Tuesday Tales is a weekly blog featuring diverse authors who post excerpts from their WIPs based on word and picture prompts. This snippet based on the picture prompt is from a work in progress temporarily called Soul Double. Please visit the other fabulous authors at Tuesday Tales. The man brandishing the sword no longer resembled… Continue reading Tuesday Tales: Writing Forest by Flossie Benton Rogers
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Mythic Monday: Cancer Goddess Ix Chel by Flossie Benton Rogers
As the Wheel of the Year turns into midsummer, the energy of Cancer comes to the fore. Concerns shift to the home, family, and our deepest roots. Cancer cherishes the sacred realm of the home. Children, both biological and creative, take center stage. In the atmosphere of Cancer, we may shell over for self protection… Continue reading Mythic Monday: Cancer Goddess Ix Chel by Flossie Benton Rogers
Vintage Friday: It’s Your Music – 1958
Back in my early childhood, my mother ran a restaurant on the Main Street of a small town. We lived in an apartment on the other side of the wall behind the counter and adjacent to the kitchen. It was one of my favorite abodes. A blue linoleum of the ocean and ships (a nod… Continue reading Vintage Friday: It’s Your Music – 1958
Tuesday Tales: Writing Flexible by Flossie Benton Rogers
Tuesday Tales is a weekly blog featuring diverse authors who post excerpts from their WIPs based on word and picture prompts. Today’s prompt is flexible, and the snippet is from a work in progress temporarily called Soul Double. Please visit the other fabulous authors at Tuesday Tales. As his eyes met hers, Rhade’s voice assumed… Continue reading Tuesday Tales: Writing Flexible by Flossie Benton Rogers
Mythic Monday: Shooting the Bull
We all know the astrological Taurus the Bull. We are also familiar with the spirited cowboys of rodeo bull riding, the celebrated and dangerous bull runs in Spain, and the comic depictions of bull fighting in such shows as Bugs Bunny and I Love Lucy. Are you aware that the mighty bull is an iconic… Continue reading Mythic Monday: Shooting the Bull
Vintage Friday: 1950, Give or Take by Flossie Benton Rogers
For those of us born in the 1950s, we tend to think back on those times with misty eyed nostalgia. Many of us grew up in small towns where we picked phlox in the field, played in each other’s yards until dark, and knew better than to sass our elders. It’s amazing to look back… Continue reading Vintage Friday: 1950, Give or Take by Flossie Benton Rogers
Writer Wednesday: Flying with Hummingbird
My latest appearance on Hummingbird Place Blog Talk Radio
Tuesday Tales: Writing Stiff by Flossie Benton Rogers
Tuesday Tales is a weekly blog featuring diverse authors who post excerpts from their WIPs based on word and picture prompts. Today’s prompt is stiff, and the snippet is from a work in progress temporarily called Soul Double. Please visit the other fabulous authors at Tuesday Tales. She shrugged and marched to the beach buggy,… Continue reading Tuesday Tales: Writing Stiff by Flossie Benton Rogers
Mythic Monday: Rune of the Day – Raido
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 pictographic qualities and kinship with long ago cultures, runes are one of my favorite methods. Over three thousand years ago, pictographs… Continue reading Mythic Monday: Rune of the Day – Raido
Vintage Friday: 7 Dynamite Avengers
I loved the stylish espionage series, The Avengers, in all its incarnations, including the seasons with Honor Blackman, Linda Thorson, and even the New Avengers with Joanna Lumley. The show was a thrill to watch – in large part due to Patrick Macnee as the dapper, unflappable John Steed. Sadly, he passed away yesterday, June… Continue reading Vintage Friday: 7 Dynamite Avengers