Star light
We bought a new star this year, a Moravian star with punched design. As it hangs from the porch, it …
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Writing Desk
Now I have no more excuses as I have the proper tool: I have a writing desk. Actually, it’s the …
Behind Closed Doors
Prompt: Behind Closed Doors Immediately I think of privacy – in my own room. Also, the oft spoken phrase of …
Getting Here
One of the writing “devices” Carol has encouraged us to use is an acrostic using a phrase or name or …
Dancing and singing
The Hallmark store in town has these wonderful quote cards that you can buy and frame in a quote card …
July 22, 2014
It’s important to preface the following story as I wrote it by hand in my journal and that is a …
Birthday Wishes
Butterfly In my Radar. A viceroy floats over my head. I Try to chase it to snap a photo of …
Ordinary and Discovery
Carol often uses the “Before and After” exercise to develop a prompt – asking the participants at the writing workshop …
What I Learned From my Mother
I’ve been thinking about my mother a lot lately, especially in the last six months—since I became a grandmother. My …
Fall Acrostic: October
O-October is packed with things to see and do C-Cider and doughnuts, fairs and football T-Trees standing majestic in their …
More on Of Time and the River and October
Today is the birthday of Thomas Wolfe, born in 1900 on this date. And it’s the birthday of a dear friend, …
Of time, space, traveling and October days
Time and space. This little world of time and space. Beyond this world of time and space. I’ve been rereading …
Calendar Girl
When I was a child, of the 365 days in a year, only two had meaning for me: my birthday …
YOLO
Originally posted on Farther Along:
I first heard the term YOLO – acronym for You Only Live Once – last fall…
Hidden Treasure
In cleaning out my almost 97-year-old mother-in-law’s apartment at the retirement home, we rediscovered lots of treasures from the past, …
River Teeth
How funny to think a river could have teeth. What would river teeth look like? Whitecaps like we saw today …
Six degrees…
Often Carol (Henderson) is asked to facilitate a writing event based on our book Farther Along and as many of our …
An Invocation – 2
Loving Father, Nurturing Mother, I could pray for world peace – that all the wars across the globe among nations …
5, 15 and now 23
I have a secret. It involves numbers. It mostly involves the number 5. In a couple of days I’ll be …
Magic lily sightings
Because it rained so hard yesterday, I brought some magic lilies inside this morning, wanting to enjoy them before the rain …
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