Gray billows of cashmere spun by sacred hands whipped cream piled soft heaven’s comforter. A simple response to a T.S. Poetry Press call for cashmere poems. Photo taken from an airplane.
When You Want to be Relevant
Bold and beautiful. Without editing. In five minutes. That’s how we’re supposed to write on Five-Minute Friday. So. Go! It’s not a word I use much. Relevant. But Lisa Jo is at the Relevant Conference. So that word is on her mind. I had to look it up. And then I wondered if it was […]
Book Review ~ Outlining Your Novel: Map Your Way to Success by K.M. Weiland
I’ve been waiting for K.M. to finish this book. And it’s more than I expected. Way more. Easy to read. Fun to read. Organized. It overflows with practical tools and tips for plotter and pantster alike. Just take a look at the table of contents. I mean, really, doesn’t it make you want to dig […]
Aunt Emma
Today Lisa Jo asks us to stop, drop, and write for five minutes on the word, “catch,” without worrying if what we write is right. GO! “Look! Penguins!” I was maybe four years old, and we were at the train station. Great-Aunt Emma had come from out of state for a visit. Sister Mary Lucinda. […]
Just an Ordinary Friday – Not!
It’s Five Minute Friday, and Lisa Jo is asking us to spring off the word, “ordinary.” Five minutes of free writing–no overthinking, no editing. And when you finish reading this, head over to taste some of the other offerings. READY! SET! GO! Just an ordinary Friday morning. We slept with the windows open, though. I […]
Lay Me Down on a Bed of Books
I wake wrapped in zebra sheets. (Maybe that accounts for my battling-the-tiger dreams of the other night.) Light streams through the basement window, and I turn, and full moon hovers bright. I’ve tossed all night, brain churning with medical and financial waves. I reach out and pat them, chenille scattered–Patsy Clairmont and Blackwater Ben and […]
I Have This Need . . .
They came back last year. Full and flowing and bubbling over like the Frio inself. The High Calling editors. Their words carved a hole in my soul. An aching yawn in my heart that longs to be filled with the beauty of a Texas canyon. To embrace those who have become like family. L.L., who […]
Five Minutes with Older: I’m Not Ready to See Jesus
It’s Friday. And it’s Lisa Jo’s birthday. So today our prompt is older. Five minutes to let it spill. This should be easy . . . GO! I’m getting older. With way fewer years on this earth ahead than behind. I have a lot more I want to do and see. But the sands of […]
Walking Wooden
They’re at it again, these two. Claire and L.L. Asking us to stretch our “creative fibers.” To share our history symbolically. In photographic images. And poetry–a sonnet. Claire challenges us to find five photos that answer five specific questions. I didn’t realize how much my life has been shaped by wood. 1. Who Made Up Your […]
Fuel for the Weekend: Five Minutes with Beauty
It’s Friday again. And again I’m linking up with Lisa Jo as we explore beauty in five minutes of pure, unedited spill. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. ~Psalm 139:14 (NIV) GO! They buried Grandma King in her wedding dress. My […]
