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Welcome to this week’s Tuesday Tales. Our word prompt is GLUE. If you’ve been following these posts from Listen to the Stones, the story has moved on. I’ve been working on it, and I’ve finished several chapters since the last snippet I gave you. These images were said to have been taken in Montpelier, NewContinue reading “Tuesday Tales: From the Word GLUE”

Today is Mother’s Day in Canada. It’s an annual holiday where our spouses and offspring are supposed to celebrate all the blood, sweat, and tears that go into being a mother. In the pictrue on the left, that’s me and my mother taken 66 years ago. How I hated what I referred to as myContinue reading “Mother’s Day Without Mom”

Good morning. Got my exercise this morning as you can see and now, after I recover, I’ll get to work doing more laundry and writing the final chapters of Listen to the Stones. This week was a busy one for me. Tuesday, I spent the day at a track meet. I wore a hat butContinue reading “Random Questions on a Friday Morning”

Welcome to May. Let’s hope Mother Nature is generous with her May flowers. A little consistent heat would be nice, too. It’s a bright sunny 64F today. I’ll take it. Welcome to this week’s Tuesday Tales. My word prompt today is BOIL. I’m continuing with Listen to the Stones. Enjoy! He set his duffel bagContinue reading “Tuesday Tales: From the Word BOIL”

I had plans for today, plans that didn’t include rain. My first thought was ugh! So much for doing that. But then I decided to change my attitude. It’s spring. it’s not freezing outside, it’s 55F or 13C where I live. It could be snowing. After all it is May, and May is an unpredictableContinue reading “Thoughts on Another Rainy Monday Morning”

When you get to be my age, I view the task of spring cleaning the same way I view climbing Mount Everest–unachievable, a disaster waiting to happen, but not this year. No, I haven’t miraculously gotten taller and grown muscles. What I have done is hire my sixteen-year-old granddaughter to do the job for me.Continue reading “Spring Cleaning Underway and I’m Still Standing!”

Let’s face it. You do one little internet search and for the next few months you’re inundated with ads for that one thing you searched. My bathroom will be renovaated long before I stop seeing ads for Step-in tubs for seniors. Just sit with your phone on and talk about a vacation to some placeContinue reading “Things that Pop Up on my Feed”

When I decided to try my hand at romantic comedy, sometimes called chick-lit, I struggled with what to write. I knew that I would be working in the first person, something I’d never done, and that I would have a narrow point of view for the plot. I also knew that I would be dealingContinue reading “Tequila Sunrise. Inspiration Can Come From Anywhere!”

We did it! We blogged our hearts out and touched the hearts of others –at least that’s how I feel about this year’s blog challenge. Going into my mail and finding the links to all the blogs I followed this year became as vital to my day as that cup of coffee, and responding toContinue reading “A to Z Challenge Blog 2024, Reflection”

Welcome to May and this month’s IWSG question: May 1 question – How do you deal with distractions when you are writing? Do they derail you? Yes and no. It all depends on what I’m writing and when. If I am in the creative stage and am running along on a great plot or characterContinue reading “ISWG Monthly Blog for May 2024”