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 — how do you awaken? — awakening with advice to give and a marathon of things to do do what works and let go of the old stuff so I let go of stagnant things that surround me in every room making space and moving around the much-needed things that I use mornings sometimes look like…

January’s Fourth Week Prompt of Lifeline — Movie Character movies are soil under my feet earthly goodness that nourishes me helping me to grow like nature filling me with love and appreciation, fun, and enjoyment of the deepest kind Denzel Washington’s and Ethan Hawke’s performances in Training Day are so powerful…

January’s Third Week Prompt of Lifeline — People You Have Known many faces have come and gone memories still pressed into my heart people I’ve known helped me to have fun and grow, comforting me during tough times always opportunities to learn and be kind relationships that grow buds and some that don’t…

My Entry for Be Open Writing Contest #1 — Poetry (New Year Vibes) — the slush of a past year disappears as a new year rings in giving rise to hope that this year will be better than last hope is upright and hasn’t sagged yet you try to push the old worries away in your heart some of those worries have been resolved, yet a…

January’s Second Week Prompt of Lifeline — 2023 Write a poem in the style of, or in honor of your favorite poet the snow in my hair penetrating my thoughts of shovels and backaches it does no good to whine about the weather which sinks its wintry claws like vampire nails into every…