• Creating a Self-Watering Planter

      I am so pleased this self-watering planter worked!   There are so many different ideas when it comes to building a self-watering planter, but they all head in…

  • Reily’s Luck

    By Louis L’Amour   Sentimentality… Is there a book that takes your breath away every time you hear or read the title? Or one that breaks through the bricks…

  • Their Eyes Were Watching God

    By Zora Neale Hurston Zora Neale Hurston was a female black writer in the early 20th century, and she wrote this novel in 1937.   In Their Eyes Were Watching…

  • Creativity a part of survival

    Creativity. Life has a way of crowding out creativity. But what is life if not creative?   Survival. Survival at the mercy of our society’s structure.   But there…

  • Finding permission to be called a writer

    I am a writer.   It is that simple. I AM a writer.   How can I call myself a writer when there is little current evidence of my craft?…

  • Strengthening the crackling veneer

    Have you ever felt broken? Like someone else is living in your body?   I have, and I think the other person’s name is Meno Pause. Meno has more…