the whole way home

Linking up once again with Lisa-Jo Baker for Five-Minute Friday. The challenge?  Write for five minutes on the word view.   the view from the rear view mirror is always the clearest   hindsight and terrain gone by overcome and conquered   but the...

this is my song

It’s Five-Minute Friday time with Lisa-Jo Baker.  This week’s writing prompt is: song. Join us with your own five minutes of free, unedited writing by clicking here. We had congregated in a large room of my home church, waiting for the rest of the mourners...

comfort

It’s Five-Minute Friday time … link up your own five minutes with Lisa-Jo Baker here. This week’s word: Comfort. *** Comfort. We crave it like a slab of dark chocolate. We sip it slowly like a cup of hot chai. We wrap ourselves in it like a handmade...

and we’ll call it a jump

This post is part of Lisa-Jo Baker’s Five Minute Friday.  Write for five minutes flat on the prompt, “Jump” … link up here. “I’m gonna do it!” he declares with gusto as he wades his way to the steps of the pool. Having just witnessed his elder...

after

This week’s Five Minute Friday prompt is: after. But before I begin, I want to point you to Five-Minute Friday’s founder, Lisa-Jo Baker.  Her post this week is the post I couldn’t write.  In five minutes, she writes the song that plays on repeat in my heart.  She...

broken

It’s Five-Minute Friday time … and this week’s prompt is: broken. Five minutes of free writing, no edits.  Join up here. Here we go … If you scan the pews carefully, you’ll see them.  Peppered throughout each row, they are there. The broken...