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. …

Poem — the magic of letting go — silence fills my soul my mind lies dressed in white studded rants of broken false promises that have been let go my body sits on a throne of canopies that savors the shielding framework that’s been given a reprieve a celebration of sorts the kind that duly penetrates a being released of…

June’s Third Week Prompt of Lifeline — Solitude I wait in solitude to hear the voice of Spring to feel the warmth of the sun and soft breezes breathing in the scent of flowers waiting for the silence to woo me keeping me close putting its charm around me in an embrace like…

Poetry — details flitting about my head inside and outside, so much dread packing up the trash, putting it out cleaning the house whenever I’m about five phone calls, add five more mail coming in piling at my door bills to pay, house and clothes to clean never a dull moment have I…