Random Thought for the Day
If happy thoughts truly could make you fly, my feet would rarely touch the ground as long as Sprocket was in my life.
I just love my dog!
If happy thoughts truly could make you fly, my feet would rarely touch the ground as long as Sprocket was in my life.
I just love my dog!
This past weekend, I attended Gallifrey One, a Los Angeles Doctor Who convention, with my husband. One of the sessions we attended was led by Christopher Jones, a Minnesota-based illustrator, and comic book artist. He did his session in a really interesting way that I think you could probably adapt to your work, as well….
Why is that when all a person has tried is a pumpkin pie, this same person professes to dislike pumpkins? Have they considered that it might be something else about the pie they don’t like? Or possibly that the combination of pumpkin with cinnamon is what they object to? Maybe, if they gave pumpkins a…
I read this story about how tadpoles become frogs and I love using it as an metaphor for how we should look at obstacles in our lives. I recently included this story in a speech I gave at the Toastmasters club and thought I’d share it with you.
Ah! A new, mold-free, well-lighted apartment. And better than that, an apartment my dog hasn’t “christened” — and we’ve been there for more than 24 hours, too! Such small joys make me feel hopeful for the future.
Today I’m writing about tanka for my Examiner.com column. So I thought I’d write a sample tanka because I can’t seem to find the one I wrote when I was doing a report on poetry in the 5th grade. Here is what I came up with: I pick up her bowl and recall her furry…
At this point, I’ve had several guests on The Genre Traveler Podcast who have collaborated on projects with another writer. These included a mother-son team, a horror writer, and a duo writing under a single pen name. I once collaborated on a very short story during a summer school class and remember that it was…