Time is invisible. It sounds like rushing water or a gusty breeze. It feels like getting pushed down hill with roller skates on….and sometimes…. if we are lucky, or very determined, it can feel like opening a present on Christmas morning. Time tastes like vanilla ice cream all sweet and cold then melted away and […]
Last week I found a beautiful, whole, sand dollar. It is rare to find a whole one that isn’t alive. More often, I find the green-brown ones that are still living and I toss them as far as I can back into the water. I knew how fragile it was so I carried it gently […]
At low tide the beach where I walk has several pools of water between the shore and the waves. These still pools create a beach walking challenge. If you want to be close to the waves you either have to take your shoes off and wade across the pools, or you have to try to […]
(Image photo shopped by me! because I did learn something from that challenging digital art course 🙂 I just finished working on my computer, taking an online art course, getting to know, and enjoy people who I have never met in person, and most likely never will. I am living in a house where I can […]
After my six year old daughter died of leukemia I thought I wasn’t going to be able to live through the pain. And I wrestled with God. I screamed at Him. But deep down I knew that even if He had come Himself, and sat down beside me to explain to me why it had […]
When I finished Gasparilla’s Treasure. I could tell that something wasn’t just right. I knew there was more to the story so I decided to do in depth character studies. Just yesterday I found my research notebook. I had written several pages about each character, things like their favorite color, their fears, their most embarrassing […]
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Inspired by the friendship between my oldest son and his best buddy at the time, “Silent Glades” started out as a treasure hunt story that took place near my hometown, Tampa. It was then titled “Gasparilla’s Treasure”.
You Decide From the moment we wake up till the very second we lay our heads on our pillows at night, our days are made up of a string of decisions, one after another. From simple ones, like what to wear that day, to deeper more meaningful choices like how we to respond to the […]
Where is Joy, Mama? She is dancing in the wind. She is sparkling in the sunshine. She is laughing in your friend. She is playing in your smile and Splashing on the shore. She is singing with the birds and Opening up a door. And on the grayer days she is napping quietly under blankets […]
When Sadie, our Golden Retriever, came to live with us it was because we had tried everything else. Despite our efforts and that of medical science our ten-year-old son, Daniel, hadn’t been able to gain any weight since he was three. In fact, he was so medically fragile that he couldn’t attend school. Daniel […]
Madeleine L’Engle is my writing hero. In honor of her I am going to post here a few quotes from her book, “Walking On Water”, the most incredible book I have ever read on art and writing. From pg. 18, Walking on Water: Obedience is an unpopular word nowadays, but the artist must be obedient to […]
If you look closely at this picture, right there with her little head on my foot, is my pug Lucy when she was a tiny puppy. I remember that day. It was a writing day, the one day that I had set aside each week to work furiously on whatever writing project was before me. My […]
Laundry, Chute! A shrill alarm sounds in the hall, then still and quietness. I rush toward the siren call, to rescue my red dress. The latch released, I close my eyes then lunge into the dark, to free the poly-cottons from the hot breath of the shark. I dump them on the […]
After our golden retriever, Sadie, died I felt lost. I hadn’t realized how much I had depended on her steady, unconditional love to get me through the craziness of my life. She was always there at the end of my days quietly loving me, ready to snuggle me on my bad days and ready to […]
Robin Prince Monroe 