100 Word Challenge: Beauty

April 3, 2019April 3, 2019 ~ Tara R. ~ 8 Comments

This week I got a new haircut. I’m trying to be my true self and embrace the grey. (That’s not grey hair, that’s glitter!) For a while, I went fiery. I had always wanted to be a redhead. I liked it, but one thing about dark hair, dark red hair, is that grey roots are … Continue reading 100 Word Challenge: Beauty

100 Word Challenge: Bird

March 28, 2019March 28, 2019 ~ Tara R. ~ 7 Comments

It must be spring… my songbirds are back. I recently rehung all my bird feeders and hummingbird jars, and my little feathered friends have returned. There are goldfinches, purple finches, wrens, chickadees, titmouses (titmice?), a pair of cardinals, and some I have no name for. Yesterday, I set out a few flowering plants in the … Continue reading 100 Word Challenge: Bird

Boredom

March 27, 2019 ~ Tara R. ~ 4 Comments

It would be easy for me to put it down to boredom, but that would be too simplistic. There were complex undertones and shadowy nuances that played a part in all the decisions leading up to everything I did. But, I was too intent and a glaring flaw in my plan was discovered. A flaw … Continue reading Boredom

100 Word Challenge: Boredom

March 21, 2019March 27, 2019 ~ Tara R. ~ 3 Comments

I hope that this change in seasons will give me the kick I need to get motivated… to do more than sit on my arse and binge watch Netflix. Well, I am crocheting but that takes very little effort. It’s been rainy around here, so even it I was so inclined, I wouldn’t go outside … Continue reading 100 Word Challenge: Boredom

100 Word Challenge: Spot

March 13, 2019March 13, 2019 ~ Tara R. ~ 3 Comments

Perhaps it’s a sign of advancing age, but when I found a little extra money in my budget this month I didn’t opt for new spring clothes or a new purse, no I was more practical. I bought a spot rug cleaner, and I am ][ this close to being giddy about shampooing my carpet. … Continue reading 100 Word Challenge: Spot

100 Word Challenge: Give

March 6, 2019 ~ Tara R. ~ 7 Comments

This week is the beginning of Lent Season ~ that 40-day stretch in the Christian calendar distinguished by hundreds of thousands of people depriving themselves of chocolate and alcohol in the month leading up to Easter ~ Wednesday begins a time of fasting from sin and vice. Just as with making a New Year's Resolution, … Continue reading 100 Word Challenge: Give