Five Minute Friday: Open

Five Minute Friday: Open

What a week. What a collection of posts – nearly 200 hundred delicious confections. What a feast. Thank you for sharing. Thank you for reading. Thank you for encouraging so many. For my part, I’m so grateful to each one of you for being part of this space,...
Five Minute Friday: Open

The post you wish more people had read

We did this last year. We took a day. One day. And sat around together, slumped over sofas, feet up on the coffee table, comfortably folded into chairs, across futons, stretched out on the floor and just reveled in each other’s stories. The stories that we...
Five Minute Friday: The Mail

Five Minute Friday: The Mail

Stop, drop, and write. That’s what we do for five minutes here on Fridays. No tweaking, no back-tracking, no self-editing. Just words. Lots of lovely words for a full five minutes. This week the prompt is:What’s the best mail you got recently – email, text, or...
Five minute Friday: Photo Prompt

Five minute Friday: Photo Prompt

So, here’s the skinny: I’ve been thinking about writing and how often our perfectionism gets in the way of our words. And I figured, why not take 5 minutes and see what comes out: not a perfect post, not a profound post, just five minutes of focused writing. No...