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 — what’s behind the veil? I’ve seen those faces before impassive looks that seem tired or distant no emotions prevail but sit on an empty shelf not interested couldn’t care less dulled by mental disarray not knowing where it belongs accosted by unreadable thoughts blanked out by heaviness of a deeper kind and scattered…

February’s First Week Prompt of Lifeline — Body Positivity my body was getting frumpy so I joined a gym the parts that are bumpy are looking now more slim I can look and see that it’s okay to be me yet to be challenged, honoring change, points the way to…

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…