Weekly Photo Challenge: Escape – A State of Mind

Escape. Running away from reality. Forgetting everything. Shutting the door. Clearing your mind and changing your surroundings. None of that is needed. For me anyways. Escape …it’s a frame of mind....

Weekly Photo Challenge: The Many Patterns of Mexico

Oopsie daisy! This first mosaic was created when I went with textures for a prompt… How the heck could I have done that mistake? Not sure, but below is a more direct collection of images for...

A Mad Dash and a Sprinkle

“I quit!” just as she was stomping back to her office, Rose heard her mother’s voice whispering to her to not ever slam doors. “A slammed door is always so hard to open Rose.“ She fought the tears...

Rosemary Has a Change of Plans

With a hop, a skip and a jump Rosemary clears the three steps to her front porch. She opens the screen door and holds it against her left hip. Her back screams in pain as she bends forward leaning...

Weekly Photo Challenge: From Above – MY WORLD

“From Above. Change your perspective on something. Share a photo of a subject which you shot from directly above.” This is a view into mine own own world – my home from up above as high as I can...

A talk with Picasso…

Can I Love Your Art If You’re a Rapist?

WordPress Daily Prompt: Art Appreciation Do you need to agree with an artist’s lifestyle or politics to appreciate their art? To spend money on it? In order to truly love art do you need to know...

Weekly Photo Challenge: Culture – Urban Art

Museums and galleries were being frequented by schools and not by the public at large. So they decided to drag that mountain out to Mohammed – and bring the arts and the culture to the people by...

Weekly Photo Challenge: Up

Definition of a spinnaker by the good people at Wikipedia: A spinnaker is a special type of sail that is designed specifically for sailing off the wind from a reaching course to a downwind, i.e....

A Chosen Blanket

A handmade quilt my mother made for me. Although she stopped hiding her grays years ago, denial would forever be her chosen blanket. She loved to slam down on the tight skin of her drum with her...

What Else Is New?

It depends on who wants to know… This week I submitted my first entry in the Weekly Photo Challenge. I’ve been thoroughly enjoying looking at the hundreds and hundreds of submitted posts. I give...

Make a Wish

I stare at the candle, torn between two wishes: simply choose happiness or being recruited by Cirque du Soleil? Just as I was wishing I could make up my mind the flame died… WORD COUNT: 33...

Weekly Photo Challenge: Change

The sun rising on our crossing of the Sea of Cortez Change. It’s inevitable. Everyday brings new hope. Hope for change. Hope for something new or different. A job. A child. Or even something as...

Twitch

I am Ally Baba Ally screamed with delight when she saw me walk in. She dropped everything, ran for me, jumped in my arms and nearly knocked the wind out of me. “You’re getting too big to do this...

Smile: A 33-Word Advice from The Ignorant One

I am the queen of naive art – they reflect my personality best. ………………………………………………………………………….. This is a Trifecta Writing Challenge Prompt: We want you to give us thirty-three words of advice. Your...

Word Toss

Reblogged from I AM: I threw the white towel in -to a load of dark souls. I ignored the warning labels boldly throwing caution into the wind. I’m just an evil Kenievel of the self-serving automatic...

BoomBoom!

Boomboomboomboom-boom-boom-boomboomboom. Bobby helped Lisa step out of her kayak as the waves pushed it against the beach and pulled it back out again. Back and forth, back and forth, their kayaks...

Bread in the Oven – The Power of Smell

Little did I know… That one day I’d be living in a place where it would be easier to make bread than to go out to the store and buy a loaf! True story. Right now this place smells like a bakery. On...

Can’t Get What You Want

The sunrise on a 2-day crossing You can’t get what you want, unless you know what you want… I’ve rarely heard anything that rang truer than those words. It’s so basic and elementary. Figure out...

*Fraud Alert*

My board’s known nothing but calm waters… I’ve had the nagging feeling of being a fraud lately. I think it’s the offer of being interviewed for O Magazine that triggered it. (Side note: I wrote an...

Whales in the Hood

At the fuel dock where we picked up our friend, I was elegantly dressed in typical fuel dock attire: shorts and a bikini top. Which is a lie of course only on account that I’m too ashamed to admit...

Tommy Turns Ten

This was actually my wedding cake! From my 1st marriage… Tommy woke to the happy sound of birds chirping. He threw the blankets off and ran to his window jumping over his Battleships still open...

Randomly Something

It’s like we’re always moving! Living on a boat, everything is or will get damp. One day we’ll figure out where all this moisture is coming from and put an end to it. Zippers don’t live long. They...

Vultures of Change

We slept in what had once been the gymnasium. With the sliding divider pulled out, one side held the infirmary, the other a makeshift chapel. Where we once went for keeping our bodies in excellent...

The Vid That Never Happened

Lee has his annual physical this morning. Me being alone in the apartment is something that NEVER happens. Ever. This is what I had planned… Have you seen Allie Brosh (from Hyperbole and a Half) do...

Pipe Dream

By the time I was 16 I had a very simple goal. All my decisions and choices were based on this one goal: I wanted my entire life to be like working at a summer camp. I was 16 after all, I had no...

Today I’m Five

Today I’m five. I will make mistakes that I will without a doubt repeat. Over and over. Again and again. I will learn one painful repeated error at a time. I will be tempted to tattoo myself with...

Tall Glass

“Barkeep, I’ll have a Ginger & Malibu please in a tall glass. Something dainty like me.” The bartender looked up. Didn’t react in any way, and resumed washing the glasses to the sound of the...

On Living, Fighting & Thriving

I’m thrilled to present a guest blogger. Meet Courtney, aka BeePea. She is bipolar. She is fighting so many battles and appears to be winning them. When I first started reading her, I had always...