I am writing this piece in response to a prompt on The Red Dress Club. This week we were asked to tell a story of a time when we were proud, without any trivialization or modesty. When I was 23 I had been to college once, earned my diploma as a Health Care Aid/Personal [...]
This is a piece written in response to a prompt from a writers website I love, The Red Dress Club. The challenged offered: “Give me a memory of the color red. Do not write the word ‘red’ but use words that engender the color red when you hear them. For example: a ruby, a tomato, [...]
When I think of spending time with friends and family I picture us enjoying a beverage of choice, whether it’s coffee, tea, lemonade or something else in my vision there’s generally a drink involved. For a long time my beverage of choice was wine. I had researched, taste tested and established my list of favorites [...]
We are Renovators!!Hubby has an eye for seeing what isn’t there and how to make it happen.I have many desires for a plush life surrounded by beautiful sights.Now I am going to share some of these sights with you. As the days get longer and the grass becomes greener I begin planning. It’s an annual event [...]
This post is written in response to a prompt on a website I love: RemembeRED. The prompt was a photo prompt of a garden hose. Laughter rises in the air as happy accented voices intermingle behind me. The rooms are cooler than our house at home, their walls bursting with too many things for me to take [...]
Here in Suburbia, Ontario, Canada we get proper Winters. When I say proper I mean from November – April it’s cold and generally snowy. Because of this when we notice the white stuff beginning to melt many of us here experience a strange feeling of pent up excitement. SPRING FEVER!! This feeling had hit the little people in [...]
This is a Fiction piece written in response to the prompt on a website I love, The Red Dress Club. Someone has stolen something from you (or your character). Something of tremendous value. What will you do to get it back? Or will you give up? The sun was hot on Cheryl’s forehead as she [...]
1 Corinthians 13:4-7 Love is patient, Love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always [...]
Legacies….. I’ve been all sappy since I wrote my submission to The Red Dress Club challenge last night and today I was pondering what my legacy to my daughters would be….Talk about total Mommy Sap here! Perhaps it’s the Irish in me (I claim a fair amount of Irish blood but my Grandmother was just 1/2 Irish, shh [...]
Spring has arrived!!! For this family it not only means warmer weather and brightened spirits it means that my cooking skills are challenged more regularly. Spring days here with a 5 and 7 year old are spent outside riding on bicycles, scooters, calling on friends repeatedly, jumping in any puddles they can find and general merriment [...]
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