Monthly Archives: April 2018

Day Thirty, NaPoWriMo

It’s good to jot down words: a line of conversation, two words or three that appear on the windshield during the drive to work good to capture them in the dailyness of life snatching them from wherever words and ideas … Continue reading

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Day Twenty-nine, NaPoWriMo

I can tell I’ve been listening to the lays of Bilbo. Here, small works, the labor of the world, are known, that day by day we hurry through both chores and song and lightly running pass down one path then … Continue reading

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Day 28, NaPoWriMo

I’m off topic from my own prompts today… So alike, mother and daughter, that as the mother scolds her for sins of inattention and fidgeting and whining and perhaps a tantrumI I can easily imagine the little girl, using the … Continue reading

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Day Twenty-seven, NaPoWriMo

Jumped? No. Not at all. Falling? Not exactly. Allowed myself to fall? Gave myself willingly to the spring surge, the tidal pull? More than likely. Look the wrong way and it plows down and sweeps you away unexpected. Not necessarily … Continue reading

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Day Twenty-six, NaPoWriMo

Those sitting with hills brushing their hair with wind having a cloud ceiling. These are the folk, trusted and thought to be brave facing the dangers they find and ignoring the phantoms. The birds bring them news and the seasons, … Continue reading

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