I love to visit Virginia’s blog, First 50 Words. She is an excellent teacher and provides prompts that take your mind soaring through fun exercises in writing. She generously provides many ideas for blogs, for writing personal histories, for creating fiction … it’s all there. She has a teaching background and has written several books [...]
Question: What model, make, and color of car would you choose that best describes how you see yourself. Question: What model, make, and color of car would you choose that you think describes how others see you. (This is a question you can ask someone else about yourself.) These are questions I used to ask [...]
“What is that thing walking down the sidewalk?” It looked like a cross between a kangaroo rat, a Martian, and a scrawny, hairless rabbit. Whatever it was it looked like it was a baby and it wobbled on extra long legs like a newborn horse … but it definitely wasn’t a horse. And if you [...]
I’m back in business. It is nice to be home where the sun shines warm! From here to Salt Lake City is about 300 miles but there is sure a huge difference in our climate! I received a wet welcome home … the baby, the dog, and the cat were all so excited to see [...]
I’m heading up to Salt Lake tomorrow to speak at the funeral of my nephew. It is always hard to say goodbye when death separates loved ones but it is particularly hard when they are young and healthy and their death is totally unexpected. He wasn’t born not with a silver spoon in his mouth; [...]
