Teaching and Loving the Students — From the movie, Motherless Brooklyn, quote from actor Ed Norton playing Lionel Essrog: “Frank said anyone teaching God’s love while they hit you with a stick should be ignored on every subject.” Can anyone relate to this quote? Catholic school memories could take you down this path if you went…

A poem —

How we compare — This story stems from a writing prompt given to our writing group when I was in college. “Zeus, aged, like the wind in his hair, but strong and virile as a youth, climbs Olympus and opens the mountain’s eye and reaches in to take the light that molds to his…

Fiction Short — Once upon a hill lived an old woman with scraggly grey hair wrapped in a bun. Wisps of curls laced her face top and side like bunches of frayed cotton balls. She rarely went to the market or outside except to tend her garden and then only on Sundays. …

Poetry — haiku —

Poetry — one early morning that people pick up their pet’s waste that we remember to use right and left-hand signals when driving that the person in front of us in a store line remembers to bring their checkbook or that their credit card works that the sun shines all…

Poetry — lost on the sea —

March’s Second Week Prompt of Lifeline — Gratefulness times of gratefulness can come instantly for the reasons of what’s happening at the moment that makes us happy where we feel fortunate for the good moments in life and the good people sometimes gratefulness comes after a hardship when good can come…

Lifeline’s First Week Prompt of March — The Power of True Friendship friendship is our way of surviving how alone we can be in the world our way of connecting to those who like us, our passions resounding the same, our experiences and feelings too like butter and cream, our…