Category: FMF

Welcome to Five Minute Friday. A group of writers, five minutes, one writing prompt, zero editing. Just write. Join us! Today’s prompt: [Way long. Lightly edited. Please forgive.]  It’s probably my mindset but the word “crave” takes me straight to pregnancy. As in the stories we hear (or maybe experience) of 3 a.m. cravings for… Continue reading Cravings

Welcome to Five Minute Friday. A group of writers, five minutes, one writing prompt, zero editing. Just write. Join us! Today’s prompt: I’d love to say that my first thoughts took me to the higher, more philosophical road. The journey I’m on, the journey on which God is leading me, the journey we all share… Continue reading Journey

Three of my cars have been a stick. Four, if you count the family car I drove in high school. Learning to drive a stick in my teens was not fun. In the movies, people always lurch along, STOP-GO STOP-GO STOP-GO but my problem was hills. I could not find that sweet spot in releasing… Continue reading Be still.

Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. .Psalm 139:23 I had a blog for years. I shared and over-shared and for the most part, kept it away from people in my everyday life. I needed a place where I could work through some really difficult times but… Continue reading Take Out Your No.2 Pencil

Once again I'm joining a group of writers for Five Minute Friday. Five minutes, one writing prompt, zero editing. Just write. Join us! Today's prompt: COLLECT Since this is about my Catholic upbringing, first a confession: I went over five minutes. There, I feel better.  🙂 One of my first memories of going to church… Continue reading C-O-L-L-E-C-T