For sixty-three years, she’s taken her afternoon tea the same way. The simple china with the 14K gold trim. Always with a saucer. A full cup of her rooibos tea.…
-
Welcome to the 2018 Author Toolbox Blog Hop! It’s a monthly blog hop organized by the lovely Raimey Gallant aimed at helping authors discover all sorts of tools to help…
-
Happy Tuesday, reader friends! So excited for this first day of TTT hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. Let’s all give Jana a high-five for taking over! via GIPHY This…
-
There is a path near his house. On Thursday afternoons, when his parents are gone and the maids are busy with errands in town, he can sneak out and head…
-
Untitled, And Still Unoriginal This is just to tell you that I will not Write to you anymore. How could I? For two hours I wrote down, in my voice,…
-
Happy 2018!! (I’m a week late, but I’m here!) I love Top Ten Tuesday and I’m so excited to get back at it and to see it’s moving next week…
-
He always came to her in her dreams. She could never see his face, but in the strength of his arms, her fears evaporated into the night air. Each time…
-
So, I know I said I was on a break (like Ross and Rachel lol), but this is a Top Ten Tuesday (hosted by The Broke and the Bookish) topic…
-
I’m not sure what Mr. Darcy asked for when he met Santa the other day, but it probably wasn’t “please let me have more time to sit around and do…
-
Happy Tuesday! Who has a case of the winter blues now that Prince Harry is taken? Lol. via GIPHY Well, there’s nothing that heals the imaginary boyfriend break-up blues better…
-
They think I can’t hear them, but I can. I hear all of their teary laments and sorry sighs. They think I’m a prisoner here. They think I’d rather be…
-
Happy Tuesday! ‘Tis the season to be thankful (although, shouldn’t we really always be thankful?), so in that spirit…I’m very thankful for this week of no work, for my friends…
-
I am thankful for the road that is my life. Though it is obscured sometimes, as if by a blanket of leaves, I know it is always there, waiting to…
-
William Wordsworth has always been my favorite poet. And of his poems, the Lucy series is my favorite. This one in particular has always stuck with me: When my dad…
-
Happy Tuesday! I’m starting to feel thankful already…thankful that at this time next week, I’ll be on vacation! I’m also thankful for these Top Ten Tuesdays, hosted by The Broke…
-
“I thought we were supposed to be flying south,” he said from behind. “Yeah,” the one in the middle chimed in. “South. They all said south.” “We’re not going south.…
-
I think Mother Nature must have lost her box of crayons. She has shaded every bit of the outdoors with a lead pencil, and her heavy breath is sending cobwebs…
-
BlogTop Ten Tuesday
These Characters Are Ready to Lead (A Top Ten Tuesday Post)
by Leslie November 7, 2017Welcome November! And welcome Fall (finally! here in California)! And welcome Tuesday! This means another week of Top Ten Tuesday, hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic…
-
He knew his final days were approaching. The cancer had spread like wildfire in his body. But that isn’t what pained him most. What haunted him in early morning hours…
-
BlogTop Ten Tuesday
A Spooktacular Acrostic Book List (A Top Ten Tuesday Post)
by Leslie October 31, 2017Hello ghouls and ghosts! Happy Halloween! via GIPHY And welcome to this spooktacular week of Top Ten Tuesday, hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week is a…