Exploring the Places No One is Talking About
The local farmers market has some fantastic vendors, one of which makes pasta. They also make fantastic butternut squash ravioli. They don’t have a website but if you end up at the Denton Community Market stop in at Lucido’s Garden Pasta. I worked with them to come up with an easy (and tasty) summer recipe
It has been a while since I posted a writing group piece. I’ve been writing a lot of poetry lately in group, partly due to the fact I need something different since my big project is all pros. If you are curious about that project is it a much expanded (and updated) version of this
Hello all, I’ve been quiet on here lately so I thought I’d give you some updates. I have a couple of trips and a video in the works. I’ve been reading a lot. Yes, I am behind on travel posts and book reviews. A lot of that is because I have been working on a
One of our favorite places to hike is the LBJ National Grasslands. This hike got cut short by those storms you see in the distance in the first picture. That being said it was 100% worth it for the wildflowers.
The prompt that sparked these two poems was jokingly named poems of salt, things we disliked, this that frustrated us. There were a lot of heavy poems the week we wrote these. Mine are a bit lighter, a bit more metaphoric but still have themes that are important to me. What poems of salt would
I have wanted to go to the Bluebonnet Festival in Ennis Texas for a ridiculous long time and finally made it this year! The actually festival is only one weekend a year but the whole month of April people can drive the bluebonnet trails. There are a lot of bluebonnets and other wild flowers and
April in National Poetry Month. The prompt for this week was to write a poem of dedication to something we admire or find beautiful. I wrote two about love and about books. Happy reading. Ode to Love Love, an odd emotionDisplaying itself in So many ways. Of’t imagined asGrand gesturesWild passionsWhirlwind romance At the start thatMaybe true Time
My birthday is in early April and I needed a bit of nature. We took the dogs out for an easy hike at the Forth Worth Nature Center. Yes, dogs, Miss Ava with the snaggletooth was a guest. We saw the bison and butterflies, and plenty of wildflowers. The day was overcast and a bit
My apologies for my slow posting lately. I will get back to my Niagara Falls posts soon. I might have burnt myself out a bit to be honest and so I’ve been reading a lot. If you are curious as to my reading list, check out my book reviews or my Goodreads. The solar eclipse
The prompt for writing group this week was to write about a battle. This battle could be real, fictional, or metaphorical. I went with an obscure battle that was ultimately fought because of pride. This is the Battle of the Book that occurred in what is now Sligo County, Ireland. You can read the full
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