I have a problem with self-discipline, particularly around eating sweets. For example, I made a half batch of English toffee today with honey and butter and by now – 10 o’clock at night – I have eaten every bit of it except for the last piece. That means I have eaten 1/4 cup of butter…
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Run, Don’t Walk to This Place if You’re Anywhere Near LA
My daughters gave me gift certificates for several massages for my birthday and today Rachael and Liz took me to the “Oasis Relax Spa Foot Massage” location, where we all three had an hour-long massage for 20 bucks a piece. Yes, that was an HOUR for TWENTY bucks and it wasn’t just a quick slam,…
Flash Prompt: Haiku on Night and Sweet Sleep
Silence surrounds me Night’s chill permeates the air A far-off dog barks My body craves warmth Soft bed and heavy blankets Dreams of summer days Sweet sleep calls to me Restorative night awaits Sunrise pink with hope
Please Watch: Pride Of The Horseman – YouTube
My friend Randy’s poem, which he worked on in our writing group, now the narration of this video he produced. Beautiful and inspiring. Well worth watching! Pride Of The Horseman – YouTube.
Flash Prompt: Happiness Is:
Happiness is: A new charger for my computer. A completed term paper for Huck Finn. A completed term paper for Catch 22. A complete term paper for Beloved. A warm bed waiting for me. The possibility of sleeping until at least 7 am. Yes!
Computer-less Until Tomorrow
Today, my computer’s power adaptor gave up the ghost (as my mother would say) and I am left to file my daily post on my phone. Needless to say, I will be brief. Cough is better. Two more term papers near completion. New adaptor hopefully arrives tomorrow. I am a woman lost without a compuer,…
Too Tired to Move Even My Fingers!
Eight hour of students today. That is a lot when you’re working one on one. Happy to head to bed. Toni Morrison and Beloved term paper complete. Huck Finn and Catch 22 well on their way. Also, met with the college brother of one of my high school students and we began researching the fast…
Flash Essay: Chest Cold, Students and the Oscars
I have a grand chest cold, one that causes me to seize up when I cough and rattle when I breathe. No fever, no aches and pains, just a cough that makes people instinctively step back, as if to say, “Please don’t give me whatever it is you’ve got.” Besides that, I saw students from…
Flash Essay: What I’ve Learned from Research about Huck Finn
I am helping one of my students with a term paper on Huck Finn and as part of the process, we’ve researched what inspired Mark Twain to write the books he did. Here is some of what I’ve learned: Mark Twain (aka Samuel Clemens) started Huck Finn in order to tell the humorous anecdotes he’d…
Great Post on How to Take Risks and Expand Your Writer Network
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