Today has been a day of creating. I finished a necklace, bracelet, and pair of earrings all out of semi-precious gemstones featuring the color gray. It took some work to get the pieces just right but I am now satisfied with how they turned out. There’s labradorite, hematite, imperial jasper, and zebra jasper beads featured,…
Do you know of the children’s book, The Five Dog Night? It is a short story of two old people who are neighbors. An old woman in the story worries about another character, an old man, during a harsh winter. She keeps checking on his welfare and is confused by his response. Each time she…
Earlier this week I saw a post on writing micro-fiction. Since I tend to be verbose, this interested me. My eldest son, now 25 and in graduate school, took a microfiction course in his senior year of college. Their charge was to write a story in 500 words or less. He told me it was…
Do you have siblings? I have one sister, a younger sister, two years my junior. We’ve had some pretty serious discussions in the last few weeks due to our aging parents. We don’t always agree on things, but we usually hear each other out and do what we can to support one another emotionally and…
This morning I am wondering how many of our high school students are feeling. The school is instituting a new (changed) policy on cell phone usage. As I understand it, although there were guidelines before, cell phone usage in the classroom was left up to each individual teacher. Now, each department was charged with coming…
This morning was great! Once again I experienced creative juices flowing while I took my morning shower! Ha! I got you with the title, didn’t I? Well, although this post is not as provocative as one might have hoped, it certainly gave me something to write about. Many times in the past, when I was…
Every so often I like to participate in photography the challenges offered by other bloggers on WordPress. Today, I found an interesting one on Travels and Trifles through a blog I follow by P.A. Moed. One of the reasons I was particularly interested in this theme is that it opens itself to wide interpretation. I…
Today is Poetry Friday! My haiku poems are inspired by our Labrador Puppy, Molly. I have long been a fan of haiku poems and worked with children of all ages to write this type of poetry that reflects ones’ observations. My past haiku have all been based on the traditional subject of nature. But today,…
People I know take shopping road trips all the time. Part of the reason is that we live in a smaller area with less human density. This is a good thing. But, once in a while, it is fun to take a trip to spend a day shopping. This is especially so since no one…