‘Tis the eve of All Hallows. Gus embarks on a jaunt
to The Lodge at Devil’s Canyon, his Mummy’s favorite haunt.
Flying in the dark, astride his sister’s broom,
the wee ghoul soars in his snowman costume.
Until *putt-putt-poot* the broom starts to roll—
The gas tank is empty!
He’s outta control—
Zigging past witches, pumpkins, and bats,
Zagging o’er graveyards complete with black cats…
But then – an idea – and Continue reading
When a fortune cookie
and a photo challenge cross paths, the results can be extraordinary,
like
the sites of San Francisco made from 100,000 toothpicks
When the craziness of the outer world invades my inner peace, a visit to a nearby happy place and a deep breath restores the calm:
The fog had not yet cleared, the air had a nip to it that warranted wearing a light jacket, and I was dang happy that Lucy did not step on the snake that popped from the underbrush and slithered across the trail in front of her. Considering the welcome change in the weather and the avoided trip to the vet juxtaposed to the state of the world I had witnessed on the morning news, I thought to myself, What an awesome day!
A few minutes later, when we crested the hill I was struck by Continue reading
Can you think of a better place than an entire house filled with books and art for a group of writers and artists to meet once a month to dive into craft?
I can’t.
Besides lending itself to good company, tasty nibbles, and an occasional flute of prosecco, The House of Hanging Words, thusly dubbed by some band of merry scribes, offers a space rife with inspiration. Ideas fly off its sunny walls, funnel thoughts through furiously scribbling pens, and splash them onto sheaves of pristine paper, as they did here…
I know myself linked by chains of fire –
hot-white,
orange tongues stretching backwards in time Continue reading
Do stars look to the heavens and marvel at their surroundings?
Might they gossip over a neighbor’s blueshift or trails of cosmic dust
as they redshift on their path to eternity? Continue reading
Whenever the travel bug sends me to a place where I don’t speak the language, I make it a point to learn how to say No – Thank you. In my experience, a nod accompanied by a smile will do for Hello, a wave equals Good-bye, and hands lined up in a prayer position accompanied by a slight nod or lightly patting the place over my heart with one hand will likely be understood as thank you.
It’s the No, thanks that can be tough.
I suppose a simple or vehement shake of the head will get the point across. Adding loud expletives with fist shaking Continue reading
Seven weeks. That’s forty-nine days or one-thousand-one-hundred-seventy-six hours since my last post.
When I began blogging nearly three years ago, my intention was to post once a week with an occasional lapse only due to post adventure maladies, jelly-fish stings, or extended bouts of sea-sickness – none of which apply here.
So was it the lazy days of summer or the apocalyptic cataclysm of losing a complete Continue reading
What ho, a door in the forest? Looks harmless. Unless it opens to a land rife with
malodorous trolls, attacking arachnids, or hellacious cannibals. Or it could hold nothing but a peek into the lives of the inhabitants of a neighboring town, as in this case…
The truth about Alice Wetherby-Pimms was shrouded in obscurity since long before Horace Hornby, MHS, Ph nearly D, had been summoned to shipping magnate Roderick Pimms’ eccentric cliff top estate. Indeed, the village’s newcomer had been completely unaware of the child’s reputation for continuously causing the most dastardly of misfortunes to befall anyone who so much as graced the property with a footfall – never mind a Continue reading
Esteemed author Jane Yolen is well-known for sharing one secret in particular with regard to her productivity, and that’s – BIC – putting your Butt In Chair. Choose the time, the place, and show up. It’s where you need to be so that the muse can find you. I don’t know about you, but when someone has authored over 300 books and been called the Hans Christian Andersen of America and the Aesop of the twentieth century, I sit up and listen. My writing companion, not so much. But what does Lucy know? She sleeps on tabletops.
As writer’s, poets, artists of any kind, we also know that the muse can often be a fickle little Continue reading
global literature for young people
Life is make believe, fantasy given form
reading writing illustrating children's books
Culture and Communities at the Heart Of India
Where Reality Meets the Imagined
- reviewing the latest & greatest books plus reading-related products for kids & families.
Welcome to a journey into our Universe with Dr Dave, amateur astronomer and astrophotographer for over 40 years. Astro-imaging, image processing, space science, solar astronomy and public outreach are some of the stops in this journey!
Hand Drawn Maps and More.
Open Up A Whole New World
Thoughts about writing and life
Find your perfect book.
A daily selection of the best content published on WordPress, collected for you by humans who love to read.
From Rat Race to Road Trip: Overlanding With Four Dogs!
Exploring the World of Writing
It takes a flock to get a story aloft.
The Blog about everything and nothing and it's all done in the best possible taste!
Of Books, Photography, and Tea
Authors & Illustrators Wild About Kidlit!
The Lerner Blog
dream-protecting author
Welcome
by Matt Zurbo
The Mystery, Motivation and Mastery of Life
Stories and photos from Scotland
Engaging readers in children's literature
MIDDLE GRADE BOOK REVIEWS, GIVEAWAYS, & WRITING TIPS
“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.” ~ Anna Quindlen
Reader, Writer, Miner of Moments
discovering the story it tells
This picayune world, my own private Lilliput.
Just exploring what it is to be human.
Picture Books Help Kids Soar
A community of readers
Master Teacher, Druid, Shaman, Wisdomkeeper
Ramblings
Not What You'd Expect from a Very Southern Voice
Surviving and Thriving in Northeast Greenland
A word after a word after a word is power. --Margaret Atwood
Children's Author
Children's Picture Books, Reading, Writing, and Fun on Long Island
books * science * nature * art * cultural identity * food
Sharing Information About Writing and Illustrating for Children
Where You Live Happily Ever Laughter!
A site devoted to the Young Adult sci-fi/fantasy novel The Eye-Dancers
Flash Fiction, Book Reviews, Devotionals and other things.
or 
Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner 