My special needs son, Daniel, lived at home with us till just after his 22nd birthday. He was 22 physically but mentally about the age of one. That meant that he was still in diapers and we still spoon fed him all his meals and snacks. I love Daniel so much. He is one of […]
Walk into any Hallmark store and what do you see? Aisles of cards ….and shelves of collectables. Shelves of things that have no other purpose than to look nice in someone’s home. Now don’t get me wrong, as an artist I value beauty, and as is obvious this spring in Upstate South Carolina, so does […]
I missed art class this week…was just too tired to go…if I could have gotten there I would have been energized by the creativity and the creative spirits I share the room with…. I went to a two hour sculpture class once. We chose a small chunk of stone…mine was green and about the size and shape of a […]
As part of my teacher induction I was assigned the job of writing a poem about time. It was a kind of “fill in the blanks” poem that went something like this: Time is_______________________ Time sounds like_____________________ Time feels like___________________ etc. Here is what I cam up with: Time Time is invisible. It sounds like […]
My youngest child is adopted. She has known all her life that we adopted her and I told her, honestly, that I believed her birthmother loved her with all her heart. There are several reasons why I believe that, one of them being that I can’t imagine how much courage it took for her to […]
They say you aren’t a real writer till you can paper a room with rejections. I have been submitting manuscripts since 1990 and I could probably paper my entire house by now. I have been fortunate, I know. I have had the wonderful thrill and privilege of seeing some of my stuff in print, but […]
Saturday I went out in my Kayak again. Many times this year, even in winter, I have been fortunate to catch a glimpse of some of the local wildlife. I have seen a Great Blue Heron, an Osprey, a Kingfisher, a beaver, several turtles, a sea gull and a drunk skinny dipper (just kidding:). Saturday was particularly windy so […]
Robin Prince Monroe 