A Quiet Corner of a Busy World
This is something I have wondered about for a while and I would love responses from you all! When you think of the months of the year (whether to try to remember when something happened, calculate how much time before a certain event, think about a date on the calendar, etc.), what do you see? [...]
Yesterday, I was really looking forward to a day free of obligations so I could write and do some gardening. I decided to do my weekly house cleaning quickly so it would be out of the way and I could better focus on writing. Then if the clouds broke, I would go into the garden [...]
The pot on the stove was simmering and the hearty smell of lamb and potatoes wafted through the house. The bathrooms were clean. Books, papers, and craft projects had been corralled into the art room. At the risk of being too cliché, I almost felt like dancing with the broom while sweeping the front porch. [...]
Some of you might have seen the news on social media, but in case you missed it, The Rabbit Room published one of my articles this week! You can read it here. I regularly enjoy Rabbit Room content so was honored that my work was accepted. And...if you remember a few weeks ago I said [...]
I participated in November Poem-A-Day for the first time in 2022. I only participated about half of the days, but a few poems turned out nicely! One of the prompts from the Poetry Pub called two things to mind: a personal experience and a beautiful poem by Christina Rossetti. I chose to "steal like an [...]
An exciting thing happened yesterday. One of my poems was published to an online publication called Calla Press! You can read it here. This is the first time my work has been published beyond my personal blog and small, private publications. And...Calla Press is including another one of my poems in their annual print journal [...]
A few weeks ago, we got a dusting of snow that was gone well before noon. I was hoping it would be just the first hint of snow to come, but now I'm wondering if that might have been our one sight of snow this year. When I took down my Christmas decorations, I pulled [...]
Pulling up to the window, Bri stuffed a wad of $1s, several inches thick, into an envelope. She yawned as she signed her deposit slip on the steering wheel. “Good afternoon, Bri-Anne. How are you today, honey?” The voice crinkled through the speaker as the teller drawer shot open. Bri smiled at the lady whose [...]
Two of the best words ever are "Let's eat." Of course, any words that have to do with eating are pleasurable, but compared with other phrases also involving food and meal time, "Let's eat" is the best in my opinion. Why? "Let's eat" implies you are eating with someone else, that there is a shared [...]
It's been two years since I was introduced to the Rabbit Room, but I placed an order for the first time a few weeks ago. I started to get excited when I received texts of "diligent minions" and "items of great and terrible import" being "dispatched from a clandestine lair." I was so drawn in [...]
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