La Bête Noire
(The Black Beast)
Firelight plays across your face. For a moment, maybe, there’s a gentleness I haven’t seen, not since long ago. Time and space have ceased for us. We lay entwined, your hands in my hair, my hand on your chest. And I weep. Such bitter tears of anguish fall from my eyes.

Your eyes are still hidden though. So deep. ( Read more... )

When I was a kid anyone could hit me and I’d take it. I could get called hateful, mean things and I’d produce copious amounts of tears for their enjoyment. I had no defenses and I had no way of knowing how to even build a half-wall around myself. I took every hit, physically, emotionally. It didn’t matter. I learned to lay down early as that kept ( Read more... )

I'm sure I heard this prayer several times while growing up, but it wasn't until around 1 year or so ago that I read through it and felt like it spoke to me. Since then I've tried my best to work toward the goals in this prayer. In just working at it, it's changed my life for the better in more ways than I can count. It's made me smile more, laugh ( Read more... )

Okay. I am on an extended blog break. This was not intentional, but my life has taken some twisty turns this past month. (No tornado pun intended) And on that note, we are fine where I'm at. However, we're all a little worried about how much longer the levees can hold that mighty Mississippi back from us. It's breaching levees all up and down its ( Read more... )

I've been holding back a soap box regarding tons of outrage over the replaced words in one of the newer versions of the Bible. Put as simply as I can: I teach kids from a KJV because that's all I'm allowed to teach from. They get glazed eyes as I read and don't understand a word of what I'm saying. Lucky for me, my teaching book translates it all ( Read more... )

I missed onegrapeshy 's Grapemo ending. :-( Sorry. I have a very valid excuse. We were installing our new cabinets and tiling our counter tops.  And of course I have pics. Because my mosaic blog needs remodeling pics.  You can tell I've been staring at tiles too much by the excessive use of mosaic, huh?  I bet it makes an entrance into PA as well. lol Right ( Read more... )

1. Lost in my fiction world and remodeling, I completely forgot to pay my internet bill.  Okay, actually, that's not true. I tried to pay it last week, but AT&T had major issues with their website so I couldn't get through.  Then I got busy writing and forgot.  So this morning I woke up to suspended email accounts. Oops. Before I even had my coffee ( Read more... )

My life’s littered with bad moments. Sometimes so many I can’t see through the grime ( Read more... )

Hmm... What can I say but it's a little hard.  I probably have tons of tile shopping drama I could fill this page with, but why bother? We found the tile, ordered it, and right now I don't have a kitchen.   Yeah. Really. It's having new sheet rock put on it behind where the old cabinets used to be. It's been wired for new outlets and the plumbing ( Read more... )

1.I spent my first day of no FB, Twitter, and book forums reading. I worked on my book a lot too. :-) It was fun. And since I talked so little I feel like my life is building a mystery around itself ( Read more... )