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Ten Things of Thankful 134 (Of Big Things and Little Ones) #10Thankful

I’ve already read one speed-written post this evening. My friend Gigi (who assures me she might, perhaps, link up with us) was charged with writing a post in an hour. Would that I had the luxury of an hour! Nay, fair friends – I have but 16 minutes until I’m officially late for keeping up…

We know who DIDN’T dunnit

Head in hands, heart in mouth, and the sensation of bile rising in stomach and brain, Tom sat in the back of the police car, watching his colleagues leave in the ambulance. He should have been with them.His unceremonious and very public eviction from the village hall (upon discovery) had resulted in an unanticipated half-day…

I promise I’m not just stupid…

Who’s done it? I bet you have. Four days into the new year and I told myself (like you probably did) that I wasn’t going to be one of those people…you know…those stupid idiot people…the ones who, in spite of gearing up for and celebrating New Year’s Eve in whatever fantasmagorical way they chose, somehow *cannot* remember…

2016: On Becoming

The first day of the new year, as I sit in it, is pale grey. Light diffuses through the rooms from overcast skies, lending shadows to the usual corners, and providing softly brighter patches on walls as windows catch and bend whatever meagre offering has osmosed from the hidden sun. It’s cool, and though wrapped…

Ten Things of Thankful 133 (Looking back) #10Thankful

Prompted by a consider-inducing post about vision boards, I thought for about 13 seconds about what my board would have on it, should I choose to create one. Initially I thought about putting a map of America on it, but that’s too blunt; too black-and-white, and as you well know, I tend to be far…

Maybe they ALL dunnit

Tom’s mind span out of control as he tried to process the new information – that his darling Grandma was somehow at least partially (maybe) responsible for a grisly murder – and slowly his sense of vision returned, revealing the face of that beloved lady peering anxiously into his. “Lovey,don’t try to move and we’ll…

10 Things of Thankful 132 (with or without feeling) #10Thankful

I have everything I need. I have MORE than everything I need. I have all the basics covered, and huge, glorious spadefuls of abundance and plenty. Maslow would look down his nose at me for being so close to the tip of his pyramid and for still feeling…flat. I guess the point is that thankfulness…

Lovelies, Merry Christmas

Lovelies, MERRY CHRISTMAS. My wish for you this Christmas is that you spend time surrounded by love – whether with people next to you, or held close in your hearts – and that you get to hold onto the knowledge that there is perhaps no better thing in the world to cherish and be cherished…

No WAY did YOU dunnit!

Tom staggered backwards, reeling in shock as he registered that the one person he had never considered capable of treachery was embroiled, perhaps even up to her neck, in this grisly tale. “Grandma?” “Tom, dear, you have to understand – he was a threat to the whole village. He had such ways about him as I never…

Spirit, Stuff, and Seekers (a #1000Speak post)

I had a beautiful post written for this month’s 1000Speak, all about Spirit and Stuff and kindness to strangers. I spent hours crafting it, working late into the night to hone it to perfection a readable state, and was so tired I was falling asleep at the keyboard. That was my mistake, because with a…