by Stacie Dalrymple | May 22, 2019 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Voting, YeahWrite
Talking Turtle I have an “if animals could talk” calendar. Yes, the old-fashioned paper kind. And apparently May 23 is World Turtle Day! Who else is excited? Just me and all the turtles of the world? Well, hopefully for the nonturtle folk, reading and...
by Stacie Dalrymple | May 15, 2019 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Voting, YeahWrite
Spring Cold I was healthy all winter but now I have a spring cold. The weather’s been terrible though, rainy and dismal, so at least Mother Nature is commiserating with me, I guess. I’ve been popping the zinc cough drops, and I think they might be working?...
by Stacie Dalrymple | May 8, 2019 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Voting, YeahWrite
Rain, Rain, Go Away The first winter I lived in the greater Boston area, Mother Nature delivered the most snow in recorded history. Now, we’ve had the wettest month in recorded history. I am really tired of breaking all-time weather records. I just want some...
by Stacie Dalrymple | May 1, 2019 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, Microprose, Nonfiction, Voting, YeahWrite
O I spy a cuckoo, a cuckoo, a cuckoo It’s the merry month of May, although quite a few folks in the USA and Canada can be forgiven for wondering if they woke up in the wrong hemisphere this week! But where I am (and, I hear, where Rowan and Christine are)...
by Christine Hanolsy | May 1, 2019 | Challenge, Microprose, Open, YeahWrite
I’ve got sunshine I’ve been accused of being an optimist. A unicorns-and-glitter kind of girl. It’s not untrue, especially when the sun is shining and the birds are singing and the sky is blue. Autumn might be my favorite season, with its crisp...
by Stacie Dalrymple | Apr 24, 2019 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Voting, YeahWrite
Spring in My Step After many days of rain, we finally have sun in New England! Plus, the trees are sprouting leaves, and it finally feels like actual spring, which makes me happy. Rowan is rolling her eyes, since she’s a winter person, but at least one of us is...
