October 2018
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Ignite 10/26/18
If it’s not one thing, it’s your mother . . . Continue reading
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This Little Light
My mother has been on my mind and heart a lot lately. Like me, her favorite season was Fall; a season she did not experience the last decades of her life when she and my father lived in Orlando, Florida.… Continue reading
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Operation Sharonimo — Part Two
“An undercover spy is about to impersonate you in all aspects of your life. Write Instructions.” Yesterday, I posted Part One of “Operation Sharonimo” — created from a writing prompt (above) assigned to me by my faithful Write Wing companion who… Continue reading
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Operation Sharonimo — Part One
“An undercover spy is about to impersonate you in all aspects of your life. Write Instructions.” A couple of weeks ago, as a way of kicking my writing ass, I asked my faithful writing companion and member of my writing… Continue reading
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Ignite 10/12/18
To write or not to write. To laugh or not to laugh. Laughing is always easier. Continue reading
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Aglow 10/11/18
A year before she died, my poet friend, Kathy Mitchell, won first place in a Virginia poetry competition for the poem featured in today’s post. She wrote it following a break-up with her then male companion. Let’s Be Trees Kathy… Continue reading
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A Blackbird’s Song
Did the song of a blackbird bring comfort to my dying friend? ***** “A blackbird’s song can’t stop disease, but it can offer comfort.” So believes Rachel Clarke, the author of Your Life In My Hands: A Junior Doctor’s Story… Continue reading
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Ignite 10/5/18
At the time of this writing, I am recovering from a colonoscopy and on the television downstairs, I can hear Republican members of the Judiciary Committee opining about the “fairness of this process” — the appointment of Judge Brett Kavanaugh… Continue reading
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In Cold Texas
On August 11, 2006 — a sweltering Friday night — 16-year-old Amber Wyatt reported that she had been raped in a storage shed off a dirt road in Arlington, Texas. Few believed her. Her hometown turned against her. The authorities… Continue reading
