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Awareness

It was late August. The air was thick and heavy with humidity. There was no wind, no noise, it was as if the world had come to a complete stop. Elinor was where you could always find her, deep in the pasture out of sight of home or any neighbors. From the time she was […]

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Muses

Many are familiar with my first two muses as I have seen them depicted many times before. They can easily be imagined as sitting on my shoulders, one on each side whispering into my ears. One dressed in white and carrying a harp, pleading for me to do all these good things. The other in […]

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What if…?

As my first book nears it’s completion and is prepping to be sent to the publishers, I have returned to my next creative challenge. There are two projects that have been on the back burners which are both pushing to be brought to the front. As I ponder the merits of each project, individually, I […]

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Rearview Mirror

How often do we struggle on this journey we call “Life” Disappointment, shattered dreams, and other forms of strife. We see the path that others take and wonder “Why not me?” For through our eyes, the best that was is often hard to see. We focus not on the now but excelling in the race […]

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Something’s Underfoot

I first noticed it when I was 5 years old. While playing out in the front yard, barefoot as usual, I felt a tingling sensation when I stepped on a certain part of the yard. Stopping to investigate, I found a quarter, a huge sum of money for someone my age in the early 1960’s. […]

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Act Naturally

I remember sitting in a seminar in 1998 when the facilitator asked the class to describe a 2 year-old. She started frantically writing on the board as we called out words such as: Inquisitive Honest Loving Resourceful Daring Trusting Open Energetic You get the idea. Next she asked us to describe an adult. We were […]

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Focusing on Self

Why is it the very thing we wish for others we find difficult to grasp for ourselves? One of the phrases of comfort I find myself using when the loved one of a friend passes is “Peace be with you”. I mean that in the most sincere way, but that is not my wish just […]

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50th Anniversary

This is Day 7 of “7 Stories in 7 Days”. I asked my Facebook followers to give me a line from a favorite song to use as a writing prompt. I have not looked up the context of these lines so any similarity to the actual song is purely coincidental. Thank you for all that participated […]

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Let Me Photograph You

This is Day 6 of “7 Stories in 7 Days”. I asked my Facebook followers to give me a line from a favorite song to use as a writing prompt. I have not looked up the context of these lines so any similarity to the actual song is purely coincidental. Ginny and Craig had been high […]

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Good For The Soul

This is Day 5 of “7 Stories in 7 Days”. I asked my Facebook followers to give me a line from a favorite song to use as a writing prompt. I have not looked up the context of these lines so any similarity to the actual song is purely coincidental. Kenny had had a bad […]

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