Dreams let me be a princess AND flout the limits! When I say dream, I don’t mean dream as in aspirations but rather dream as in a surreal landscape almost impossible to describe without instigating tolerant, if insincere, head nods. Even the name “dream logic” tells us that the story we are about to hear or tell will make little…

“Mind your own business!” they ordered, while not minding their own business at all. So the day before yesterday I got in trouble for suggesting that if you see someone post something you don’t like, move on. Be tolerant. Other people are allowed to say things we do not always agree with. And for that, I was skewered. Ironically, really, told that I didn’t…

Writing a little stream of consciousness at the coffee shop. A member of a writers group I belong to had a question, had any of us ever seen bad or obnoxious customers in a coffee shop? She was writing a novel and needed some flair and details for her world. …

My characters might not be real but I still listen to what they tell me. — What is writing? Writing to me is an almost magical passageway into fictional worlds. When a story is told well enough, I can be transported inside whatever is happening. The best told tales let me live the moments in such detail that I become a part of the story unfolding on the page. …

I am a woman with a keyboard, and I have things to say! — Another day, another doodle. People on Medium like to write about writing and in that vein, I previously doodled about doodling. Now permit me to doodle about writing. A lot of my posts are doodled limericks even though most of my verbiage here is short stories followed closely by essays…

I know I post a lot of limericks. But honestly, I am writing longer pieces all the time, every day. When I need a break from writing I write a limerick, and get refreshed. I think they’re fun and rejuvenating, and I can be a little naughty while making myself…

Though I’m sure he didn’t want her to hear him… My friend told me that her boyfriend had no concept of privacy. It’s not like she was really embarrassed, she just didn’t want him acting like a teenager with his friends when it came to her. So when she told…

I love the sun and the sand and everything about the beach except tan lines! And somehow for that, a hat is all that I need and the perfect accent for a careful beach bunny like me. For the reading bot: I Prefer No Tan Lines Doodle When some time…

The weekend comes to give us well- deserved breaks from drudgery. We can plan, and plan on just how we are going to get the rest we deserve. Then your husband comes along and changes everything just because something pops up! For the reading bot: When He Gets a Last…