• Get those writing juices flowing!

    Here are seven new words to get those writing juices flowing for a paragraph-long story. You can still write a story using the words from the last couple of posts. Just go to past projects, click on the writing project you want to submit for and submit the story through the comment section below the instructions. Submit a story for as many as you would like!   The new words: Snow, spring, crocodile, orange, teal, fluid, inconsistence.    

  • What does Easter mean to you?

    Tell me what Easter means to you.              

  • More words!

    Let’s try this again!! I will post seven more words today and let’s see if you can come up with a paragraph-sized story using all seven words. You can still write a story using the words from the last project. Just go to past projects, click on the writing project you want to submit for and submit the story through the comment section below the instructions. Submit a story for as many as you would like! The seven words for today are: Fairy, yellow, green, flighty, toilet, leaf, amble.    

  • Words, words, words

    With all the enthusiasm lost on the last writing exercise, I decided to go back to something simple and fun. I am starting with seven words to be included in a single-paragraph story. Please check it out and submit your paragraph stories through the comment box below. Here goes… The first seven words are: Ice, white, purple, mice, barrel, yogurt and malicious.  

  • New writing haven

    I have always wanted a roll-top desk. Not just any roll-top desk. A big one like the old post office desks with lots of small cubbies or drawers. Now I have one. When we set up our small office two years ago my desk was shoe-horned into the 50 inches between the side of the closet in the wall, and Ron spread out on the opposite wall. I chose that area because of the window. The small desk, which is the one Ron and his brother shared when they were children, fit nicely under the window and a tall bookcase…

  • Gun control, or not?

    I have been sitting back watching the debate about tightening the gun control laws following the shootings in Newtown and wondering where people’s heads are. Let me preface this blog by saying I have never liked guns. When my children were young, the only guns I would allow them to play with squirted water. They were told not to use their hands as pretend guns, and that guns were never to be pointed at people. Then we moved out to rural Minnesota and there were guns in every household. Nearly everyone hunted, so rifles were the most common. I understand…