A Very Musical Award I am very honoured and surprised that such an influential blogger as Ronovan should nominate me for the Most Influential Blogger Award! Check out his blog! You’ll find reflections on life, short stories, poems, and much more to inspire you to think and write… Here are the guidelines for acceptance. ToContinue reading “Most Influential Blogger Award: ‘Like a Room Without a Roof’! But ‘Slow’”
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The Daily Post Photo Challenge: Between City Trees
CITY TREES The prompt: Between. This week, capture something between two things, reflect on the process of transition, or interpret this word in your own way. Most streets in the city where I live have trees lining the pavements. I’m sure it’s wonderful for the passers by. They are shady, and pretty, and they provideContinue reading “The Daily Post Photo Challenge: Between City Trees”
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Crooked and Squiggly Lines
As every week, I’ve been looking for inspiration for Cee’s picture prompts in things I see every day. In this case, crooked and squiggly things around me. I finally came up with a couple of things. Firstly my baby orange tree. The oranges are tiny at the moment, and they won’t be fully grown andContinue reading “Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Crooked and Squiggly Lines”
A Poem for the Second Day of Summer. Rereading Christina Rossetti’s Summer
I have a very soft spot for Christina Rossetti’s poetry, especially her short, intense verses, full of symbolism and feeling. Summer was published in The Prince’s Progress, and Other Poems, in 1866 Summer Winter is cold-hearted, Spring is yea and nay, Autumn is a weathercock Blown every way. Summer days for me When every leafContinue reading “A Poem for the Second Day of Summer. Rereading Christina Rossetti’s Summer”
SIMPLICITY
THE SIMPLE THINGS IN LIFE Extraordinary things, rarely happen. It’s the Little Things we see, hear and do every day life livable or unbearable. Simple things become extraordinary if you let them… These are the little things I saw this morning on my way to work which made me arrive with a smile on myContinue reading “SIMPLICITY”
Writing 101, Day Twelve: (Virtual) Dark Clouds on the Horizon
Today’s prompt: Today, write a post with roots in a real-world conversation. Today’s twist: include foreshadowing. Last night I dreamt I returned to…. Part 2. I had to go back. I needed to go inside. I had to speak to him again. Just one more time. I knew he was still there. He toldContinue reading “Writing 101, Day Twelve: (Virtual) Dark Clouds on the Horizon”
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Things with Edges
EDGING TO WORK… For this week’s challenge, I’ve decided to take you for a walk along the edges I see every morning on my way to work. I park my car at the University of Cordoba’s main office. This twentieth-century neo-Moorish building, used to be the Faculty of Veterinary Science, before it was transferred toContinue reading “Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Things with Edges”
“Very Inspiring Blogger Award” and Nominations!
Fellow blogger Angela at Angela’s Accurate Administrative Services’ Blog has nominated me for the Very Inspiring Blogger Award! Thank you for reading my blog and finding me inspiring. What a responsibility! I’ll have to live up to that from now on. Check Angela out! She really is inspiring! These are some ‘rules’ that go alongContinue reading ““Very Inspiring Blogger Award” and Nominations!”
“Writing: often it is the only thing between you and impossibility.”
nothing can save you except writing. it keeps the walls from failing. the hordes from closing in. it blasts the darkness. This is exactly how I feel about writing. Thanks for sharing this wonderful poem Michelle….
Reading Fiction, Brain Function, Cognitive Growth, and Jane Eyre
Do you think reading has any positive effects, apart from being a pleasurable experience? Do you think reading a novel or poetry can improve your minds? Whether you do or not, do you have any proof? Many of us believe that reading for pleasure is beneficial to adults and children, but what evidence do weContinue reading “Reading Fiction, Brain Function, Cognitive Growth, and Jane Eyre”
Rereading Jane Eyre 