Closed for the day. What Did I Accomplish Today to Be a Writer? I pre-posted this, in recognition of my day off, but it's likely I did Day 259 of the 100 Words a Day Writing Challenge 2024...

Today was a day of mostly getting organized around my house. I do think it helps me function better, if I only do "the writer thing" five days a week, then fiddle around the house for one, and...

It's 11:54 p.m. I'm wishing I'd written this sooner, but things didn't go according to plan (at least not the one I'd made in my head). What Did I Accomplish Today to Be a Writer? I did...

I spent most of today preparing to finish my audiobook and setting up a gallery on my website to go with it. It's 8:21 p.m., so I'm making myself come to a stopping point, but today was a...

It's been twenty-three years since September 11th became the name of a tragedy, instead of just a date on the calendar. I can still remember hearing about a plane crash. I was driving my dad's...

I'm still trying to get the hang of recording my work and becoming more comfortable sharing it publicly. Well, maybe not comfortable; but quite a bit less scared. This is a poem that I wrote for...

When I started this website and began uploading images to my posts, I was told, "Don't worry about that box that says "Alt Text for Image", it doesn't matter; but I have since learned that it does...

I'm hoping in the near future to share the process of purchasing and converting a cargo trailer into a tiny house, which I will probably use as a writing studio in the near future. I absolutely...

My grandparents' barn was built in Indiana in 1861, the year the United States went to war against itself. This picture shows my grandparents' barn long before they dreamed of buying it. When I...

Thank you for coming to visit my site. This is a poem I wrote during a particularly difficult season of great discouragement. I hope that it blesses you and offers comfort in some...

I decided to post this poem on YouTube. I pray it is a blessing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgPgeZT9SVU&t=5s I miss her; but I'm so thankful she's no longer suffering. For Our...

In my last episode, I told you about my dad’s announcement, back in March of 2023:  He’d determined that once my mom died, he’d sell the house they’d bought together forty-eight years...

Episode One in the Saga of The Cruise that Left a Bruise - The Backstory... I believe it was March 18th of last year that my dad told me he planned to take a trip around the world.  I had...

Despite the advent of Artificial Intelligence, there are many people who love to write and don't want that skill taken away by the likes of Chat GPT. For many of us, turning to AI as a writing...

A lot of people in the literary industry are concerned that Artificial Intelligence will replace real writers in all realms of writing; but storytelling may be an exception to that, at least for...

When I first heard of Chat GPT, I wondered if it would be bias toward one view or another on any given topic; but I soon found out that at this point in history (June 24th, 2023), the artificial...

Yesterday, in my writing class, someone was talking about how their humiliating moments have made for some of their best content. What came to my mind immediately was my infamous "I Can't...

“Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.”- Napoleon Hill Finishing the first draft of a short story or a manuscript is a strange, almost otherworldly sensation,...

Facing the Challenge of Getting More Done in a Day as a Writer Writing is a creative endeavor; but to make it a realistic achievement (or career), efficiency is a key component. We each have...

My uncle Danny used to say, "I like to get up early and enjoy the day before everybody else gets up and ruins it." I can still remember steam streaking down his dining room windows, and how the...

Hope floats. Or so I've heard. I don't think I've ever seen the movie; but this morning that title is in my head. Hope floats. 'So do dead bodies,' my heart responds. 'And garbage. ...

1. Set a Timer and Sit Down to Write It is easy for me to spend an hour in my head, listing the reasons I don't have time to write. I'm trying to get in the habit of setting aside at least one...

*Editor's note: I think this should be "Writing Every Day"; but I don't want to mess up my backlink. Besides, I'm talking about everyday writing, so maybe I had it right in the first...

Some things to consider before you brand your face, business, or book... Branding, Clickbait, or a Sincere Question? 6/29/2023 I'm thinking there will be three reasons people would click...

June 27th, 2023 Warning - I'm purposefully not editing this post (even though I just went back and respelled warning)... I just set my timer for fifty-nine minutes, determined to sit down and...

June 23rd, 2023 - Post #89 Yesterday, when I posted about my tiny house trailer build, I told you I'd like to share a video I took of the Friends Cemetery, where my mom is buried. It's such a...

June 14th, 2023 I still don't talk to "Siri" or "Alexa", so when I heard about this "Chad" guy, I didn't think much about it; until somebody started to explain that "he" can write anything in...

June 7th, 2023 - Post #87 I have finally opened my computer for the first time in I don't know how many days. I came across this post from a month and a day ago that I didn't finish. It is still...

May 3rd, 2023 - Post #76 I'm sitting here with my mom, listening to the rhythmic sound of her oxygen machine as it hums and puffs. She hasn't wanted it in a long time; but her hands were gray...

In my last post, I shared the dilemma I've faced in knowing how much to say about my mom's dementia. I wonder how many people noticed that when I first published this page, I accidentally had the...

April 25th, 2023 - Post #74 Am I dishonoring my mom to share about her memory loss? That is a question I have been struggling with for the last few years, as I have seen my mom's memory...

April 20th, 2023 - Post #73 If you read the last post, you know we could have probably used a flashlight while prepping for a possible tornado. For a while, my mom's flashlight was continually...

January 12th, 2023 - Post #64 My mom and her puppy. The other day, she said something like, "Well, this isn't my dog - this one looks old!" Between the reaction to the videos I posted of my...

July 31, 2021 - Post #1 Everything was about to change Just Before the Storm A week ago today I was driving up to a friend’s lake cottage in Indiana and was astonished at how brilliant the...

I am not a shopper, but most of today was spent doing errands, which is typically something I stringently try to avoid. It's shocking to me to see how much prices are going up. I wonder what is...