I have been an imaginative person my whole life long. I remember filling hours each day in some sort of world existing only in my mind. I loved the blank canvas experience of painting any picture I wanted. I could go anywhere and be anything. Recently, I have written an essay I am very proud … More The Power of Imagination
There is no backing out now. The campsite beside a mountain lake in the Mt. Hood National Forest is reserved, and the other families we are camping with have taken time off work. My fingers scroll to the weather app on my phone to check the extended forecast. I need to know what … More Keeping Kids Warm While Camping
I subscribe to The Art of Simple by Tsh Oxenreider, and today I received an email containing her 5 Quick Things. She lists five things she either recently created, is applauding, or is currently consuming. I decided I would riff off of her idea. Here are my 5 Quick Things but I decided I would … More 5 Quick Things–A Riff
Here it is, the longest day of the year. Her blue eyes match the sky. Her chubby cheeks, full of grass, leaves and curiosity as we sit together on the lawn admiring a beautiful beginning to summer. Her delightful baby voice chattering out her favorite phrase, “Happy, Happy, Happy.” I am overcome with love for … More Waking Mama Bear
Two boys. One truck. Two Self-serving world views. The toy is snatched by the impulsive hands of one while a severe and deserved injustice is felt by the other. The one who is now lacking the truck bellows out NOOOO, (as if the longer the note is sounded the more deeply it will be felt … More The Crossroads of Fury and Restraint
This week’s writing prompt is Empty. Sometimes I have absolutely noting left to give. I take care of my children, my husband, my home and myself. I know that is the complaint from every single mother out there…so much to do, so little resources to do a good job. At times I feel frantic when … More Five Minute Friday : Empty
If I were the captain of a spaceship whose mission was to gather information about black holes, I would most certainly die. Unlike more skilled space rangers (James T. Kirk comes to mind), who bravely take their ship to the brink of a black hole then muscle their way out of its clutches before it … More Social Media Black Hole
I have taken a break from the Five Minute Friday writing prompts but feel the need to get back to it, if for no other reason than to have one faithful day each week to actually get my writing done. I am trying to start and maintain a regular writing practice and one of the … More Five Minute Friday: Enough
She once had a little speed boat that she traded in for an ocean liner. Some days she really missed how that little boat could skip along like a rock on a still pond, but she fell in love with the people she met onboard that great big ship. She figured that regardless of the … More Speed Boat:Ocean Liner
This week’s Five Minute Friday word is Slow. The premise of Five Minute Fridays is to write for five minutes on the weekly word prompt. It is an opportunity to shake the dust off of your creative mind to stretch your writing skills in different way. Here is my five minute writing piece based on the … More Five Minute Friday: Slow
I catch it. I lure it in and catch it. From thin air I make magic. I feed it, I tend it, I press into it till my muscles are tired and weary from the effort to mold and shape it. Then I wait. Rest Step back and wait for it To rise up and … More Wild Catch
This week’s Five Minute Friday word is Safe. The premise of Five Minute Fridays is to write for five minutes on the weekly word prompt. It is an opportunity to shake the dust off of your creative mind to stretch your writing skills in different way. Here is my five minute writing piece based on the … More Five Minute Friday: Safe
