This has been a tough week so far for me. I’m gonna blame that mostly on spring. Spring and I have this love-hate relationship. I love it. It hates me. I hate the cold so I’m normally the first in the family to start counting the days to spring. Often I start the day… Read More One of Those Weeks… Read More One of Those Weeks
Anna fidgeted with the side of her tunic as she stood, waiting. The group of men before her were all familiar to her, but she had never before been called to the formal assembly. Her eyes focused on Tamal as the Rabbi rose and walked to the center of the large room and stopped a few feet in front of… Read More Fiction Friday – The Summons – Flash Fiction… Read More Fiction Friday – The Summons – Flash Fiction
Thursday is my Wednesday. I work Tuesday through Saturday so the middle of my week is on Thursday. it’s my humpday. While everyone else is coming to the end of their week and rejoicing over the fact that their weekend begins the next day, I’m still trying to crawl through the middle. Normally this… Read More Writing IS a Real Job… Read More Writing IS a Real Job
“Come here, child.” “Yes, Father?” “Ok, listen to me now, I have a job for you to do. I want you to go into the kitchen and clean it up. There are dishes that need to be done, the floor needs to be swept and mopped, counters cleaned. We have company coming and I want… Read More Clean the Kitchen- An Allegory… Read More Clean the Kitchen- An Allegory
Several years ago, there was a TV show called The Pretender. The show ran for six years from 1996 to 2000. The main character, Jerod, was a Pretender. Pretenders could become anything they wanted to be. As a child, Jerod was a prodigy who had been abducted and raised in a think tank called The Centre. He… Read More The Pretender… Read More The Pretender
It was May 9th, 1914, President Woodrow Wilson signed a presidential proclamation that officially establishes the first national Mother’s Day holiday in the U.S. But that wasn’t the first time Mother’s Day had been celebrated. Not even in the U.S. The ancient Greeks had held a celebration in honor of the goddess called Rhea, who they believed to be the mother… Read More Mother’s Day: One of the Best Days of the Year… Read More Mother’s Day: One of the Best Days of the Year