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…

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 — good for the soul a heart that makes others happy follows a less traveled road it’s a listening heart that delights in watching tear-stained faces turn into smiles and hunched over shoulders bracing upright like blossoms on a tree, it fills the empty spaces with beauty and fragrance …

A walk in the park — women's equality and a first kiss — A novel is a novel thing imagining what a story can bring always new whenever you begin a path to make you smile and grin When the sun rises pouring its light upon the world, we are enchanted, delighted to live another day. That’s life — bewitching and beautiful. Writing…

November’s Fourth Week Prompt of Lifeline — Uncertainty sometimes we have to wait for the clouds of whether or not to pass not everything can be decided on the spot, a task hard life decisions like health and needs balancing a budget that tends to recede whether to go or…

November’s Third Week Prompt of Lifeline — Body Positivity beauty is in the eye of the beholder as it has been said I try to see the beauty in me but that’s never easy except when I’m writing a poem or story or novel what I don’t like that I’ve…

Poem — storylike — a fallen leaf fallen trees brush scattered everywhere a storm like no other birds flying south leaving to find new homes the forest lay in piles of rubble branches juxtaposed like close cousins intermittent branch fallings rained upon the ground the only noise of companionship echoing over the land…