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. …

for a different way of life it’s said that life is a bitch then you die if you’re not real, then you’re pretty gone, anyway how to live without limitations being free is not free setting boundaries grief kills those lines anger crosses them being free comes at a cost but…

magical memories November’s Fourth Week Prompt of Lifeline — beauty of winter snowflakes are the tears of joy that come to bring us a peaceful day watching out our windows snow falling every which way covered in white everything in nature shone bright our homes and cars, our coats and boots too everything was…

Poem — where failures loom ’til dawn — the night closes in going through the forest trees budded with blooms of failures woods are deep and shadows line the winding paths no free turns no free spins the heart quickens to wide depths of desperation seeing the familiar faces of loved ones and only remorse can be found that stands framed like…

where crazy drivers don’t exist windy, rainy weather my heart’s in a dither when others drive too fast on the road and through parking lots with no thoughts of being careful like raising the roof is how I feel being on the highway gets so loud the weather in my heart the ruckus on the…

holiday goodness November’s Third Week Prompt of Lifeline — keeping your inner child alive a warm gentle woman in the kitchen called Mom filling the house with special aromas of a turkey and stuffing permeating each room a real Douglas fir tree decorated with old-time ornaments and lots of tinsel that turned…