by me | Jun 12, 2022 | contests, Environment, Humor, writing, writing for children
I reworked an earlier piece for the new #KidLitVibes contest run by a very engaged and generous PB critique group. I spun the wheel and got lucky, literally, as my word. I wasn’t going to enter as nothing had occurred to me, until I went for an evening stroll...
by me | Oct 3, 2021 | Holidays, Humor, writing, writing for children
So Lydia Lukidis and Kaitlyn Sanchez are at it again with their Fall Writing Frenzy contest for children’s writers. Pick a photo from their stash and get inspired to write something somehow related that’s under 200 words. The above is not that...
by me | Mar 2, 2021 | city living, current events, Humor, Memoir, Quirky Richmond, Richmond VA, Uncategorized, writing
Been volunteering with the Medical Reserve Corps in Virginia for a month or so and I have developed a specialty in parking lot management. Until I’m fully vaccinated I’m happier working outside anyway and it has been an upper seeing happy and relieved...
by me | Apr 24, 2014 | business, city living, current events, food, Humor, Quirky Richmond, REAL RICHMOND, Richmond VA, Travel, writing, writing for children
I don’t pretend to be a food writer though I have tweeted more than 12,000 times and most have involved either putting food or my foot in my mouth or putting words together halfway wittily which is different from half-witted. Then there’s my...
by me | Apr 3, 2014 | current non-events, Family, food, Holidays, Humor
I’m not sure if I will rate more or less of that once this gets posted. In my refrigerator when I first wrote this were way too many house made Sour Watermelon Gummy Bears. I had very little to do with the making of them and even less to do with the eating...
by me | Feb 19, 2014 | city living, current events, Family, Humor
One of the perks of having one’s mother move in with one is to have it confirmed–by the movers at least–that though my birth order makes me the third, in fact, I’m #1. Swear on my mother’s storage unit that this is what came out of the...
