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  • On Writing…

    If you’re doing your best writing, you’re always on the cusp of embarrassing yourself.” –Arthur Miller I’ve been tasked to write my Author’s Mission Statement. It’s in the brainstorming and drafting stages at this point. I’ve stolen phrases from other writers I know. I’ve stuck fancy words in it and wrangled them around to make… Read more

  • My School Family and Friends

     It must be the year thirty-eight, thirty-nine, or it could be forty of my teaching career.. I felt good when I walked onto campus this year until I found out my friend, the head cook, wouldn’t, couldn’t be back to work. She has terminal cancer. She seemed fine at the pool this summer. She did… Read more

  • A Journey With Frank Sinatra

    The pile of vinyl records dropped one Frank Sinatra album onto the turntable. He crooned about Strangers in the Night, and I smiled in my sleep. The needle skipped and Snoopy and the Red Barron were fighting it out in the sky. The needle jumped to Bolero, it pranced around in my head, and a… Read more

  • How to hide a genius

    Shunning is done with silent delight. Read more

  • Every storm runs out of rain

    It wasn’t the right plant for the right place like she’d hoped. Read more

  • The Simple Pleasure of Coffee 

    It was a monumental act of kindness. Read more

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  • Novel Time

    Writing a novel is the culmination of what I’ve been preaching most of my whole life.

  • Picturetrove

    Suzanne giggled and stomped her feet at the secret she held, the power.

  • Aurora

    There is magic in my light.

  • 6th Grade Goldilocks

    Think of a children’s story you know…” ps..my secretary is responsible for any and all mistakes. :)

  • Late

    It was a job and Buster needed to stop looking at it like that right then and there or he wouldn’t have one.