• For today’s challenge I choose 2 pictures. This post was written in response to Cee’s Black and White Photo Challenge: Candid Photo Read more

  • Motivation

    Nope, this is not one of those self-help kinda posts. It may also be too early to talk about it, but I just wanted to share that I am finally happy and excited to come to work, after 10 years at the company. Well… the first year was good. Then, the job changed a bit… Read more

  • Photo: Half-Light

    Pink-purple sunset from my backyard. This post was written in response to The Daily Port Weekly Photo Challenge: Half-Light.   Read more

  • Fresh from the oven… Kirkland waterfront on a late afternoon. This post was written in response to Cee’s Black and White Photo Challenge: Take a New Photo. Today I left work a bit earlier than usual, but decided to give the nanny the opportunity to work her regulars hours. So I went for a walk… Read more

  • (from the same tree as 2 Wednesdays ago…) Read more

  • Photo: Dance

    A few years ago, I stopped at a shopping mall with my daughter in our way to her best friend’s birthday party, so she could chose a gift for the other girl. It just so happened that on that day they were having a celebration of the Chinese New year, which included music and dance presentations.… Read more

  • Fiction: The Big Wave

    The sun was shining bright and I watched as the water retracted more than usual at the beach. Then a wave of cool and raging water came down over the village, taking with it everything and everyone it found on its way. Several deaths. Millions in damage. All in a fraction of a second. Nothing… Read more

  • A not-completely-loaded dishwasher….   This post was written in response to Cee’s Black and White Photo Challenge: Kitchen and Dining Room Items   Read more

  • I’m spying on my husband. I don’t feel proud of it, but it may be worth trying. He says the spark is gone. I don’t understand. Not too long ago the intensity of our love was so big and felt like an earthquake every time we were close to each other. Then it’s gone? All… Read more

  • No, this time I’m not showing the things I love. I’m rather showing a picture that I created with the mirroring effect of some phone app a few months ago (they are both my own left hand). I don’t quite remember what led me to create the picture, though. Maybe just that I wanted to… Read more

  • The Artist

    When he was still on diapers, he drew his first squiggly line. A wind blew and a piece of colored yarn flew squiggling past him. As a toddler, he would draw clouds, and the wind would bring some clouds to an otherwise clear sky. As a kid, he would draw cars, and his parents never… Read more

  • “Childe Roland to the dark tower came.” (Robert Browning) So for about a year of my time on my when and where, I followed Roland on the many years on his many whens and wheres. Today our quest came to an end as I finished the last book of The Dark Tower series, by Stephen… Read more

  • This post was written in response to Cee’s Black and White Photo Challenge: Squiggly Lines   Read more

  • Late entry for this week’s Weekly Photo Challenge…       Read more

  • Library

    He lives in the streets. No mom. No dad. Steals food to survive, but doesn’t like it. The other boys are bad. He doesn’t want to be bad. He learns how to read from a homeless sir he befriended. He would read anything and everything. His dream is to attend school. He asks the mailman to give… Read more

  • Mind Her mind started to drift off. Flash She saw flashes of her life. Entry Entering that dreamy state of unconsciousness. Bongo She heard bongos playing somewhere close. Carpet Laying on a carpet of leaves. Swept The winds swept her live away. This post was written in response to the Six on the Sixth Prompt – March 2016,… Read more

  • Arrived ring-less, after not answering phone. This post was written in response to the Sometimes Stellar Storyteller Six Word Story Challenge, with prompt word SUSPICION. This is based on a real story, where the suspicion did not confirm and the subject was not guilt. That was actually me. I lost weight and my wedding ring became too… Read more