dailyprompt
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There is something deeply human about finishing a book, closing the cover, and still feeling the story moving around inside us. Sometimes we are satisfied. Sometimes we are unsettled. And sometimes, if we are honest, we sit there quietly wishing the ending had gone another way. That feeling raises a question I have been turning…
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I have often been told I am a dreamer, and honestly, I cannot deny the charge. If dreaming were a minor offense, I would be guilty with glitter on my hands and clouds in my pockets. I have always had what some might call a dreamy outlook on life—part imagination, part wonder, part “look at…
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Rambling on about moving forward, even when forward looks suspiciously like a three-ring circus and everyone and everything needs you at once… At some point, usually when we are feeling brave, well-rested, or standing in front of a mirror with dramatic lighting, we make promises to ourselves. Sometimes the promises come in the chaos and…
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If I could have dinner with any fictional character, I would absolutely choose Jessica Fletcher from Murder, She Wrote. Not a superhero. Not a wizard. Not someone with a dragon or a secret kingdom. Give me J.B. Fletcher, mystery writer, world traveler, Cabot Cove icon, and the woman most likely to solve a murder before…
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A love letter to home, independence, birdseed, and the little inventions that keep a body going… I suppose when you reach a certain age, you ought to have purchased more than one thing that turned out to be a blessing. If you have lived long enough, moved enough, learned enough, and maybe limped through a…
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Because apparently listening has become a competitive sport, and most of us forgot to train, and some of us don’t know how to laugh… Misunderstandings are one of those universal life experiences, right up there with losing your keys while holding them, walking into a room and forgetting why, and pretending you understood what someone…
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Somewhere along the way, life quietly moved into our phones. Not all at once, of course. It started innocently enough: check the weather, pay a bill, maybe order something you forgot at the store. Then suddenly there we were, living in what I like to call the Deep App State—that mysterious place where bills get…
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Reading has always been a form of travel for me. I can be sitting in my favorite chair, wearing socks that absolutely do not match, and suddenly I am walking cobblestone streets, crossing windswept fields, or standing at the edge of some ancient cliff with my imagination doing all the heavy lifting. Books do that.…
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If I could erase one trend from history, I would need a minute. Maybe more than a minute. I would need coffee, a quiet room, and probably a warning label that says, “Do not open this list unless you are ready to be mad.” There is so much to choose from: slavery, colonial violence, nuclear…
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I have lived through enough technology “upgrades” to know that progress is both a miracle and a menace. It gives us maps in our pockets, cameras in our phones, and music on command. It also gives us passwords we forget, chargers we lose, and the strange modern panic of realizing our cell phone battery is…
