Finish Each Day and be Done with It

Finish Each Day and be Done with It

  “Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with...
The Pickup Truck

The Pickup Truck

My grandparents lived ‘up der in da Nort’ where more pickups dotted the landscape than the corn. At the ripe old age of ten, and from my four-foot-eleven perspective, the only thing more disturbing than those old, dirty, smoking, noisy pickups, was the old, dirty,...
I Have it Today  Sometime in 2009

I Have it Today
Sometime in 2009

I pulled the hair out of my brush and immediately got that heavy feeling in my gut. I moved as close to the mirror as I could and poked around different places on my scalp. The vitamins I was taking were not working. Although I didn’t have any bald spots, it was easy...
The Woman with the Widow’s Hump

The Woman with the Widow’s Hump

I saw her from a distance and a smile quickly swept across my face. She was conversing with the produce man, and I could tell he was enjoying her. She was adorable. Barely peeking over the front of her cart, a bright yellow cardigan covered up her prominent widow’s...
I Won a Contest!

I Won a Contest!

My husband and my soon-to-be daughter-in-law gifted me a subscription to Scribbler for Christmas. I love it. They have monthly contests, and the one for February was a romantic scene. It is way out of my element to writing romance, but I decided to go for it. I took a...