Tag: Happy New Year

Writing Group: Short Story: XVI

Happy New Year to all and welcome to 2023, may it treat us well. This was the final prompt for 2022. Inspiration: Dicken’s A Christmas Carol and other Victorian error Christmas ghost stories. Prompt: Write a ghost story with a moral. The response to this were great in our writing group. The writer that won

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Kansas: Gingerbread Houses

While in Kansas for a belated holiday activity we decorated gingerbread houses. My doghouse used a LOT of red icing and my work stations and hands were covered in icing the whole time. I honestly don’t remember the last time I decorated a gingerbread house but this was fun and I’d love to do it

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Weekend Wanderings: Home for the Holidays: Part III: Kansas

One of the big events during my visit to Kansas was a trip to Cimarron, KS for a belated Christmas with Keltin’s paternal side of the family. I don’t know if any of you have met a large number of your significant other’s relatives all at once but it is a bit overwhelming, even if

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Weekend Wanderings: Home for the Holidays: Part II: Kansas

My family and I are from Texas but my boyfriend and his family are from Kansas. Keltin and I took a couple of days off of work so that we could go visit them for a belated Christmas and New Years. After work, we packed gifts, bags, and Bear into the car and were off

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