Communication and Writing – Page 2

The Omen of Spring’s Eve

The dead of winter is upon us, The bare trees and bare roads. The asphalt hidden by farms of snow, The sky aged like charred goads. Six weeks of this winter behind us, Six somber weeks to go. Six degree temperatures above or, Six cold degrees below. Mother, why do you inhibit us? Make life […]

Wake Up

Wake up, brush your teeth, go to work and smile. Drive home, eat your dinner and watch TV for a while. Read a book, go to sleep, snooze and sneeze. Wake up and do it again; it feels like a disease. Take a moment. Think hard. What do you want to do? Scream? Shout? Shriek? […]

Writing with a Purpose

If you’ve been following my blog for the past week, you’re aware that I’m doing the Your Turn Challenge. Before six days ago, I hadn’t blogged in three weeks. I started blogging in July 2013: a year and a half ago. In that year and a half, I wrote and published 25 posts, including this […]

My Seashell Surprise

Every time I visit a beach, I pick up seashells. For years, I picked up seashells without having a clue what to do with them. It was an activity to do at the beach. And when I went home, the shells sat in the plastic bag that I put them in; they no longer had […]

Stuck?

Windex was the answer. Freaking Windex! Last year I got engaged. On Easter Sunday, after an 18 mile training run, my fiancé Jonathan got down on one knee and proposed. “Oh my gosh,” I said, in shock. I had been completely oblivious to the signs. “Yes,” I exclaimed. He put the pear-shaped diamond, his mother’s, […]