My journal of big words and pretty pictures
It’s just another nostalgic, teenage craze, Mother. No need for you to worry. I even dabbled a little at her age. If she was jumping off bridges because all her friends were, would you still be so patronizing? She’s in no physical danger, you’re getting hysterical over nothing, Just let it run its course. Next … Continue reading It’s a passing phase
You would have to be living under a rock if you haven't heard of the newest Pokémon craze. A huge fad from the late 90s, early 2000’s, Pokémon was everywhere - collector cards, cartoons, movies and video games. Well, it’s back, and back in a big way. When my son was little, he collected the cards. … Continue reading 100 Word Challenge: Craze
Goodwood Duxford tales... “This all has me so discombobulated.” Goodwood Duxford sat next to Grace Leighton on a small, concrete, grieving bench near her grave site. He was seeking the dearly-departed, Widow Leighton’s help in quashing a wraith uprising. An uprising much like the one that killed Goody’s great-grandfather, Egbert. “How can I help you … Continue reading Secret weapon
I sit at my great-grandmother’s knee on the porch of her old farmhouse. A tangle of wool sheared from her Cheviots sheep, dyed a bright yellow from sedge grass I gathered last fall, is wound loosely around my hands. She lifts the wool from my outstretched arms, twisting the yarn into a small ball of … Continue reading Spinning yarns
High in a blue sky I spy with my little eye A child’s pastel moon
Clutter is a way of life at my house. I used to say that my home wasn’t messy, it was “lived in.” It’s not that I haven’t tried to get control of the tsunami of accumulated STUFF, but most of it isn’t mine and getting rid of any of it would set off an epic … Continue reading 100 Word Challenge: Yarn
Thin spiral notebook 