“…for every woman who ever pulled her hair out trying to explain–for the 46th time–the importance of putting the toilet seat down, for Christ’s sake, or that burping the national anthem after every meal is not a constitutional right…
Read the full story »What We See In The Mirror and How We Feel About It
The work that we do and that we wish we did
Our emotional, spiritual, and intellectual selves
Mates, children, parents, siblings, friends
What we think about what’s happening outside our door
As promised, this is what I wrote in response to last Wednesday’s musical prompt. And you? What did you write?
I got the Christine Kane CD at BlogHer’07, which happened not long after Dennis moved out. …
If you’re the praying sort, or the meditating sort, or just the sort who will think good thoughts for a little dog who means the world to me–please do.
If you can remember–I sorta do–I used to love taking photos. Why did I stop? For one, my camera is sooo ollllld and infirm that it’s no longer fun. And I guess my creative wherewithal …
So–I promised a prompt or two. Instead, I’m just going to give you one, but it’s a doozy. It’s a song, the first track on Christine Kane’s CD of the same name. Listen to it. …
All the world isn’t a stage; it’s a marketplace. All the people aren’t merely players; they are, alternately, sellers and buyers.
I don’t apologize to Shakespeare for that because I am simply updating him. …
When I first started blogging back in The Day–’04 that would have been–no one in my circle of friends and family knew what a blog was. Or cared, for that matter. I was kind of …
Do you ever do timed free-writing? Do you ever just set a timer for ten or fifteen or thirty minutes and write about anything and everything till the bell rings? You’re not writing about …
There was a time when I bought books about writing with a hunger and a purpose. I just knew that one of them, or maybe two or three, held the secrets to the universe of …
Do you like pretty things? Do you like pretty, sparkly things? Do you like pretty, sparkly things that dangle gracefully from your earlobes? Do you like these?
Would you like to see them dangling gracefully from …
That is the purpose of description, you know, to suck your reader into your mind’s eye, and spew out for their benefit exactly what you’re seeing. Some people are really good at it. …
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