Life is a road. It’s straight sometimes, but then it curves. It might straighten out again or it might curve some more. But eventually a left will turn into a…

Hello Tuesday Friends! Today’s Top Ten Tuesday post (brought to you by The Broke and The Bookish) is all about the TBR list. Anyone who has been here knows that…

One day I saw her. She rode up on her bicycle, long blond hair floating behind her in the wind. She stepped off and took a bunch of yellow and…

Thanks for tuning in here for another Literary Battle. I know there’s really nothing more common, more mundane, more ho-hum than pitting one book against another. We readers are always…

Do you like to… Would your book club like to… Well, if you answered ‘yes’, then keep reading. (If you answered ‘no’, keep reading anyway. There’s a cute puppy at…

The letterbox had always been there. In the middle of the field. It seemed awfully strange, it being here without a house or a driveway. But maybe not stranger than…

Today I want to share one of my own poems that I think is pretty cool. Inspired by Death Cab for Cutie’s Coney Island and my own trip to Coney…

It’s almost Halloween! And it’s TOP TEN TUESDAY via The Broke and the Bookish. Sorry, I didn’t have much time for a fancy post. I’m fresh off a weekend trip…

Thanks for stepping into the ring with me once again for another literary battle. Today’s fighters are a last minute addition to the card. I had a different topic planned,…

Let’s celebrate….I finally figured out which day it is, and my Top Ten Tuesday post (via The Broke and the Bookish) matches the topic for this week! I can read…

It’s been fourteen weeks and five days. That’s 2,472 hours since she last put on her running shoes. 103 days of frustration. After all this rest, her hamstring should have…

It’s a hectic week, so Literary Battles will return next week. Sorry 🙁  But in the meantime, enjoy this #TBT post from the past.  Early in my writing career, an…

The birthday boy turned 2. He went to the park, he was blessed at church, he received presents, he ate cake, and he played. The shelter begrudgingly let me adopt…

Welcome to Literary Battles Round 2. Here you can learn more about what this new series is all about. Black and white. Cold and hot. Clinton and Trump. These are…

(Someday I will figure out how to read a calendar. Or maybe just how to read at all. Once again, I wrote this post last week. I’m reposting this week.…

She strutted down Main Street like a Parisian model. Her designer dress wasn’t purple; it was aubergine. Her shoes weren’t high heels; they were Manolo Blahniks. Jaws dropped as she…

Welcome to Round 1 of Literary Battles. Reading and writing are both constant battles for me. It’s not that I don’t enjoy them, but there’s always something to ruin the…

(Haha…I don’t read good. Lol. I thought this topic was for 9/20, but it’s for 9/27. I’ll repost then. Ooops.) No fanfare today. Just the facts. It’s Tuesday. And that…

Her father loved his plants. He mostly grew roses, but when retirement forced him out of his home–the one with the yard for all his rose bushes–he turned to geraniums.…