Dear She Write Sisters,

This blog post is in response to an article in the Atlantic that I hope you all read. Links to it are in my post. I'd love your input on this topic and relish your comments. Thank you and happy June!…

A re-post. Because I'm in a puppy mood . . .…

"Most butts have cellulite anyway, especially the big ones"

Not exactly your average ice breaker, but a fairly decent example of why I've come to loathe the Facebook inbox.…

A repost for a busy day . . .

She of the foul mouth . . .

There are creative ways of…

    I am excited to be a member of She Writes.  I have a lot to learn and it looks like I came to the right place.  My two blogs that I write on are: My Constant Thoughts and Once Upon A Time.   Also, I am part of a community on Google+ which is called Poets of G+.  One of the recent…

Summer has come to Edmonton!!!

You see a fire pit. We see a . . .…

When I was little I was as chubby as can be.  I know it’s hard for some people reading this to believe that, but yeah, I was the “fat kid,” and people weren’t afraid to point it out to me all the time.  I’ve always thought words are powerful, and especially the words you tell a kid.  

I would hear things like…

Our two youngest, with their families, have moved back in for a while.

I'm cherishing this moment in time . . .…

Monday Muse looks at the community-based initiative Literary Lots, which aims to "bring books to life" by creatively reshaping, repurposing, and reusing vacant lots in Cleveland, Ohio, to promote educational programming for youth.
http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2013/04/monday-muse-literary-lots.html

Sometimes, in the dark hours, when the birds in the parking garage are silent, and all I can hear is the shushing of the tires of the homebound late shift workers, I think about you.

I try to remember the good times, the times in Technicolor, filled with heart and soul so deep all I could see was rich, brown velvet.

In a box,

that velvet climbed up the walls, caressed the…

Pure lunacy.  What is wrong with people today? Oh, scratch that, people have been this way for years I know.  Let me start again, what is going on?  Everywhere I turn to read, just about anything lately it seems to be just off the wall, lunacy.  I mean pure insanity.  Yesterday I wrote about mothers abandoning children because I was reading about three or four different articles on people just leaving kids wherever they felt like it and today, well some lady decides she wants to steal…

How long does the normal relationship go before losing it's "wow", the "honeymooner's stage" as my best girlfriend put it?  Sitting back in my big comfy, not so much anymore, office chair, back to the days of my marriage, can I even remember?  No really, did I have that?  Think Tamara, think.  Ohhhh, yup, here it comes, I will say for me the first year, plus before kids.  I call it B.C..  Now this is all depending upon the surroundings (in-laws, bff's, neighbors, lol), because we all know…