Hold The Best Stories

In Your Family Tree Here is a Great Writing Prompt! There are rich stories found in family trees! You don’t know what your ancestors past was all about until you dig around and ask questions. Talk to your parents, grandparents and you might be surprised how much they remember and how much they want to…

Reading Challenge

Surviving & Growing Strong We have smart and creative grandkids that love to read and write. One of our grandsons always has a book in his hand. He reads in the car, bed, school, outside on our farm, and even with the family all around laughing and talking. He presented me with a Reading Challenge!…

Valentine’s Day February 14, 2023

💋 Showing Love 💋 A Beautiful Writing Prompt Showing love on Valentine’s Day February 14, 2023 is made easier with Valentine Cards, Valentine Heart Balloons, Valentine Flowers wrapped in pink tissue, but how do you show love every day? Loving yourself makes it much easier to show love to others! Love you, love who you…

Blue Fairy

HAD I IMAGINED? Check Out My Writing prompts! Walking in the tall field grass, light blue beings fluttered up, startled by my presence. Could they not hear my footfall? Papery blue faces with dark black eyes fluttered swiftly on wings of glistening blue. Delicate slender long legs pushing off a blade of dark green grass!…

February 2, 2023: A Writing Prompt

You can take off writing from the words on the card. Create your own story from the figure on the card and the woods. Write a dark evil story, poem or a creative few paragraphs!

Writing To Sell

TO PLEASE ANOTHER Our writings might just be special to one person or touch many if we write from our heart! Did Louisa May Alcott write Little Women to please her publisher? On reading just a few lines from Louisa’s journal, Louisa believes Little Women to be boring. She has lived the life she writes,…

Writing Space-Where Do You Write?

Writing space. Where do you write? Have you made a little closet office or took over a spare room in the house to have privacy to expand on your thoughts? My two desks, shelves and whiteboard are situated in our large country life family room. There are windows all around to look out each day…

CHASING A SHADOW

Will I Find You Will I Find You is a poem from The Death Owl that I wrote to escape a nightmare. When you lose someone you love, you try to find your way. Sometimes your mind might try to help. Even though it does not seem like help, I believe it is. The nightmare,…

The Death Owl Has Arrived

In Book Form That Is! Beyond Happy! Yes, I did start to cry when I saw the box arrive with my first poem book, The Death Owl. I had to wait a few hours to open the box. My husband was at work and I wanted him and my mom to be present when I…

Who Made You Smile?

Donna Jean Tears and scars, fear and pain. When writing about a child’s abusive life you feel their sorrow so deep inside your heart. Anger fills your soul. Out of the blue the pain can resurface. Feelings of not belonging, not being loved haunt her. This is a photo that is precious. A rare smile….