Monthly Archives: August 2009

Of all the things I’d miss when I go, I’d miss you the most… Today’s assignment:  Tell me what you will miss when you die. I will miss coffee.  Coffee with lots of sugar and cream.  I will miss frightfully … Continue reading →

Today’s blog will be a personal one as my assignment from Old Friend from Far Away instructs me to write about the things I am afraid to write.  It also suggests that I find a good hiding place for the notebook … Continue reading →

Tonight I am being tested.  My new writing buddy, Old Friend from Far Away, has given me a series of questions/topics & I am to write for 2-3 minutes on each.   A quick personal update first, though.  I don’t want … Continue reading →

First: please check this out  I hope it touches you and inspires you the way it just did for me.  Honestly moved me to tears!  What a powerful video! Today’s assignment:  I remember I remember my mind was whirling.  I sat … Continue reading →

Old Friend from Far Away–Natalie Goldberg.  Welcome, my new buddy.  I have decided to aid my new journey with a writing tool.  This book is for the practice of writing a memoir.  It gives me little assignments to help me … Continue reading →

i highlighted my hair with red. it’s very different and funky. i like it. i’m cold & not feeling well.   i’d like to curl up in bed and watch tv til I fall asleep. maybe i’ll do that in … Continue reading →

FIVE OF MY FAVORITE CHARLESTON THINGS! 1. Going over the Cooper River Bridge for the first time welcoming us into our crazy vacation that lies ahead. 2. Joseph’s Breakfasts.  They have sweet potato pancakes.  Enough said :) 3. Groucho’s lunches! … Continue reading →

The Miserable Love Life Again, a crucial ingredient for the formation of a novelist – romantic humiliation and heartbreak. The unhappy childhood gives you the tools of observation. Unrequited crushes, romantic despair, a few memorable break-ups, will give you something … Continue reading →

Love knows no limit to it’s endurance, no end to it’s trust, no fading of it’s hope;  it can outlast anything.   Love still stands when all else has fallen. -Unknown I’m blessed to have this quote mean so much … Continue reading →

So tonight I have decided to partake in some good old fashioned let loose kind of fun. Doesn’t everyone need that every once in a while? Sometimes it’s so easy to get caught up in the monotony of the day … Continue reading →