Spend any time at all on one of my social media sites and you are likely to deduce that I enjoy helping the FSU Film School find people and things. Pigs? Babies? Restraining Straps? Yes, you heard me right – restraining straps. And here’s how the conversation went. A Sunday, around 1:30 p.m. in advance of […]
Dear Blogger-To-Be (A Mama Kat Writing Prompt)
This week, Kat’s writing prompt number five (which random.org “assigned” me) instructed us to write about this: If you were to go back to the moment you decided to start a blog, what ten blogging tips would you share with yourself? I don’t necessarily have ten tips, but there are several things I would do differently. What Should I Call […]
Wordless Wednesday (Universal Bubble Fun Edition)
Thank you, dear Guatemalan people in the Parque Central of Antigua, for relaxing by blowing bubbles! I was out of memory card space by this point, so grabbed this picture with my disposable camera: and played around with it a bit on Picnik to come up with this: Bubbles are fun, language barrier or no! I […]
Algo Nuevo (Something New – a #Reverb11 Prompt)
What new thing will you try this month? When I first read July’s Let’s Reverb prompt (“What new thing will you try this month?), I knew I would wait and write to this prompt after my Guatemala trip. What better than your first international trip to discover many new things to try? Most of my writing […]
half a life review
As I mentioned to you on Twitter this morning, I wasn’t sure why I had received an ARC in the mail but I’m never one to turn down a book! This book was well written and there was no time when I did not feel that I had a clear sense of what the author […]
Hands Free (A Mama Kat Writing Workshop Prompt)
This week, Kat’s writing prompt number one (which random.org “assigned” me) instructed us to write about “A moment you realized your child was growing up.” In deference to the slew of “to do’s” that await me in the wake of two weeks of vacation, I am going the six word memoir route for this post. My daughter (the one who just got her learner’s permit […]