Oven Barbecued Chicken
Many can recall with fondness the smells and tastes of Mom’s kitchen: the warm aromas wafting from the oven, enveloping you like a blanket as you stomp the snow from your boots. Of all Mom’s culinary specialties, Oven Barbecued Chicken comes back to me the most clearly, and with all the horror of a recurring [...]
The Sun and Silence
Six Word Friday: Silence. Hello sun light, my old friend I’m walking in your warmth again. From depths of seemingly endless night Out of darkness into the light From visions, that dragged me down To find, deep in my mind The dark, the tears, the silence. Deep in thought, I walked alone Narrow halls I [...]
Monday(ish) Moment: Bliss
Every Friday Brie, from Capital Mom, posts a theme / topic and if you like you can join her by writing about a moment related to that theme/ topic the following Monday. This week’s Monday Moment is Bliss. ~ This post has too many words, too much complexity, for a moment so simple. Me, rushing [...]
Zubenelgeneubi
Every Friday Brie, from Capital Mom, posts a theme / topic and if you like you can join her by writing about a moment related to that theme/ topic the following Monday. This week’s Monday Moment is Jumping. ~ She’s jumping, for the sheer joy of it. Beneath her feet, a cat, basking in the [...]
BUG!
Every Friday Brie, from Capital Mom, posts a theme / topic and if you like you can join her by writing about a moment related to that theme/ topic the following Monday. This week’s Monday Moment is Unexpected. ~ “BUG! BUG!” you shriek, as you rip the bright yellow crocs back off your feet. And [...]
Two Mondays. Two Moments.
Every Friday Brie, from Capital Mom, posts a theme / topic and if you like you can join her by writing about a moment related to that theme/ topic the following Monday. My moments almost always seem to come a day or two too late, so this post is a double header: Last Week’s Monday [...]
Cruisin’
Every Friday Brie, from Capital Mom, posts a theme/topic and if you like you can join her by writing about a moment related to that theme/topic the following Monday. The theme for this week’s Monday Moment is Friendship. ~ Two friends, out cruisin’ in their brand-new ride. ”Tell baby about what you see, that’s how she [...]
The Very Hungry Baby
Every Friday Brie, from Capital Mom, posts a theme / topic and if you like you can join her by writing about a moment related to that theme/ topic the following Monday. This week’s Monday Moment is Pretend. ~ “On Tuesday, he ate through FOUR strawberries. But he was STILL hungry.” And so, it seems, [...]
I Am Momma. And I Am Surprised.
Every Friday Brie, from Capital Mom, posts a theme / topic and if you like you can join her by writing about a moment related to that theme/ topic the following Monday. This week’s Monday Moment is Surprise The fishing trip wasn’t a surprise. It had been planned for months. Planned at a time when [...]
Ap plausium
Theme for Six Word Friday: Again. I hold my breath, peer down. A gain? No, a loss. Again. Bits of me are disappearing. Again. I’ll have to go shopping. Again. And now, to do it again. And again, and again, and again.




