The chairs were set out. Exactly 100 rows. 20 of the same chairs on either side, each an exact copy of the one next to it. Soon the speaker’s voice…
Book covers are the best! Especially when they are for your very own debut novel! I’ve chosen a cover for CHASING EVELINE, and I want you to join in on…
Every Tuesday afternoon. Right after school she dashed home and crammed a week’s worth of practice into thirty minutes. She liked the piano. She really wanted to learn it, but…
They said it would be easy. No web site experience needed. Just the click of a button. I’m here to tell you this: they are wrong. Changing over to a…
The tiny boat slowly passed into the light of the setting sun. Who was in it? Where was he or she going? I wondered if it was a fisherman or…
I moved to California at the beginning of fourth grade, and it didn’t take me long to find a cute, blond-haired boy to fall in love with. He was the…
Okay, so it’s not technically a poem, but it is poetic… Love Love is the younger sister of Patience, Courage, and Beauty. She depends on her older sisters for survival;…
Welcome Tuesday! Or as I call it here, Monday Two. Or Pre-Wednesday. Whatever you call it, it’s time for Top Ten Tuesday from the wonderful The Broke and the Bookish.…
The gust of wind kicked up and dropped the brittle brown leaf on the wooden table directly in front of me. Its edges curled up as if to smile. It…
Thanksgiving! It means no work for a week! It means eating a lot! And It also means being thankful, which is the theme of this week’s TOP TEN TUESDAY brought…
In honor of Thanksgiving and the revival of Gilmore Girls, I reminisce about my sadness at the end of the series and my thankfulness for the upcoming four-part event that…
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…
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…
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…
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…
(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…