From Speck to Star – Guest Artist: You! – 400 words
This writing was inspired by a friend’s artwork.
It is not mine to share with you.
If you paint/sketch/art, I would love to see what images it inspires for... Read more.
The World I Dream About (<90 min) – 400 words
The sky will not always be blue. It will light up at sunset into a masterpiece night at after night in the brightest colors that artists will never recreate. It... Read more.
Swings, stings and skinned knees- (<90 min art class)400 words
A little helicopter pod spins and twirls and flutters like a honeybee. Thrown in the air again and again by tiny fingers learning about air and motion and life and... Read more.
Just Words- 400 words
Butterflies, sunshine, rainbows, Red raspberries, strawberries, cherries, lipstick A fat red lip can change a girl. Make her braver Make her taller. Orange... Read more.
The Clock Ticks – 400 words
The clock ticks, clicks, Tick click Click tick And spins a golden dance Its own fair Scrambler under a glass dome. Through generations it is passed. Marking... Read more.
Water – 400 words
In a bowl, blown clean enough, I am now contained. Waiting for the stones, Waiting to wash the worries and burdens away from women who need miracles who... Read more.
It was a Saturday. – 400 words
(pay no attention to it being Sunday) We sit on the porch every Saturday. PopPop brings out his lawn chair every morning where he holds court til supper. Nana... Read more.
Birthdays. – 400 words
Birthdays. 1950 June The house wasn’t much to look at yet. The clapboard sat where one day a driveway would hold Buicks and Fords. The great oaks that would drop... Read more.
A dark and stormy night – 400 words
It was a dark and stormy night, It was a dark and stormy night, but, you know, it wasn’t that dark, nor was it stormy. It was a night like any other in truth,... Read more.