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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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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Balance Is A Choice

May 11, 2008

Have y’all seen the little old lady in the buffet line? You know the one I mean. She drives you nuts, because she is so dadgum slow! While you stand there grumbling, she carefully fills her plate. She dawdles around while you fume. She takes a little bit of this, and a dab of that, [...]

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Helium.com–It’s A Lot of Hot Air

February 18, 2007

The last two days, I have been exploring Helium.com. Have you never seen it? I ran across it on MySpace. There was an advertisement that said something to the effect of: earn money for your writing at Helium.com. Hey, I’m writing every day, so I thought it might be worth a shot. I was wrong. [...]

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