Category Archives: WRITING

Last night our writers group finished up a delightful puzzle in an interactive fiction piece by one of our members. He is a history major and is already planning to use IF as a learning tool for his future students. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Early morning, clouded sky and darkened room. Mood is as dreary as the day. I smash a bug that alights upon my desk and as I brush him to the floor, a tiny green light glows, flickers and goes out. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Politics and government, as all else, change with the times. Cycles good and bad will run their course by natural means with intervention by man’s nature, circumstance and vision. Memory changes all of time in time, ruled by these same … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Saturday I was a picture framer, retail pleasant and efficient and precise, though underpaid I be. Sunday found me pulling grass that’s grown to weeds around my gardens, happy working in the sunshine, cranky at the evils nature has thrown … Continue reading → Continue reading →

“You went to a parochial school, didn’t you?” I’ll ask. 95% of the time they confirm it, and look at me in questioning surprise. “Your handwriting,” I say, “it’s evident in your penmanship.” From second grade on, we shall forevermore … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I usually test ride new-found blogs via bloglines for a while before I add to my already overwhelming links of daily reads, but this entry from Mama Write rushed the site straight into my list: “Chapter in My Head Last … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Honesty, as crisp and clear as blue-sky mornings, even clouds defined will blow on by. Nature teaches us to teach our children, never changing, ever changing moving angles; every season different views of what has been and ever will be … Continue reading → Continue reading →

It has begun. The writing that I have avoided or been too lazy to attempt has finally been uncovered in the pile. The reading is as well a thing with deadlines. Dedication was never a problem with me–that instead suited … Continue reading → Continue reading →

For a future heroine perhaps, who shall someday grace a page within a novel: 1. White vinegar helps the itchies of poison ivy. 2. When the rash appears along the length of both arms, you have most likely hugged an … Continue reading → Continue reading →

As often happens (more and more these days, it seems), my mind is filled with focusing in on one idea in the early morning, but then as hours go by I’ve picked up more ideas. Those that are unrelated I … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Goodness, just when I was getting the hang of it–or so I thought; Alan at Fresh Bilge has posted and pointed us to an example of mixed, scrambled, and overbaked metaphor in journalism. I have always preferred, as does Alan, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

For months she’d felt the weight of life upon her body, bearing down to bow a head and slope bare shoulders once held straight and proud. Her heavy mind felt like a ball of granite, knowing only one way to … Continue reading → Continue reading →

In today’s New York Times, the article, “Could Your Voice Betray You?” by Douglas Heingartner covers the aspects of lie-detector testing and its value in measuring voice stress to analyze whether a person may be telling the truth, particularly used … Continue reading → Continue reading →