Expect The Unexpected

July 19, 2011

I woke up Monday morning, and I was feeling pumped! I was thrilled because I was getting back in the swing of writing for this blog. After a weekend filled with frolic, I had interesting subjects for my posts. Y’all, that hasn’t happened for awhile, because I have been busily making afghans for Share A [...]

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Window Shopping in Uptown

March 2, 2011

We had an interesting window shopping excursion in the uppity part of Dallas last weekend. It was only because I got a last minute call from my friend Len Barnett, whose group (Percussion Things) was performing at Bookmarks. Because it’s a library, they wanted a storyteller to tell tales as they drummed. I’m well aware [...]

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The Writing Doldrums

September 4, 2010

Have y’all ever had days when you can’t seem to write? Perhaps you want to do so, but you can’t “bring yourself to the page.” Some days when I sit in front of my computer screen, looking at the blank page titled “Add New Post,” I’m excited about the prospect of writing. My fingers fly [...]

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As A Writer, I Have Multiple Personality Disorder

July 22, 2010

Have y’all ever wondered about your “writing style?” Personally, I never had. I simply put words on the page that seem readable to me … and hope it works for you. Usually, I try to pack it full of puns … but they are obscure to anyone but me. “Style” after all, seems a bit [...]

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Musing On The Question: For Whom Do You Write

January 26, 2010

“For whom do you write?” That’s the provocative question that Janie posed at Colloquium. I decided to ask that question of my Muse — that “inner child” of mine who is the inspiration for my creativity. Ask a silly question question of a silly person, and here is what you get. OK, Muse. For whom [...]

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Leavening

December 18, 2009

Have you ever watched bread dough rising? I have. Trust me on this, it’s boring! When my Mamaw baked bread, she always told us kids to be quiet or the bread wouldn’t rise. I don’t know if that’s true … I think she was just making a feeble attempt to shut us up. My cousins [...]

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Segues

October 13, 2009

Those of us who use search engines on computers are familiar with segues. It means: “to make a transition from one thing to another smoothly and without interruption.” It happens to me every day. I start searching for something, for instance “warning signs of swine flu,” and when I find that I click on a [...]

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Amazing Visions Blog Carnival

March 22, 2009

[This is a guest post by my friend Damien Riley at Riley Central, who has a delightful writing prompt for you. I've asked him to tell you a bit about it, in the hopes that it will inspire you to join his blog carnival.] ******* Walt Disney had amazing vision, as did many special people [...]

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