Sue Perry's Blog: Required Writing, page 28

Natural Sepia Tinting

Just after sunrise on the trails at Griffith Park in Los Angeles, California, the sunlight added a sepia tint to this trail and a grove of eucalyptus trees. (Posted for the latest Weekly Photo Challenge.)

Inspiration From a Life Well Lived

Recently, an internet pal’s grandmother passed away – a woman I had never met nor heard of. In reading her obituary, I discovered that she had been an extraordinary individual, and learning about her life filled me with optimism. Our world is full of wonderful people, some famous, some well-known, and most invisible except to […]

Magical Retaining Wall

A decrepit retaining wall along the shore becomes magic as sunset approaches. (Posted for the latest Weekly Photo Challenge.)

Pssst! Free Ebooks!

Until the end of July, 2013, you can download free and discounted ebooks from Smashwords, an indie publishing distribution site. I hope you will start with mine! Get free ebook versions of my novels  Scar Jewelry or C.R.I.M.E. Science.  Here’s how:  click on the title, which will take you to each book’s  page at Smashwords, where you will […]

Shooting Into The Sun

One thing I love about my iphone’s camera is that it endlessly compensates for poor choices — such as shooting directly at the sun – with frequently lovely results. (Posted for the latest Weekly Photo Challenge.)

Tapping My Inner Hermit

I have always liked being alone, and I am good at it. The one aspect of being a parent that was tough on me was all those years with so little alone time. These last few weeks, recuperating from surgery, with nowhere to go and nothing required of me except laying around, I have had […]

Unforgettable Lines

In yesterday’s post, I noted that I can never remember a joke’s punch line. That got me thinking about  lines that perpetually run through my head. Here are just a few. How many of these do you recognize? (answers on page 2.) I didn’t get the money, and I didn’t get the woman. I’m a […]

The Gift of Joke-Telling

The ability to tell a great joke is a wonderful gift. I wish I had it. My problem is that I can never remember the damn joke. I remember who told it, how hard I laughed, where I was when I heard it, and tantalizing snippets of the set-up or the punchline. But never enough […]

DIY Writing Career

The latest Weekly Photo Challenge focuses on nostalgia and these photos conjure nostalgia in so many ways! In these photos is a tile floor I laid myself. Laying the floor took a long time, but not nearly so long as coming up with a design I liked. When I did the floor, I listened over and over […]

Self Reflection

(Today’s  Daily Prompt says: finish this sentence…) When I look in the mirror I am reminded of hopes and fears see my mother, my sister, my son and feel awe at those family ties suffer flashbacks to other eras and haircuts struggle to take in my full reflection rather than its parts feel familiar yet surprised think I […]