Daily Prompt: Burning Down the House ~*~ Todays’ prompt asks what five things we would save if our house was burning down, assuming that people and animals are safe. So, what five things would I save if my house was burning down? I pray this is something I never experience. Still, for the purposes of … More The Burning Question
Daily Prompt: Play Lexicographer ~*~ My dream come true. A word to call my own. Playing with the alphabet. I’m in the danger zone. A brainstorm of confusion Puzzling my thought. A word game I alone can play Culled from all that I’ve been taught. Got it! “Lexinaffle: ~ verb ~ the inability to dream up a new … More The Writer’s Danger Zone
Daily Prompt: Embrace the Ick ~*~ Interviewer: “Tell me, Ms. Doright, when do you first recall embracing the much maligned vegetable many of our readers would agree is icky? My notes don’t actually tell me what the vegetable is, perhaps you could elaborate?” Ms. Doright: “All in good time … Honestly, I just made up my mind it was … More The Much Maligned Vegetable
Daily Prompt: Free Association Home ~ Sanctuary Soil ~ Harm Rain ~ Weep ~*~ Harm not my sanctuary, lest I weep, For here is where my heart doth rest, My weary body sleep. Tis here I close my tired eyes, Replenish here my soul And find within my stirring depths The truth that makes me whole. … More Harm Not My Sanctuary, Lest I Weep
Daily Prompt: Enough is Enough ~*~ ~*~ Insatiable. You are. Not to be satisfied at any time, by any means, because the soul lost knows not when enough is enough. Searching for what never can be for you know not that for which you seek. And I, your convenient and invisible slave, drown in your endless need at any expense, … More Insatiable
Weekly Writing Challenge: Ice, Water, Steam (Stream of consciousness philosophizing going on here. Read at your own risk. 😉 ) Who I am is not who I was. And yet, without who I was I would not be who I am. Ice is not without its essence ~ water. Steam is not without its essence ~ water. Perhaps, … More Water Philosophy in Brief
Weekly Writing Challenge: Hindsight is 20/20 To me the word “hindsight” smacks of regret, and worry, and wasted energy, but for this exercise I’ll lay aside my misgivings and share a brief examination of some things I wish I’d done, in hindsight, in 2014. This year has been a time of tremendous growth and recovery on so … More In Hindsight …
Weekly Writing Challenge: Poetry The Writer’s Nightmare No inspiration, There is none, I sit here, void, and Twiddle thumbs. It’s writer’s block that Bogs me down. The channel closed; My smile a frown. I patiently await a sign, A notion that Might just be mine, That from the Ether Will descend And soon to Earth … More The Writer’s Nightmare
Lambs in Spring Little white balls of beautiful fluff, Bouncing and prancing and that kind of stuff. Baaing and whimpering here and there Sometimes they’ll do nothing but stop and stare. Crying for mother on a lovely spring day, Mother comes running; decides to stay. Bounding and twisting round and round, Looking for something no … More Resurrection
Daily Prompt: Papa Loves Mambo Music has always been a part of our family fabric. From the ancestors who played in the brass bands of northern Michigan in the 1800s to my grandfather who played a multitude of instruments in his living room, to my grandmother who warbled like a bird while painting portraits of … More The Fabric of Music
Shedding Light on the Family Tree 