We have had a spectacular, unusually long autumn in Montana. It is about to come to an abrupt end, as this weekend is rainy, temperatures are plummeting, and precipitation will likely turn to snow by this afternoon or evening. Thanks to the weather app on my phone, I realized our…

An apology from me — I’ve never left a friend’s house without saying “goodbye” or “see you later.” But despite forming connections with writers and readers on Medium, over a year ago I just disappeared from the platform (and my blog and my social media sites) without as much as a “so long.” This feels…

Their disappearance inspired this attempt at an uncommon poetic form — I’d never heard of the form of poetry called “Dizain” until Will Hull tagged me in a poetry challenge. He learned of it from this article by Adelia Ritchie. I traced back a number of links and I think the challenge actually originated here, written by Somsubhra Banerjee: Uncommon Poetic Forms Would You Give It A Go?medium.com According to Somsubhra, the basic rules for a Dizain poem are clear:

6-Word Photo Story Summer Challenge — Sweltering summer night; breeze-induced shadow. Our daughter’s cat is staying with my husband and I for a week. When she crawled up behind the blinds in our bedroom to sniff the breeze coming in the window. I didn’t know she was there until I saw this silhouette. Thanks again to…

Editing our own work is tough, but would a good writer make these glaring mistakes? — I have been working my way through the questions posed in the writing challenge, Ask Yourself Empowering Questions. This brought forth a searing question of my own: How can I possibly have missed not one, but three enormous errors in the titles of two of the responses I wrote last…

~ 6-Word Photo Story Summer Challenge — Sunsets like this make artwork superfluous. Thank you, Mary Chang Story Writer, for this fun photo/story challenge, and Will Hull, for tagging me as an invitation to participate. Also, thank you Snapshots, for publishing these stories. Per the guidelines for this photo challenge, I’m adding the following tags. Hollie Petit, Ph.D., Ching Ching, Bingz Huang, Sandi…