Daily Prompt: Turn, Turn, Turn (to Life)
In Los Angeles seasons basically vary from warm to warmer to slightly less warm to warm again. Which is to say, they are subtle. It can actually be challenging to notice the passage of time because...
View ArticleThe Ghost of LA Woman
What’s lurking in the drafts section of your dashboard? I couldn’t resist today’s Daily Post because I only had one draft post, which was just a title: LA Woman. The idea came to me a couple of months...
View ArticleDaily Prompt: An Unlikely Friendship
A while back I blogged about my mother-in-law. Today’s post is about my father-in-law, Ray. He is my late husband’s father, and like Kaz and my own father, is African American. Unlike Kaz, my father...
View ArticleWords To Remember: Lights, Camera, Action!
Ironic that today’s Daily Post is about filmmaking. If you were involved in a movie, would you rather be the director, the producer, or the lead performer? (Note: you can’t be the writer!). I actually...
View ArticleA Life Worth Living (Daily Prompt)
Yesterday, I ran into a colleague and fellow writer in the hallway at work. “I gotta get outta here,” he said, shaking his head, “THIS year.” “Me too,” I responded and raised my right hand. We...
View ArticleSome Enchanted Evening (day 2/30)
All of us, at one point or another, have asked our parents how they met. This story is based on what my mother told me… July, 1958. My mother was a 22 year old student at the Cleveland Institute of...
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