Cover art from MabelAmber. Creators all over the internet are taking advantage of this quarantine to create more than normal. There are more podcasts, more blog posts, more art. Every other post online seems to be about how everyone’s stuck at home, so we might as well have good things to read, watch and listenContinue reading “Weekends at play”
Category Archives: My Writing
Gracie
Gracie wasn’t anything like the kids I usually deal with. Most kids that get dropped in my lap are seeking foster homes for terrible reasons. Abusive parents, drug addict parents, dead parents. The kids come in shell shocked and broken. Some are screaming obscenities and ready for a fight over anything. Some can’t string twoContinue reading “Gracie”
Music
My family always loved music. I remember, when I was a very little girl, Mamma would start singing whenever my sisters would fight. It always calmed them down. At night, Papa would play his violin for us. He played every night, even when he was tired, and he was often tired. He played and MammaContinue reading “Music”
Writing 101, Day 9
Rough draft, mostly playing with this idea. WARM It was warm out finally, and thank God for that, Marcey thought. At 72, the cold was no fun. But finally the winter chill had gone, the wet grass was dried by the late May sun, and she could take her work to the park. So sheContinue reading “Writing 101, Day 9”
Done!
Okay, so I didn’t write a response to the Writing 101 post today, because I was busy finishing this instead. That pile of five composition notebooks is the first draft of Starting Chains, book two of Woven. After working on it since November, it is finally done! Oh, and that’s my sort of creepy cat,Continue reading “Done!”
Paper Beats World 