Do other people consider your Christmas traditions to be unusual? Weird? Strange?
Christmas Articles, Fiction Writing, Holidays, Writing Prompts and Exercises
Out-of-the-Ordinary Christmas Traditions
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Fiction Writing, Writing Prompts and Exercises
Veijo Rönkkönen Sculpture Park Picture Writing Prompts
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They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but it is up to the author to write those thousand words. (Richard Petracca) Will you be the one to write those thousand words? When you look at a picture, do you only see what is right in front of your eyes? Or do you see…
Emotions, Poisons, Writing Prompts and Exercises
Poisonous Flowers: Lily of the Valley
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The beautiful flower graces my yard with its presence during the spring, and you might even find it in yours. Its large, upright stems are called pipes, and from them hang sweet-smelling, bell-shaped, white or sometimes pink flowers, and its berries are orange-red. Don’t be fooled by its beauty; all parts of this plant are…
Guest Posts
How Public Schools in the U.S. Have Improved – Guest Post by Lloyd Lofthouse
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As amazing as this may sound, the democratically managed public schools in the United States have been slowly and steadily improving over the last 114 years [actually longer than that], and they continue to improve in spite of the false claims to the contrary. How much of an improvement am I talking about? In 1900,…
Easter, Fiction Writing, Holidays, Writing Prompts and Exercises
Crime Novels and the Easter Witch
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Here in the United States, we celebrate Easter by going to church to rejoice in the resurrection of Jesus Christ, having Easter egg hunts, and eating the ears off chocolate bunnies. Well, maybe not everyone eats the ears off the chocolate bunnies, but that is something my husband used to do when our kids were…
