WPC: Dialogue
Inspired by this week’s Photo Challenge: Dialogue For this week’s challenge, bring together two of your photos into dialogue. What do they say to each other?
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 […]
Death to Adverbs! (Writing 101)
Writing 101: Day Eight. – Write a post without adverbs. Maggie trudged down the dusty road with her tired feet and her aching back. Sweat poured from her bronzed forehead as […]
DP: Because the night
I am a night owl. It’s been a perennial source of problems in my life. To start with, as a child, I always went to bed late. That meant being tired […]
Weekly Photo Challenge: On Top
This is in response to this week’s Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge As I was being driven downtown yesterday, I spotted this runner on the same overpass on which we […]
Monument: The Shot Heard Round the World
This is in response to the Daily Post’s Weekly Photo Challenge: Monument. I live in the very center of the site of the American Revolution of 1775. I took these shots […]
Daily Prompt: It’s Friday, I’m in Love
Remember your first crush? I have not been blessed with romantic partners. All my liaisons, boyfriends, and husband have not been gifted by Cupid. While I have always been the […]
Weekly Photo Challenge: Let there be light!
It rained last Tuesday night. The lights created such a hazy effect I knew I had to take some pictures. I grabbed my phone and voila. Even the droplets were […]
Weekly Photo Challenge: Unexpected 2
This sign had us all in giggles. We were about to play mini-golf when we turned the corner and saw this: http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2013/11/22/photo-challenge-unexpected/
Weekly Photo Challenge: Unexpected
We drive by here about once a month to visit a shop for specific ethnic foods. This sign must always have been there, but they recently trimmed the tree around […]
Weekly Photo Challenge: Layers
Mini-roses (potted plant)~ I received this lovely birthday gift from my department-mates last week. I shall enjoy these blooms through the winter months. http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2013/11/15/weekly-photo-challenge-layers/
Non-Regional Diction: Jamaican Labrish
Labrish = gossip, chit-chat. Everyone who has lived in Jamaica or who hangs around Jamaicans will notice that we speak in a corrupt form of English when we are among ourselves. It’s a dialect derived from a combination of Irish, English, and West African words and accents. There is no […]
Late~Night Ruminations 