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J is for Journal - A-Z Writing Challenge
J is for Journal in the 2012 A-Z Writing Challenge. Do you keep a journal?When I was growing up, a journal was something one kept that was far more exacting than a diary. You were recording your...
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K is for Kissing - A-Z Writing Challenge
K is for Kissing or Osculation in the 2012 A-Z Writing Challenge. Hands down, we humans have it over other bipeds on this planet. And, because there are some cultures that don't believe in kissing on...
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L is for Left Behind A-Z Writing Challenge
L is for Left Behind in the 2012 A-Z Writing Challenge. Three weeks into December in the small Massachusetts town, where doors were left unlocked and the neighbors helped raise the children, was a...
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M is for Marmalade - A-Z Writing Challenge
M is for Marmalade in the 2012 A-Z Writing Challenge. Marmalade is my absolute favorite of all the jellied, jammed, preserved, fruits! All over the world, marmalades are made and embellished (my...
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N is for Nurture and Navigation - A-Z Writing Challenge
N is for Nurture and Navigation in the 2012 A-Z Writing Challenge.Proverbs 22:6 teaches us to, "Raise a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it." This is stated in...
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O is for Opinions - A-Z Writing Challenge
O is for Opinions in the 2012 A-Z Writing Challenge. Thanks to the Internet, we have a plethora of blogs written by women who freely share their opinions on everything that interests them, as well as...
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P is for Procrastination - A-Z Writing Challenge
P is for Procrastination in the 2012 A-Z Writing Challenge. Are you a procrastinator -- putting off, today, what could have been an easy task to another day that turns into a frenzied nightmare of...
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Q is for Questions - A-Z Writing Challenge
Q is for Questions in the 2012 A-Z Writing Challenge. Questions, questions, questions. Sometimes, it feels as though my head is a-swirl with questions. One answer is never satisfactory. I need answers...
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R is for the Renaissance Man/Woman A-Z Writing Challenge
R is for the Renaissance Man/Woman in the 2012 A-Z Writing Challenge.The Renaissance Man or Woman is a polymath or someone with expertise in a wide variety of subjects. It was considered a compliment...
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S is for Singing and Song Lyrics Writing Challenge
S is for Singing and Song Lyrics in the 2012 A-Z Writing Challenge. Here I am, running around like a chicken with its head cut off, because I'm trying to get ready for the Midtown Market which opens...
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T is for Time A-Z Writing Challenge
T is for Time in the 2012 A-Z Writing Challenge. Time is one of my favorite play-pretties, and it seems to be the same with my friends. It's exacting, elastic, exasperating, and unforgiving (I wish I...
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U is for Unctuous Undercurrents- A-Z Writing Challenge
U is for Unctuous in the 2012 A-Z Writing Challenge. Okay. I have to apologize. I hit the wrong date for publishing and this was supposed to be online, first thing PDT.... (I hang my head in...
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V is for Vegetables and Visions A-Z Writing Challenge
V is for Vegetables and Visions in the 2012 A-Z Writing Challenge. Most of you know that I like to garden -- edible vegetables! Oh, yeah, and, last night was my first meal from this year's garden,...
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W is for Winning! Wrong! WTF! - A-Z Writing Challenge
W is for Winning! Wrong! WTF! in the 2012 A-Z Writing Challenge. We all enjoy winning, don't we? Well, I do. Not every time there's a competition or drawing, but, at least, winning my share over a...
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X is for Xylophone A-Z Writing Challenge
X is for Xylophone in the 2012 A-Z Writing Challenge. The xylophone is often confused with the vibraphone but they are two very distinctly different percussion instruments. For an in-depth...
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Y is for Yellowback A-Z Writing Challenge
Y is for Yellowback in the 2012 A-Z Writing Challenge. Okay. Admit it. Some of you writers here on the Challenge have, in fact, read a cheap, sensational, novel; right? Novelette? Never?!? Mmmmmmm......
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Z is for Zipping the A-Z Writing Challenge Closed
Z is for Zipped and Done in the 2012 A-Z Writing Challenge. It seemed right that Zippers should be the final entry in this year's challenge. Finished the project and zipping it closed until next year...
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Reflections on A-Z Writing Challenge for 2012
It's over... phew! April came so FAST, this year; don't you think? I do want to thank all of the Co-Hosts of this year's Challenge and hope those of you who are reading this will also take the time to...
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A-Z 2013 - A Writing App for This Year!
This year's 2013 A-Z Challenge is going to be sooooooo easy! Oh, yes. Because, I've invented an app that makes writing a cinch. Just type in one word using that day's beginning letter, press return,...
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A-Z 2013 - Being There
"What would you like me to do?""Can I help?""Just give me a call, if you need me." While meant with good intentions, sometimes -- well, most times -- it would be better to just do something without...
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A-Z 2013 - Creative Cupcakes Cause Crises
This is a cupcake -- today's version of a cupcake. Everywhere you look, today, you'll find little works of art gracing the covers of magazines that used to have beautiful normal cakes. Where have those...
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A-Z 2013 - Doors of Our Lives
Every time we face a door, we are making a choice that will affect our lives and our souls. Open it and discover a whole new world or hate turning that knob because only negative people and numbing...
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A-Z 2013 - Exercise, Envy, Expedience
Spring has arrived but my body is still very much showing the effects of my selfless disposal of holiday treats -- perpetuating a cycle of 'waste not, waist not.' Truth be told (and, who doesn't, when...
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A-Z 2013 - Failing is Not Always Our Fault
NOT MY FAULT!!! It's the end of the first week for the Challenge and I've been feeling the pressure. Until my own "Do it for the Gipper!" pep-talk, I felt like a failure. Why? Because, last year, I...
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A-Z 2013 - Grasshopper Parable Revisited
I just love parables; don't you? A gentle approach of delivery for basic standards within one's family and community. Aesop's The Grasshopper and the Ant is one of my favorites because it reminds us...
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