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. …

Easing Loss I’ve often wished memories were enough and more than wistful images and places you’ve been where those we love visit our minds and hearts. Some days they’re just not enough to quench my yearning for their presence like having a cup of coffee with Mom or a card…

Fiction short — One day a boy left his home to become a man. …

Thoughts in the Rain September’s Third Week Prompt of Lifeline pitter patter what does it matter listening to chatter feeling like the Mad Hatter keeping our cool not minding the fools discipline the rule temperance the school letting things slide feelings to protect and hide lengthening the ride resistance will abide turning the tide…

September’s Second Week Prompt of Lifeline — childhood memories it was crowded the nights scary buses and cars screeching to a stop gang fights on corners not a quiet place brothers gritting teeth & snoring eyelids trying to close but the bed was too small my sister’s butt up against…