Who Scored The First Goal? (a creation story)
Weekly Writing Challenge: This week, we ask you to invent (or reinvent) a creation myth. In the beginning, long before the serpent tempted Adam and Eve, before Prometheus gave fire […]
Worlds Colliding
On any given day, there are several “me’s” crashing into each other, trying to get through each 24-hour period. There’s primarily Mommy-me, Wifey-me, WorkerBee-me, and Always-available-when-teachers-call-me. There’s also Jamaican-me and […]
The Lost Art of Home Economics
I always find it a curious thing when anyone tells me that they don’t know how to cook. “So how do you eat?” I’ll ask. “I eat out a lot,” […]
Now That I’m In My 40’s, I Totally Get It
This is my week of lists, prompted by Monday’s Weekly Writing Challenge: Lists. Now that I’m in my 40’s, there are issues I used to agonize over in my 20’s […]
Around the Block…day 2
Continuing with this week’s theme of “blogging your block”, I wanted to share this sculpture entitled “Dance Rhythms” that I stumbled across in the town center last year. This 7-foot […]
Around the Block…day 1
This week my theme will be “Blog Your Block”, inspired by the Monday Weekly Writing Challenge. It’s Monday morning and for once, we’re not rushing through the door to catch […]
The Setting’s The Thing
This story is my response to this week’s Weekly Writing Challenge. For my fellow American bloggers, any mention of the word “football” here relates to the game played with the foot. […]
Parent: Reconstructed
This post was inspired by this week’s Daily Post: Weekly Writing Challenge: “Student, Teacher.“ Anyone who knew me growing up knows I don’t put up with a lot of nonsense […]
Ghosts of December 23rds Past (WW Challenge)
It was only one week ago I was having a conversation with an old friend about Christmas eves and eves’ eves of times gone by. In the early days at the company where we used to work, we would get half day off on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve. If […]
Weekly Writing Challenge: Moved by Music
Music has always had a great influence in my life. I was the child who knew all the lyrics to songs. I used to keep song books where I had written down the lyrics to all the popular songs at the time. To this day my brother-in-law checks with me […]
Weekly Writing Challenge: Agony Aunt
Tower of London, 18 May 1536 Dear Agony Aunt Bathilda, I am writing with the hope that you will receive this well in advance of any further deterioration of my predicament. Your reputation for competent and thoughtful advice to the lovelorn is legendary here in London. Aunt Bathilda, I had […]
WW Challenge: DNA Analysis
As my teenage daughter strides across a room, I see my grandmother’s gait, long and purposeful. She walks like she’s in a rush, as my grandma always did, and I remember as children we were always trying to keep up with her. My 7 year old son and I dance […]
Late~Night Ruminations 