It’s Just a Routine – Six Sentence Story

I had my list of the items I needed to get at the bakery/deli for dinner along with some empty cans to take back to the beer store, a prescription that needed filling, and Al added a six-pack of Pepsi to the list and we needed tomatoes. There wasn’t the usual traffic that I was

Liberty

The following is written for a challenge over at Fandango’s called Fandango’s February Expression #22. You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drink Your assignment, should you choose to accept it, will be to post a story, a poem, an image, an interpretation of what the expression means to you,

A Woman’s Place is in the Home #FFE

A woman’s place is in the home, or a woman’s place is in the kitchen reminds me of a story my father told me long ago. He was in the Canadian Navy and was in Scotland during WWII. He’d just met a young woman and she’d taken him home to meet her parents. After the

How Much Farther

This was written for today’s FOWC With Fandango or Fandango’s One Word Challenge. Today’s word is “MAP”.  My dad and I were traveling from Montreal to Los Angeles and I was the map reader. This was many years ago. When I think back now about it I have to laugh. Dad would ask how much

A Lucky Day

I’m feeling lucky today so let’s go to the casino. Nah, I never win, and my horoscope says my money is low, but you can go, I don’t mind staying home. Just for half an hour, come with me and I’ll buy you a beer. We went and a slot machine had my attention, so

Follow Your Dreams

Available on Amazon   She longed to write poetry ever since she was three determined to be a writer was her dream you see. At six she decided she’d write a book one day then someone told her she should write a play. In school, she took a class all about Poe and had to

Catch and Release

This was written for Six Sentence Story over at Denise’s. Liberty, an Irish Setter, was a beautiful, well behaved, dog that my mom and dad had rescued back in the late ’70s. She was funny as when we’d go for car rides, she wouldn’t do her business anywhere other than in our backyard. It didn’t