Photo Prompt

I participate in several writing prompts, but I don’t normally host them myself. Just out of curiosity, I wanted to try this one. This is a photo of a door under the stairs that leads to the basement of the house in which I am living. At the bottom of my basement stairs, there isContinue reading “Photo Prompt”

500+ Followers!

Congratulations to Ushma Patel for being my 502nd follower and receiving a free copy of my book Tell Me No Secret! If you would like to visit her page, you can find it here: https://ushmapatelblog.wordpress.com/ I started this blog in July of 2020, but after blogging for about a year, I took a year off.Continue reading “500+ Followers!”

In My Head

Is it only in my head? My dreams are always better than life, Sometimes I wish I were dead, My reality is filled with strife. My dreams are always better than life, I know I’m thinking selfishly, My reality is filled with strife, And nobody really loves me. I know I’m thinking selfishly, That’s justContinue reading “In My Head”

Spiral of Depression

It usually starts with something small Sometimes I don’t know what it was at all Sometimes I do I add more to it, things that don’t even relate My mind spins as it gets bigger, inflates Like a spiral, it grew I’m so far out that I can’t trace it back to where it beganContinue reading “Spiral of Depression”

Blogger Games #8

Blogger Games #8 Aug 27 Captain’s Speech – The Captain’s Quiz 8: Summer Side Up THE 10 QUESTIONS & ANSWERS You are going camping at a campground for four days and three nights. Does this excite you, or fill you with dread? Explain. I’m excited. I haven’t been camping in a long while. I would likely beContinue reading “Blogger Games #8”

The Hand of Death

The first time I saw the Hand of Death, it was reaching for my sister. We had taken our father’s fishing boat out into the middle of the lake. My sister hopped out for a swim while I remained in the boat. She was wearing her lifejacket, at my mother’s insistence, and hadn’t waded farContinue reading “The Hand of Death”