Day One From My Book of Days
When Bigger Picture Moments Blogs celebrating two years of being we paired off to write a piece with one of the other writers who participate in the Bigger Pictures activities and prompts. I was lucky...
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More on A Writer’s Book of Days
Several people asked for additional information on A Writer’s Book of Days, the book of prompts and writing tips that I wrote about last week. It looks like this…for now. I know I will have it...
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Kansas Book Festival
I volunteered last Saturday at the state Book Festival where several Kansas authors as well as authors who have written about topics with a Kansas tie read excerpts from their books, talked about the...
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Corner Library
Near Randolph Elementary in Topeka, KS in the front yard of a blue house on the corner stands a “little free library”. I drive through this intersection every day and one day up it popped, a little...
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Under the Walnut Tree
Our hammock sits in the shade of an old walnut tree. Whenever I lie in it, I lose track of time. This is not a matter of the afternoon slipping away from me. I stare up at the translucent leaves of...
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Books That Changed Me
(Photos from library at Domaine De Chantilly, France. The volumes in the final photo were as small as three inches tall.) Stumbling through the internet I came across a post on Paulo Coelho’s Blog...
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I Love Eric Carle
Prompt: Favorite Children’s Book An early love in my life was author Ezra Jack Keats. One of the first memories I have of being a school girl was heading straight to the section of shelves in the...
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Passport
Writing Prompt: Passport When my kids were in elementary school I found little pretend passports. Wanting to encourage reading and develop the concept of a global community, I decide to use the...
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Not By Bread Alone: 52 Loaves
A few weeks ago my friend Michael slipped me his copy of 52 Loaves, a record of William Alexander’s quest to perfect a simple loaf of bread by baking it every week for one year. Alexander’s project...
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If You Give a Mom a Baby
Too fun to resist. One of the Writer’s Workshop’s prompts this week was– take the children’s book If You Give a Mouse a Cookie and change it to give a mom something of your choice. This was a...
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