by Stacie Dalrymple | Aug 19, 2020 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Voting, YeahWrite
Summer Swan Song Summer is nearly over. School, whatever that means, is about to start. How can that be when none of us feel as if we’ve had a real summer at all? I haven’t even read any books, and that is for sure something I could be doing in the...
by Stacie Dalrymple | Aug 12, 2020 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Voting, YeahWrite
Hot Mess Is it hot where you are? It sure is here. Rowan hates that. [ed’s note- she is so right. so right. bring me a winter. /rbg] I don’t love it but also, being COLD is so much worse for me that I try not to complain too much. Except this week. I found...
by Stacie Dalrymple | Aug 5, 2020 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, Microprose, Nonfiction, Voting, YeahWrite
[Ed’s note- The YeahWrite editors extend our sympathies to those affected by the catastrophe in Beirut. It is our urgent hope that the injured heal and that the missing are returned alive to their loved ones. You are in our hearts this week and we grieve with...
by Stacie Dalrymple | Aug 1, 2020 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Microprose, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Stop Bee-ing A Jerk, 2020 Earlier this week, I landed in the emergency room with anaphylaxis. I’ve had fairly severe local reactions to bee and wasp venom my entire life, so I knew this was a possibility at some point, but 2020 is really trying to go down in...
by Stacie Dalrymple | Jul 29, 2020 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Voting, YeahWrite
Kissing Chicken Today is both National Chicken Wing Day AND National Lipstick Day. Does this mean chickens have lips? I didn’t think so. But you don’t need to kiss a chicken on the lips to read and vote on the grids! Or to comment – don’t...
by Stacie Dalrymple | Jul 22, 2020 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Voting, YeahWrite
In the Weeds Every day, I hike with my dogs along a wooded trail which in two places opens up into a meadow. The weeds have gotten so tall on either side of the trail that I can no longer see my dogs if they choose to venture in there. Heck, in some places the brush...
