rose

rose is amazing cause she kool sooo yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  -love rose 😉

flash fiction friday – from madison woods

every friday, http://madisonwoods.wordpress.com/ posts a picture prompt to challenge writers to create a 100-word “story.”  i’m going to try to keep up with this, as should you.  after you post your story, you go to her page and paste a link to your post in the comment box for that week’s picture.  give it a shot.  what…

– the tire swing

i was on another blog site, http://kellieelmore.com/, and saw a picture prompt inviting people to make up a story.  so i did.  here’s the picture, a book cover, and my story… Two children hid in the tall grass behind a very old house as an elderly couple slowly managed the front steps and shuffled to…

– the “masters”

If I want to get a bunch of writers together, and only writer who like baseball to talk about and write baseball stories, am I allowed to do that?  Football fans can start their own group, right? If I were female, and I wanted to organize a bunch of female motorcyclists to ride together, only…

“the big bam” by leigh montville

In further honor of baseball’s 2012 season, and in hopes of another Yankee world series win, I’m re-posting another baseball book review.  This one’s about the man who single-handedly saved baseball when it was about ready to disappear and was considered a failure. As previously stated in another book review, I love baseball and the Yankees.…

“the long ball” by tom adelman

in honor of opening day, i’m re-posting a review of a great baseball book.  lots of non-caps in here. I love baseball. I love watching baseball. I love listening to baseball on the radio. I love being at a game. I love playing catch with one of my kids or even myself, just throwing it…

– role models

I’m almost 50, and it wasn’t until about a year ago that I realized something very important:  I have a role model.  I have someone I’ve been emulating for, I don’t know, maybe about 35 years.  As I look back on most of my 49+ years, it should have been obvious all along.  And I…

– kid older

when my kid went to pre-school, she screamed for two weeks. they said she’d never get through kindergarten.when she got to 1st grade, they wanted to move her up to 3rd grade. i said, “no. i just want her to get the regular stuff. i’ll handle the extras.” all i wanted was for her to have friends…