Staying Ahead
I’ve told you about Charlie’s story haunting me, and I’ve been working on that. One of the pivotal events in the tale is something that happens on the school ground, and I got the idea from an incident on our high school campus (yeah, YEARS ago). Of course, Charlie’s only about 10, so I had […]
Just For Fun Friday 02/13/2015
Today I’m wondering what YOU do for fun. Here’s the title poem from my chapbook printed in 2006. Enjoy! Having Fun Having fun is more than just play. Having fun is enjoying the day watching the squirrels run up the tree; Reading a book, a glass of iced tea on the desk by your side; […]
Multiple Creativity
I don’t know if that’s someone else’s phrase, or if I just coined it, so let’s just take it from here, shall we? In my ever growing circle of writing friends, there is a common thread. All of us have more than one creative pastime. There’s writing, of course. But many of my friends are […]
Just For Fun Friday 02/06/2015
You think life today is weird? I recently ran across a tale of Einstein’s brain so bizarre, you’d swear that Mary Shelley was at it again. The story is rife with controversy. One version says when Einstein died in 1955, his brain was stolen. Einstein himself had left specific instructions to be cremated and for […]
Just For Fun Friday 01/30/2015
Ahh….it’s the end of January, and The Tax Man Cometh….. I opened my mailbox on December 31 once and discovered the tax forms in it. It must have been a bad year for the government – I’d never gotten them before the first of the year before! While scrolling through Schott’s Original Miscellany, I […]
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