life as we live it

Just For Fun Friday 04/10/2015

Just For Fun Friday 04/10/2015

Remember about this time last  year, when I told you a tulip bulb I planted over 10 years ago, that I assumed had just died away, had suddenly presented me with a single yellow blossom? Well, this year, it doubled its gift!  Kind of scary…. Phoenix Flower You were planted long ago with hopes for brilliant, yearly show. […]

Just For Fun Friday 02/20/2015

Just For Fun Friday 02/20/2015

I remember my grandmother. My mother’s mom was 4’11” tall, weighing probably around 250 lbs. with short-gray-blue hair and a great smile.  Cotton dresses,  embroidered aprons. I don’t know if she even knew how to drive a car. I do know she did crochet and embroidery, and I think she even tatted (it’s a hand-made […]

Staying Ahead

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 […]

Multiple Creativity

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

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 […]