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. Her…

August’s First Week Prompt of Lifeline — a love that altered your life it was love at first sight I never thought that love could come instantly but it did soft, wrinkly skin warm upon my chest a bundle that took my heart right from the start it happened twice…

Poetry tall stately trees green as green can be deeply rich like colors dipped in extra paint their presence a safe harbor birds take refuge, making a home to nestle in children play and climb an aged tree gifting the newcomers people breathe in their fresh scent taking its shade for…

Prompted by Denise Larkin at The Lark — to write about someone that made a difference — My brother Angelo died at the age of 47 of a massive heart attack. Part of me died that day too. He was an integral part of my childhood always watching out for me when he returned from serving in the Navy. He taught me to swim taking me to…