I sit here with a high-fevered little girl and to-do list stuffed to the gills…so I am re-running a PROMPTuesday from many moons ago. I hope you find it enjoyous. Today’s PROMPTuesday is lifted from Naomi Epel’s The Observation Deck, and is: Show, don’t tell! — a cardinal rule of writing —…Continue Reading
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Null and Void
It’s IndieInk Writing Challenge time again. This one comes from Zoey Jane, who issued a doozy of a prompt, which was: You know that an asteroid – The asteroid – is coming for Earth. It’s been verified by all of the scientists and reported, first on Twitter, and then on reputable news networks (none of…Continue Reading
PROMPTuesday #142: To Forgive is Divine
I tell myself you bleed like I do. I say that a lot. Over and over like a totem; a psalm to ground me. Same color blood. Same color blood. Same color blood. You hurt. You defend. You love. You need. You live in the same world. Same world. Same color blood. Same. Same. Same.…Continue Reading
First Time A Blessing, Second Time A Miracle
The below is born from an IndieInk Writing Challenge issued to me by my challenger, Becky. Every week, as part of IndieInk’s “game,” participants will be randomly challenged by their peers with a writing prompt. Becky’s prompt for me this week was: “They say there’s a first time for everything. Write about something that offers…Continue Reading
How To Write. Again.
{{Last re-repost. My brain will be back from the mountains tomorrow. And I think about the below all the time.}} How to write. I ask myself this question almost every day. Because I overthink, and because I second guess, and because I doubt, and because I can be better, but I don’t know how.…Continue Reading
My Town: Ocean Beach
I wrote this in honor of my most favorite beach town in San Diego. I miss it.
The Five Stages of Blogging, Three Years Later
{{Yes. Another re-post. My brain is glued shut from too many biscuits and gravy. I originally wrote the below more than three years ago. And it’s still true. God help us all.}} Please note that the below represents my perspective and is not reflective of any well-adjusted, unmedicated bloggers out there. I…Continue Reading
Rewind, One More Time
{{Re-posting. Still in the mountains amidst crazy snow flurries and loving it hardcore.}} I went to college in a smallish midwestern city with a gorgeous lakefront, gritty urban streets, and crazy lunatics roaming the alleys (campus was two blocks from the Rescue Mission, a psychiatric hospital, and the Pabst Mansion open to the drunk…Continue Reading
Five Classes I Wish They’d Taught In School
{{Way back when and long ago, my friend MommyPie asked me to write about the below. I thought I’d re-post it now because I’m in the mountains waiting for it to snow, eating too many Doritos, and realizing I’m quite unable to formulate a brand-new post. So…}} …here are the five classes I wish…Continue Reading
PROMPTuesday #141: Electric Life
I’m sure you’re all familiar with The Secret, right? Manifest your destiny? Make your dreams real? Wish for a cup of coffee and it appears? That kind of thing. And you’re probably all over the Vision Boards, too. You know, cut out magazine pictures of how you want your life to look, paste them on…Continue Reading
The Scary Essay
Another previously posted piece on how my security alarm failed one night. Over at @TheSmartly So Cal.
Overdue, Again
Dearest The Rock: I know you’ll read this, so I thought I’d put it here. As you know, I’ll be gone this evening, and if I don’t write these things down when the mood hits me, I may never get to it. And things need to be said. But first of all: you’re…Continue Reading
