I’m going to tell you all a little story about my day job.  When I started at this office, we began working on a new product line.  We plugged along, sloggin and flogging and making improvements.  We had a few small orders.  Then a few good sized orders but we knew we were just grazing the top of that iceberg.  [...]

Dear Little H, You are always going to do things before I’m ready for you to do them aren’t you?  So far, the only thing that took you longer than it should have was your incubation in my tummy.  You were in there too long and had to be evicted. But since that day, you’ve done everything ahead of schedule.  [...]

Silk Flowers While you stood in your yellow organza dress on a flat bed truck hearing your voice for the first time in a microphone on Mother’s Day, your mother cringed. Her smile tightened. Her teeth clinched. She wore a blue dress with a black plastic belt cinched tight around her slender waist. You had watched her thumb through the [...]

I was lucky this past week to be one of a small group of people to have a sneak peek at what will be the new MomDot.com.  Trisha and her crew have worked hard to develop a community, and now, they are working to provide a space for that community to showcase their talents and really interact with each other.  [...]

The other day I came across a discussion in a writer’s forum I used to frequent.  The thread was about Flash Fiction and so I jumped in and posted my two bits. I said that I don’t believe pieces should be squashed into the 1000 word limit to qualify as flash when they are clearly fragments meant to be longer [...]

Maternal Spark is now famous in Washington DC.  Famous I say!  Thanks to Karen Kullgren at Washington Parent Magazine  for including Maternal Spark in her “Good Stuff” column. ~~~ Go over to past Featured Creative Mom, Leah’s blog.  She’s writing about inspiration during the month of June.  I’m sure she’ll bring some creative energy to all she posts this month [...]