• Five Minute Friday - Linkups

    Specific Goals FMF

    I am joining up with Five Minute Friday During five minute Friday we are given a word prompt and free write for 5 minutes. Learn more about the link-up and how it works here. This weeks word prompt is SPECIFIC I had a brain freeze or rather my mind has so many tabs open I had brain overwhelm or writers block… I put the word “specific” in the search box on my blog to see where and how it pops up.  I have used the word Specific 14 times in 399 posts. This will be my 400th post. “Set specific…

  • Five Minute Friday - Linkups

    Trust Brighter Days are Coming

                                  Trust Brighter Days are Coming     I am linking up at  FMF Writing Prompt Link-up :: Trust – Five Minute Friday The link up directions are  we are given a word prompt and write for five minutes. This week’s FMF writing prompt is: TRUST Setting a timer for five minutes, and . . . GO.  When I saw this word prompt I had several phrases pop in my head “Trust in Him” and “Trust the Process” Trust Brighter Days are Coming. As I wrote…

  • Five Minute Friday - Linkups

    Savoring Five Minutes Friday

    Savoring Five Minutes Friday I am joining up for a weekly Five Minute Friday writing prompt link-up. Over at Five Minute Friday each week we are given a word prompt and free write for five minutes using that prompt. This week’s FMF writing prompt is: SAVOR First lets define the meaning of the word savor. Merriam-Webster defines    Savor as ” 1: to give flavor to : SEASON 2a: to have experience of : TASTE b: to taste or smell with pleasure : RELISH c: to delight in : ENJOY” The first thing that pops in to my mind is  the taste of something such as the taste of chocolate melting on…

  • Five Minute Friday - Linkups

    FMF Writing Prompt Link-up :: ENABLE

    I am linking up at Five Minute Friday During five minute Friday we are given a word prompt and write for 5 minutes. This weeks Five Minute Friday  Writing Prompt is  ENABLE Enable Help and Hope I actually wrote a blurb about the word Enable during my attempt at the Write28Days challenge. “hopefully I can enable and help some children find a better future and heal the trauma that they have been handed by those meant to love and care for them in the first place.” Often when I think of the word enable it makes me think of when…

  • Five Minute Friday - Linkups

    Once Upon A Time

    I am linking up with FMF Writing Prompt Link-up :: Once – Five Minute Friday Once Five minute Friday is a linkup where we are given a writing prompt. We spend 5 minutes with the timer on and free write. Once, Upon a time there was a little girl. Her name was Laurie. Her Mom nicknamed her Lollipop and had a story made up about Lollipop Land. Laurie grew up. She got her first computer and began using the nickname Wabbit. Wabbit’s Big Mess is a story she’s been working on over the years. Cleaning up Wabbits mess has been…

  • Five Minute Friday - Linkups - Mental Health

    Fixing The Broken Things Five Minute Friday

    Fixing The Broken Things Five Minute Friday FMF Writing Prompt Link-up :: Fix   FMF Writing Prompt Link-up :: Fix – Five Minute Friday Five Minute Friday we are given a word prompt and spend 5 minutes writing about that word. This weeks word is Fix. I would love to be able to ‘fix’ so many things. Fixing the broken things. I wish I could fix the broken mental health system that has so many people falling through the cracks. I wish I could fix the system that so many foster children find themselves in. These children slipping through the cracks.…

  • Five Minute Friday - Linkups

    5 Minute Friday Linkup Progress

    I am linking up with https://fiveminutefriday.com/ for a weekly five minute free write. FMF Writing Prompt Link-up :: Progress Do you have that feeling that in spite of your attempts of making goals and lists you aren’t making headway? Reality is maybe that list is unrealistically long. Maybe break it down into priorities and baby steps. These are all things I think I am doing but yet each day I feel like I’m barely keeping up with all those things I am supposed to be getting done. Maybe I need to challenge myself to put one to three things to…

  • Five Minute Friday - Linkups - Mental Health

    Respect: Be Kind Be Open to Differences

    Respect R- E -S -P- E -C- T The first thing on hearing this word is the song start playing in my head by Aretha Franklin. Though she was not the original artist according to my Google results. This sign should be posted in every classroom as a visual reminder. This doesn’t mean take someone abusing you or bullying you but you don’t have to retailiate. You can stand up for yourself and still be kind. “I see so much judgement, anger and hatred spewing in our country these days……But I am not going to veer into politics and don’t…

  • Linkups - Reading

    Short Story Grammies Grid They Eyes In The Painting

    Short Story Monthly Where have we been for the last several? When I last wrote in March I was waking up with an Octopus looking at me. Well it appears there has been a pandemic among several other personal crises and after I climbed back out of the rabbit hole I had fallen into I  was lost on a back country road with my GPS telling me to keep going while the terrain was obviously not meant to be traveled by foot never mind by an  SUV.