Mirrors can be deceiving. Remember the carnival fun houses with mirrors that made you look really tall and skinny…or short and wide. There were the some that created a wiggly reflection that always reminded me of fried bacon. (Great, now I want bacon.) Others affected only your torso, so you looked like you had really short…
I overcame a huge roadblock to my writing this year. I finally started writing dirty. It’s not what you may be thinking. You see, I’m a perfectionist who tends to edit as I write. In fact, I corrected that last sentence three times before I was happy with it. As I type, I go back…
Five years ago, several of my friends and I began to gather each January for the purposes of working on various writing projects. Some of the women are published authors (our mentors) and others – like me – are novices. We work on blogs, articles, books…and a myriad of other writing projects. We have had…
Why are you offered a “penny for your thoughts” but when you have something to say, it’s known as “putting in your two cents”? I don’t remember where I first heard this comparison statement, but it has stuck with me for years. The statement finishes with “what happened to the other penny?” Contrasting the two…
We had a visitor last night. Actually, we had three or four. And we finally caught sight of them. Our writer’s group had rented a house in a resort area/ subdivision of nearly identical rental houses. The management group picked up the trash regularly and the can was located on the front porch. There is…
“I’m here. I’m here. I’m here.” The excitement could barely be contained in her small voice. This impish grandchild could hardly run fast enough to get into the house. Jumping up and down in our kitchen, she just kept repeating her mantra “I’m here” over and over again…as if we hadn’t noticed. Her parents were…
