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The Rock Star and the Outlaw 2: Double Visions– Day 3 Word Crafter Book Blog Tours
Hello everyone! I’m happy you stopped in at bookplaces.blog where The Rock Star and the Outlaw 2: Double Visions by Kaye Lynne Booth is the featured book today. I’ve read some of Kaye’s other books and anthologies, and I’m sure you will be entertained by this one. Don’t forget to visit the other stops on the tour for a chance to…
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The Ones Who Stayed With Me – Day 4 Word Crafter Book Blog Tours
The Ones Who Stayed With Me – Day 4 Word Crafter Book Blog Tours Hello everyone! I’m glad you stopped in for Day 4 of Word Crafter’s Book Blog Tour. We have a wonderful book, The Ones Who Stayed With Me, by Nurse Sammy. Give Away Leave a comment for a chance to win a free digital copy of…
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What Are You Going To Do When I’m Gone?
The lady at home” Henry Margetson ( 1861 – 1940 ) British Painter Reprint from The Memoirist What Are You Going To Do When I’m Gone? “Everybody dies.” Tony, my husband, didn’t like it very much when I said that. The two of us were up early driving through the flat cornfields of western Indiana. His sister Yolanda…
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Welcome to WordCrafter’s “Midnight Oil” Book Blog Tour Day 3
Day 3 Tour Stop – Midnight Oil Welcome to Day 3 of the WordCrafter Midnight Oil Book Blog Tour. Today, we’ll be learning a little about three stories in Midnight Oil: Stories to Fuel Your Nightmares, volume 3 in the Midnight Dark Fiction Anthology Series from WordCrafter Press. First, well see excerpts from stories whose authors weren’t able to…
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Review of Embracing the Power to Live by Marsha Ingrao
Embracing the Power to Live is a memoir written in prose, verse, and photographs. Author Marsha Ingrao reflects on the milestones of her life such as childhood, moving, parents, friends, career, the death of her first spouse, and a second marriage. Her retirement as a teacher now gives her the opportunity to reflect about the deeper meanings and reactions to…
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The Beauty Lesson
I still fume when I remember a boy in my 5th-grade science class. That was a very long time ago. I was shy and silent at that age and everything bothered me. My mom had moved my sisters and I away from Indianapolis to Detroit after she and my dad got a divorce. It made me sad and angry to…
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Short Sweet Life
Featured image: Big Moon Hug by Jerry Kirk Short Sweet Life The little girls are angels now. But first they had to dive into the water, swim down the river, breaststroke, backstroke, butterfly stroke. The current carried them, they floated, heads above the black water. Arms quit moving, legs stopped kicking until their tiny hearts quit beating. Blue lips…
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I Am Your Guardian Angel Stephen
I Am Your Guardian Angel Stephen Do you believe in angels? I am now absolutely sure they are here with us on Earth! About twenty years ago, I had a strange accident while driving on a highway. An old truck came up behind me, bumped my car and pushed me into the grounds of a car dealership. I knew I…
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Memoirs of a Shark
CHALLENGE I decided to participate in this week’s dVerse challenge. The prompt is SHARKS. I’m a few days late, but I thought I would go ahead and post on my blog. In honor of Shark Week, I wrote a poem. I never watched the entire movie JAWS. I left the room once I saw that Huge shark. Shark Week is an…
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Let’s Go To The Museum: Apollinaire and His Friends
Marie Laurencin, 1909, Réunion à la campagne (Apollinaire et ses amis), oil on canvas, 130 x 194 cm, Musée Picasso, Paris. Reproduced in The Cubist Painters, Aesthetic Meditations (1913) APOLLINAIRE AND HIS FRIENDS, MARIE LAURENCIN This month’s visit to the museum features a painting by French artist Marie Laurencin. Sorry that I haven’t been able to post any art writing challenges for awhile. I had…
