Reformed

Reformed

by | Dec 9, 2015 | Uncategorized

There’s little worse than being cornered into conversing with a reformed _________. Insert your own term from this list, please: alcoholic, sinner, fatty, cigarette smoker, slut… (or tell me your own in a comment) If ever there was a toxic talker,...
No salad course, of course

No salad course, of course

by | Dec 2, 2015 | Uncategorized

DRINKING: because no great story ever started with someone eating a salad. The provocative phrase, written on a cocktail napkin of vibrant blue hue, drew a laugh and my quick purchase at a local gift shop. It’s evoked many a laugh since, as we shared among...
Grant Boys

Grant Boys

by | Nov 30, 2015 | Uncategorized

I’m sitting here – amusing the muse – in my new Levi’s 5 pocket jeans, feeling well-dressed and sassy because I achieved the basic female criteria for new clothes: they look good they feel good I got a good deal my husband took me shopping and...
Past as Prologue: Iowa Writers approve

Past as Prologue: Iowa Writers approve

by | Nov 24, 2015 | Uncategorized

I know them well; watched them grow up alongside me. Grow up, grow gray, grow weary—all hastened by escapades between those commas. Jackie and Steve Breeden live on a small farm, the vintage dream of the American Midwest. The vast fields surrounding their home have...
Life as a Miracle: Seven Turns

Life as a Miracle: Seven Turns

by | Nov 18, 2015 | Uncategorized

We’ve returned from a visit with forty-year friends, a couple with whom we ‘co-courted’. Courting seems a quaint term, perhaps, but applies because we were all beyond ‘dating’ and, well, date is a calendared term linked to age…...