mother’s Day you mothers. 🥰

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NPM 2025 (I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud)

I was cleaning house (so to speak) and look what I found in the drafts folder. Dadgummit! You did again old woman! Oh well, I will not be deterred. Late— but not deterred. Thank goodness there’s not a late fee for such oversights. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden…

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On This Day ….

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NPM 2025 (The End of the Priest)

Well &#¥+ ! Between the garden and the grandkids I have completely neglected NPM. tsk tsk tsk I must somehow set aside a bit of quality time for National Poetry Month in days remaining. I just must! Maybe I’ll set an alarm for that too. I only have fifty-gillion to five-gazillion alarms already. So today I said to myself, “self you need to read one and post one.” Of course that won’t catch me…

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NPM 2025 (Full Moon and Little Frieda)

It was NPM 2014 when I first shared Ted’s poem about his daughter. In that post the husband and I had another enjoyable conversation about the tragedies that surrounded the man. You should give it a read. But now I present to you…. Full Moon and Little Frieda By Ted Hughes A cool small evening shrunk to a dog bark and the clank of a bucket –And you listening.A spider’s web, tense for the…

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NPM 2025 (Edge)

I can hardly believe that I first shared Edge by Sylvia Plath in April 2013. It seems like yesterday and a lifetime ago at the same time. I honestly enjoyed revisiting the discussion and dissection of Edge and poor Sylvia Plath. You should give it a read. Meanwhile I present to you… Edge by Sylvia Plath 1963 The woman is perfected.Her dead  Body wears the smile of accomplishment, The…