80 Days, 4 Goals, 5 Questions, and 116 Years
80 Days I first joined up with the Round of Words in 80 Days Challenge back in April and set specific goals for my writing career. I met all my goals in about half the time. So in one sense, the endeavor…
Friday Fiction: What Are Your Guilty Pleasures?
Yes, of course, we are all high-brow literature lovers with titles like The Brothers Karamazov and A Tale of Two Cities gracing our bookshelves. We can’t wait to hear the winner of the next Pulitzer Prize and dutifully read New York…
Wednesday Words: Shakespeare Shares
How many people can say that they coined phrases that will still be in use over 400 years after they introduced them? Only a handful, I would think. But I have discovered that William Shakespeare is to credit, or blame,…
Monday Musings: Happy without a Housekeeper
As I got crouched down and scrubbed the bottom of my toilet bowl, I thought about how a lot of people hate to clean stuff. We like having things clean . . . but cleaning them ourselves is altogether different.…
Friday Fiction: It’s a Classic!
Don’t know what to read? Pick up a “classic.” There is a reason that some books survive the weathering of time and become classics. While we may not enjoy every read in that section of our library or bookstore, plenty…
Wednesday Words: What’s in a Name?
“What’s in a name? A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” – William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet It’s a beautiful line from an amazing play, but is it true? Would we still be talking about these star-crossed lovers…
Monday Musings: Where Is My Stuff?
I love an opening scene from the sitcom The King of Queens where wife Carrie is berating husband Doug for not having any idea whatsoever where things are in their own home. Boy, can I relate! [youtube=http://youtu.be/whLeL1JGq9k&w=400] By default, I…
Friday Fiction: The Club Picks
Like many of you, I’ve been in a book club for several years now. Our book club meets every other month, reads one or two selections, and discusses the book(s) for a little while and our personal lives for a long…
Wednesday Words: A Herd of Labels
It’s a herd of cattle, a school of fish, a pride of lions, a gaggle of geese, a flock of seagulls, and a of whales. Who knows? Another oddity of the English language is how many words we have invented…
Monday Musings: Facing Forty
I can’t remember how I spent birthday number 10, but for my 20th I threw my own birthday party at a local Abilene restaurant and invited my friends, after which we went to a classic movie at the refurbished Paramount…