Daily Prompt: Smell You Later

The writing prompt today was as follows: Humans have very strong scent memory. Tell us about a smell that transports you. Think 1980-something, in the fall and early winter. Teenage girls, donning Gloria Vanderbilt, Sergio Valente or Sasson jeans and fuzzy sweaters, and coating soft, supple, unspoiled skin with Merle Norman makeup. The bathroom mirror […]

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Weekly Photo Challenge: One shot, two ways

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It’s a bad day, not a bad life

The alarm woke me up angrily as if to say there is no time to spare, not another blink of sleep is to occur on my watch!  The door reached out to clobber me in the side of my head as I dragged a less than cooperative body to the bathroom.  The water was cold […]

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Sherbet sunset

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Never give up!

Wise words of Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Shuffling a little slower now

They walked out of CVS together, cars impatiently waiting for them to make their way slowly through the crosswalk.  I watched the struggle with empathy, silently imagining what their long history together might have entailed.  They both approached the car and she slowly and carefully got in the passenger side.  He opened the driver’s side […]

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Foreshadow

Foreshadow: A warning or indication of a future event. The familiar sound of the reel shortly after my husbands bait hit the water,  indicated that a fish would soon be in the boat and a little later, on my plate.

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Deposits in our children

As I look back on the past 47 years of my life, I am convinced that of all of the lives I have touched, the biggest impact has been on my children. Knowing this, I contemplate the failures which sometimes seemed as plentiful as the successes.  For this, I can promise, you will fail at […]

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The ripple

  When I took the picture of this duck, I caught myself looking at the ripples.  It never ceases to amaze me how that if we let God’s creation teach us, it never fails.  There is a lesson in every scene. As the duck paddled its legs beneath him, the water rippled out revealing motion.  […]

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What have you planted today?

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