Mar 23, 2021 | Carolyn Helfenstein, Writers
This is not an ordinary obituary. Farm dogs guard the farmer’s home, their loud dependable bark announces incoming cars and trucks. They make doorbells unnecessary. And within a five second sniff of a truck wheel an average farm dog can determine where a truck has...
Feb 27, 2021 | Shane Joseph, Writers
Everyone is writing a pandemic journal, it seems. We all want to capture this lost time that will soon disappear (we hope) when the vaccine makes its way into our arms, when we forget face masks, and how to socially distance, and the acronyms PPE, PCR and RNA. We want...
Oct 16, 2020 | Erika Rummel, Writers
Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa, was a sixteenth century composer and musician. The town of Gesualdo in Campania was also the place where he lived. Spring was in the air. The capes of the two ladies strolling in the garden were fluttering in the warm breeze. It was a...
Oct 13, 2020 | Donna Wootton, Writers
Photo by Donna Wooton On the porch in the shade visitingsitting on a wicker chaira cyclist passesblack spandex shortsyellow topNever again will I click my feet into cleats!Hostess agrees.she, too, broke her ankle recentlyhence the visit to commiseratebroke mine in...
Oct 10, 2020 | Ronald Mackay, Writers
Today, as the skin of the cooked beetroot slipped off easily under the gentle pressure of my fingers, I am taken back to the moment my hands first performed that satisfying act. I was four and three hours earlier, had helped my mother lift the raw beetroot from my...
Oct 6, 2020 | Michael Croucher, Writers
I’ve been toying with the idea of writing my memoirs for a while now. But I’ve always written fiction, and memoirs present challenges to the what-if mindset of fiction writers. Memoirs are factual, with elements of fancy used very carefully. That’s a tall order...
