There is a sweet spot, a perfect place I like to be with my writing. There is also the wet cement place. The place of nothing but frustration and obligation. Where am I right now? Smack in the middle of the two. My paradise as a writer is new creation. Writing the outline. Talking…
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Sunday Share: That is Some Crazy Caterpillar!
This Sunday Share is from a blog I adore. The poem is just amazing as well. I’ll share it here, but you gotta go check out the whole blog! It is from a blog called: Life Lessons If I Follow the Wandering Poet jdbphoto Who cares if I swim naked in my pool? All other…
Excerpts from June, 1938 Continued
Please get your votes for favorite vintage pick in by the end of the day today. I’m posting results tomorrow! And as a thank you, I’ll post some photos from the era that you haven’t seen yet. 😉 Here is the link for the voting post: Vote on your favorite vintage photo June was…
The Set Up: Vote for your favorite vintage photo
Yay! Woot Woot! This is my 300th blog post. What a journey this has been. And I’m still in love with it all. I would like all of you to help me with a 300th post celebration. I need your involvement! Tomorrow’s post will show all of the vintage images I have posted so far…
What I learned from the April A to Z Challenge
If I don’t write it out, I wont know it. That’s not something I learned from this challenge. That’s something I learned either from writing or from my life. After anything worthy I like to write a reflection because if I learned something from an activity, I might not have really learned it unless I…
Sunday Share: How do you want your A to Z Challenge?
What kind of response to the April A to Z Challenge would you like to read? What about an A-Z challenge about Haiku? Or riddles? or Science Fiction? What a blog that is doing all three? I LOVE it! It is so well done and makes my inner – and let’s face it outer geek…
Writing Wednesday Do I dare?
I have dared to quit my job. I have dared to start a career as a writer. I have dared to write a novel. I have dared to post on my blog every day for a year. I have dared to, out loud, call myself a writer. Nothing is as scary thus far as beginning…
Cruisers, Cartography, and Caring for Him
Today I am realizing that maybe – hopefully! – there are a lot of new people visiting my blog. Thank you. A quick explanation to what you will be reading: (You can also check it out by clicking “What This Is.”) My husband and I live with his grandmother who just turned 99 and we…
Bonfire, Birthday, Bowling
It’s time to introduce March, 1938. My grandmother writes: Drum Corps Social and a goody time but no ice cream after. What does come after is kissing John and forgetting about Ben. Living in a dream and standing room only in church where the Father uses a mic for the first time. Small change saved…
Oh, I’m Doing It!
I am taking today’s post to introduce a challenge I will be beginning tomorrow. Yup. You guessed it. The April A-Z Challenge. I found out about this challenge last year on, oh, about April 30th. I was bummed! I would have participated! I would have challenged myself! I would have been a part of a…
Sunday Share: How Spring Should Be!
I beat back some of my Seasonal Affective Disorder by viewing gardening blogs all year around but especially in times like these. Spring should have begun, and almost did!, several weeks ago but our snow finally got here. So, I was browsing garden blogs and found this very magical page. yes! I think it’s magical!…
January, 1938
A new year, to bed at noon, a ride in the Cord, a pie ate in the kitchen, a diary read by prying eyes? Jeb here to see Ernie, listening to the radio with Zosh, lots to do at work, Firefly and a Donkey Serenade to remember, lunch at the expense of the company and…
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