Valentines Day Feature — Three Roses

Happy Valentine’s Day All I’ve been trying to decide what angle to approach Valentines Day in my writing today. Valentines Day is a iconic celebration of love between two people. Not everyone has the blessings of being in reciprocal love with another person. It’s difficult not to feel like you’re missing out on this day…

Reena’s Exploration Challenge #122 — Professor Pettigrew’s Magic

Credit: Daniel Salmieri in A Velocity of Being Johnny’s English 101 teacher was the old-fashioned kind, and Johnny wasn’t sure he liked the old-fashioned kind. English 101 was Johnny’s 8 a.m. Monday-Thursday class in his freshman year at the community college. The first class Professor Pettigrew laid out the groundwork for the semester as he…

Cloud Streets

From mlive.com: By Tanda Gmiter | tgmiter@mlive.com The Arctic cold snap that is pushing through the Great Lakes today and tomorrow might make being outside feel brutally frigid, but it’s doing some really lovely things to the clouds overhead. This freezing air pouring over our warmer Great Lakes is creating “cloud streets” – nice little…

dVerse MTB — evil in waiting

It was a regular Saturday morning for the junior bowling league, where my 10 year old son’s and other teams rolled, which took up many of the 50 lanes at the alley, but not all; there was open bowling, where looking around I saw a white man in his 30s or older with a young…

Paul McCartney — Oo You

image link This album was originally two sides, but what I have borrowed from the library has a bonus disk of music. I’ve just gotten through the album proper and am about to go to the bonus disk that has 7 tracks on it. I had forgotten how much I love this album. It’s all…

#FF — Thawing Pillars

PHOTO PROMPT © Rochelle Wisoff-Fields Melissa’s family Century farm was doing well. Her grandparents would be proud. Robert’s family grocery store was ready for a change after seventy-five years. Both Melissa and Robert were in their fifties and had devoted their lives to their work, leaving little for things like relationships. Nowville’s small community’s progressives…