Kay Castaneda
Kay Castaneda is retired from a career as a college English instructor in Indiana. She received a B.A. and M.A. from Indiana University. Her articles about education and sociology are included in Sage Publication’s Education and Society Reference Book. Her poetry and creative nonfiction have been published in literary journals. Kay is currently researching the history of Ireland and Scotland for a novel based on her ancestors, in addition to editing her poetry manuscript. Kay’s hobbies include reading biographies, memoirs, traveling and baking.
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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 win a wonderful prize! Day 3 – Double Visions Welcome to Day 3 of the WordCrafter Double Visions Book Blog Tour. Today, author Kaye Lynne Booth talks about the characters of Monique and Shaman Woman, and Werner’s Syndrome, the disease which afflicts both versions of this character. We also…
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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 The Ones Who Stayed With Me By Nurse Sammy One entry per stop. Winners are chosen in a random drawing. Sponsored by WordCrafter Press. Tour Schedule Mon. 12 – Poetry by Mich, Hotel by Masticadores & Masticadores Phillipines Tues. 13 – Writing to be Read – Interview Wed. 14 –…
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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 had called from Mexico the week before with the latest news about their mother. I had known Santos, my mother-in-law, for almost thirty years, sort of growing up right along with her ten children. My mind went into memory mode and I was there in her cocina. “Let’s eat. Ven…
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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 participate in the tour, “The Snow Globe”, by Chris Barili, and “Darkness Tolls”, by Zack Ellafy. After that, it will be my pleasure to introduce you to author Roberta Eaton Cheadle, who will tell you about her story, “Just Desserts”, by Roberta Cheadle https://youtube.com/shorts/sS2fBm7fjHo?feature=share “The Snow Globe”, by Chris Barili…
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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 these episodes of her life. Ingrao contemplates her past life as she remembers how she felt about these events compared to her emotions now. She writes about the lessons learned from both good and negative incidents and how these can be used to help others. The author has used her…
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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 leave my dad and other relatives here. A mean boy told me one day that my hair was dirty. At the time, I didn’t care about hair or clothes because I was too young and depressed. When he told me that, I went home and scrubbed my hair VERY hard…
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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 whispered here I am. Tiny little girlsheld hands floated down riverwhite wings flew away Blue and green and brown eyes closed but not until they saw all the angels reach down and scoop them up out of the raging river, attach whispy wings to twenty seven little bodies who then…
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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 was out of control and heading fast toward a row of brand new vehicles on display. I turned toward the truck that wrecked into me and saw the face of such an evil-looking man who could not have been human. He was laughing and had his mouth open wide so…
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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 annual week-long programming block on the Discovery Channel focusing on shark-themed programming. It originally premiered on July 17, 1988. The block is featured annually in the summer, and was originally devoted to conservation efforts and correcting misconceptions about sharks. Over time, it grew in popularity and became a hit on…
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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 an evil virus with pneumonia and it wore me out! I am very thankful to feel stronger. Challenge: Write a poem or story using the painting as inspiration. Post it on your blog and link to my post. Or you can post your work in the comments below. At the…
