Author: Flossie Benton Rogers

Paranormal romance author who loves to shake the edges of reality.

Tuesday Tales: Writing Christmas Window

Tuesday Tales is a weekly blog featuring diverse authors who post excerpts from their works in progress based on word and picture prompts. We’re a book hungry troop that enjoys reading as much as you do. Today our prompt is the word bar and another lovely picture. I hope you’ll forgive my different “take” on… Continue reading Tuesday Tales: Writing Christmas Window

Vintage Friday: Boston Cream Pie

With my birthday coming up (yikes, way too fast), I thought I’d splurge and focus on my favorite dessert, Boston Cream Pie. The purported history of Boston Cream Pie makes for fascinating reading and includes red herrings such as cream puffs made in Boston and a type of cakey jelly roll. The foreshadowing of Boston… Continue reading Vintage Friday: Boston Cream Pie

Tuesday Tales: Writing Fierce Snow

Tuesday Tales is a weekly blog featuring diverse authors who post excerpts from their works in progress based on word and picture prompts. We’re a book hungry troop that enjoys reading as much as you do. Today our prompt is a lovely picture. Since we are 80 degrees here in Florida, this wintry scene is… Continue reading Tuesday Tales: Writing Fierce Snow

Mythic Monday: Sophia Lady of Wisdom

Sophia is a loving, generous, contradictory goddess whose name in Greek means wisdom. She is affiliated with Shekinah as the holy spirit imbuing matter and with Gaia as the living embodiment of earth. Sophia is Lady Wisdom. Her beauty is not blatant and superficial. She remains hidden, and yet is accessible to those with sincere… Continue reading Mythic Monday: Sophia Lady of Wisdom

Mythic Monday: Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving! “They begane now to gather in ye small harvest they had, and to fitte up their houses and dwellings against winter, being well recovered in health & strength, and had all things in good plenty; for some were thus imployed in affairs abroad, others were exercised in fishing, aboute codd, & bass, &… Continue reading Mythic Monday: Happy Thanksgiving

Tuesday Tales: Writing Band

Tuesday Tales is a weekly blog featuring diverse authors who post excerpts from their works in progress based on word and picture prompts. We’re a book hungry troop that enjoys reading as much as you do. Today our word prompt is band. The  excerpt is from a paranormal romance featuring a fading rocker. Please visit the… Continue reading Tuesday Tales: Writing Band

Mythic Monday: Rune of the Day – Mannaz

MANNAZ Divination is a way to focus on what matters. It allows us to gain insight into the ripe possibilities of the moment and is best used as a type of meditative effort. With their symbolism and kinship with long ago Scandinavian and Germanic cultures, runes are a fascinating method. From the bag of runes,… Continue reading Mythic Monday: Rune of the Day – Mannaz

Vintage Friday: Autumn Leaves 1886

Autumn Leaves by A. Purinton    By happenstance I came across a female poet I was not familiar with, a New Englander named A. Purinton. Her compilation Autumn Leaves was published in 1886 in Massachusetts. Have you heard of her? She never sought to be published and wrote the lyrics for her own satisfaction. They… Continue reading Vintage Friday: Autumn Leaves 1886

Tuesday Tales: Writing Hook

Tuesday Tales is a weekly blog featuring diverse authors who post excerpts from their works in progress based on word and picture prompts. We’re a book hungry troop that enjoys reading as much as you do. Today our word prompt is hook. Please visit the other fabulous authors at Tuesday Tales. “My mother taught me,… Continue reading Tuesday Tales: Writing Hook