UPDATE 5/11/19: I didn’t get a response from Michele Jones to write a chapter and don’t want what is shaping up to be a good story to languish and possibly die on the vine, so I’m choosing another, fabulous writer and hope he agrees to help finish the story: Padre at Padre’s Ramblings. Padre? …
Month: May 2019
Tale Weaver # 222 – The Opportunities of Old Age – May 9th
Myrna had been waking up at sunrise her whole life, or at least since she started school at age 5. That was 75 years ago. Even now she could recall her mother calling her downstairs for Oatmeal, orange juice, and toast for breakfast. Myrna was expected to either hang out laundry or fold laundry before…
Coloring Club Plus — 5/9/19
I was trying to think of a good song for this coloring and finally settled on the woodsy sound of Jethro Tull’s, “The Witches Promise,” a single, released in January 1970. The single was the first recording to feature keyboardist John Evan, who would be a key member of Jethro Tull throughout the 1970s. He…
50 Word Thursday #19 — Best of Friends
`What do you call yourself?’ the Fawn said at last. Such a soft sweet voice it had! – Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll Margerie was spending the summer with her Uncle Nigel at his home in the woodland foothills. Uncle Nigel, a lifelong bachelor, had a live-in housekeeper, Mrs. Monroe, who would…
Climbing (mature audiences warning)
image link At thirty-five years old, Andy became the youngest professor to chair the Semantics Department at Hoddopscott University. Andy was at the apex of his career, and no one would dispute he’d worked his butt off for it. He had left a string of scorched corpses, personal and professional, along the way, but in…
Friday Fictioneers — Barbed reminders
PHOTO PROMPT © Jean L. Hays A once-lush forest was now wasteland. Humans moved in and cut down all of the trees. Once the trees were gone, there was nothing protecting the soil from the scorching sun; it became barren. The wild animals left. Arrogant humans’ ego-driven cravings for ownership built fences for “their” domesticated…
Coloring Club Plus — 5/8/19
Today’s post is in remembrance of Prince. When my brother was in the service and came home on leave he asked me if I had heard of Prince. I said no. He said you’ve got to hear this guy’s music. Purple Rain was the first album I bought, probably after going to see the movie. …
Tao Talk 