Rankins (The Magician – Chapter Eight)

This is the eighth chapter of the serialization novel I am working on, The Magician – < click there to read the other chapters if you missed them. Rankins Ophelia Rankin Stoneburner was beaming at the two women as they came up the front porch stairs.  She stepped forward and greeted them both with hugs […]

Setbacks

This past week, I suffered a blow to the goals I had set up for the month of October. I had made plans to walk at least a mile every single day of the month and that goal has already been setback unintentionally. I came down with a head cold. It’s amazing how a simple […]

Persist

Anyone who knows me knows that I wear several bracelets. It’s something I started doing a few years ago, mainly because I wanted to express myself, but also because some have words I wanted to focus on. I’ve mentioned them in a few blogs posts here as well. One of the words I have on […]

Halloween Town: The Newest Residents

This is a story about my Halloween Town. I used to put a description of the origins of my villages on every post about my villages, but since I have a whole created page about the Village Stories I have written, Check it out there if you have no idea what my Halloween Town is. […]

Where There is Love

Anyone who pays attention to the news will tell you that there is so much in the way of hatred in our world today. Look at the way invasions, mass shootings, book ban parties, even comments on social media accounts are perversive. We make rules against love. We tell people they cannot love others because […]

Allium (The Magician – Chapter Seven)

This is the seventh chapter of the serialization novel I am working on, The Magician – < click there to read the other chapters if you missed them. Allium It would not do to ruminate on a long-missing family member, Vanessa thought as she stared off into the distance through her window on the train. […]

Miles and Miles

My late friend Margo was known for walking upwards of seven miles a day, no matter if it were raining, snowing, or if the sun was shining brightly. And while I can get upwards of 24,000 steps in a day with the full time job, I still feel as if I pale in comparison. I […]

Be Fruity

“By contrast, the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against such things.” ~ Galatians 5:22-23 (New Revised Standard Version, Updated Edition) Every time I hear the above passage, I think of a song the little kids used to sing at the church I […]

Pass The Baton – September 2023

Marla, from Marla’s World, has created a writing challenge. The challenge is for multiple authors to write a single story. She will choose a story that she has written, or that another author has submitted for this challenge, and she will nominate the next person to continue writing it. Once that person has added their […]