February 22, 2025
The miners scanned for the various ores of course, but no one stopped to consider what else might live among the craters.
February 20, 2025
You struggled to step into your father’s giant shoes. You gave your heart to your art, but the box office remained strangely silent.
February 19, 2025
Bait & Swiss, at a quick glance, comes from the Cheese Shop Mysteries cozy mystery series by Korina Moss. The stories center on the first-person narrator, Willa, the owner of a cheese shop in a small town on the West Coast. The story follows the mystery of poisoned chocolates and murder, which Willa must solve for the sake of herself and her friends (and former friends).
February 18, 2025
I smile in greeting and stay out of the way. I know I’m a curiosity, probably the first stranger they’ve seen apart from backpackers who motor through without stopping.
February 17, 2025
“Daughter,” Yannis said sternly, “it is not fitting you come here. Please send another nephew if you have one.” The hint of a smile played around her lips… Apart from the rustle of bougainvillaea leaves and the repetitive song of a mistle thrush, a thick silence descended.
Yannis said, “However, you must convey my order for tools. Hammer, crowbar, and bolster. You know what a bolster is?”
February 15, 2025
Beware! Here there be dragons... Fire-breathing, jewel-hoarding, winged dragons resting atop mountains of gold and silver and glamour. Dare ye enter? Dare ye read Dragon Scales and Other Tails?
February 14, 2025
I do not know you
don't know the smile
the beating red heart
behind the boutonniere
on your blue lapel
February 13, 2025
You build up the hype – you’ve finally got a date with your crush! And it’s on Valentine’s evening! Was it worth the hype?
February 12, 2025
So he allowed himself to imagine the Maker’s delight in working out the orogeny – not just here in the Meteora but in every part of the world – arranging pleats, wrinkles and horizontal bands. The Maker placed a cirque here and a tarn there, ornamenting the work with delicate silver streams, and taking time to decide where to place the treeline.
February 11, 2025
As the storm comes nearer, I count ten seconds after the lightning before the thunder hits. We watch, entranced, reveling in the feel of nature’s power.
February 4, 2025
Here on this land purchased from Sheryll’s family, we have no one to compete with but ourselves. It’s our chance to be who we are, rather than who others think we ought to be.
January 24, 2025
This is not my first time at the shut-in rodeo. I saw my agoraphobicmother struggle, suffer during my early 1970s adolescence, preparingme well for the day […]