It’s hard to believe that the first week of the new year is over! From the pressure of which book will be the first to finishing four books, this week was chock full of enjoyment.

The first book of the year. I’ve always felt a little bit of pressure around…

At first, I thought it was sweet,
reliving the past, every detail of things
like how we met at a job I started
because I needed a paycheck- had
a week to secure work. Running on
emergency funds.

Then it was every detail of the sports games,
not just hometown…

Bliss is…. traveling through bookish worlds.

I’ve been a life-long reader. Starting when I was five and used to curl up in a large brown chair in the living room of my childhood home. That love continued on through college, where I studied literature. I still enjoy reading a wide variety of books, with favorites being…

It couldn’t hold off longer?

fresh white flurries fall
I forgot the sound of plows
wake me when over.

Not too long ago, I wrote an article about four challenges that help to meet our reading goals in 2022. I wanted to take a little from each in designing my own reading plans for both the year in general and each month.

The Year-long Challenges

I participate in both the buzzwords readathon…

“My past has been haunting me for my entire life, like a phantom that was never laid to rest, just like those girls”. -Chloe, A Flicker in the Dark

Synopsis:

It’s been 20 years since the disappearance of six girls in the small town of Breaux Bridge, Louisiana. Chloe Davis, the…

a poem

Your love is the air pouring into the
window in the morning to kiss me awake.
Sending frequent reminders disguised as
chilly days and nights in the winter
the russell of grass in the spring
the infrequent gust in summer
the cooling down of fall,
causing me to stop…

30 day challenges… love them or hate them, they teach you a lot. I originally tried to go for a 30 day- 30 Medium stories- 30 publications in July. I came up short by 8. By the end, I didn’t want to write for the publications I had left with…