Exploring the Places No One is Talking About
The prompt from this week’s writing group was historical fiction set a 1,000 or more years into the future. Mine is based off of a mocumentary style historical fiction that someone in the future mistakes for actually history and then runs with making it even more ridiculous. This was a lot of fun to write.
After visiting the Keystone Gallery we headed to Historic Scott Lake State Park. There is a day pass fee of $5 per vehicle to visit Scott Lake. Visitors can camp and hike at this state park. We particularly went to visit the El Cuartelejo site. This is the site of “the remains of the northernmost
Life has me a little behind on my normally scheduled posts. That being said, I hope you enjoy these photos from small Texas and Kansas towns that my wonderful husband took on the last trip that don’t really fit anywhere else. What do you think of analog photography? Let me know in the comments! Have
This is not my recipe but it is delicious and I wanted to share it. I tried making this olive oil cake from Food52. This cake is easy to make and super moist. For this version I switched out the whole milk for oat milk because it is what I had available and no one
The day after our hike up Black Mesa Summit we decided to go to Scott City to the local state park and a museum there. Well, we got sidetracked and decided to visit the Keystone Gallery first. If you are fan of the prehistoric this is a must visit place. The proprietor of the gallery
Title: A Fire EndlessAuthor: Rebecca RossPublication Date: 2022Publishing House: Harper Voyager This the second book in the Elements of Cadence series. This is a duology, so the second book is the last book in the series. I got the first book in the series, A River Enchanted, from Book of the Month. This book I picked
Today’s prompt: dinosaurs Okay, that’s a little too broad. In reality we were each given a time period from the prehistoric past of earth and wrote a story. I like how my story turned out but oh my goodness, there were some excellent and wonderfully ridiculous stories from this prompt. Journal Entry – Ship Log
Spring is nearly here and so we must say goodbye to cold days and long nights. We don’t get much snow or ice where I’m from, but the days do get gray. Despite this dreariness there is beauty and long quiet days. Stop for a moment and just relax, breath in the last of winter’s
I know, I talked about Kansas last week and immediately turned around and talked about a different state. This trail is a couple hours drive from where we stayed in Kansas and I have been wanting to hike Black Mesa for a while. Black Mesa Summit is the highest point in the state of Oklahoma
The snow a couple weeks back cancelled our writing group for the week. However, we did have virtual meetup and share haikus about snow. These were easy and fun. As a reminder haikus are three lined poems with a count of 5-7-5 syllables. Elsa’s power coatsBear sniffs, Bear, slips, Bear slides…downFrost chills soft pup paws
McGee Travel Tales 