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Tuesday Tales: Writing Gray Crags

Welcome to Tuesday Tales, a weekly blog featuring diverse authors posting excerpts from their works in progress based on word and picture prompts. I’m pleased you stopped by today. This week the word prompt is gray. My snippet is from a fairy tale. Enjoy the other authors of Tuesday Tales.   The blustery wind howled… Continue reading Tuesday Tales: Writing Gray Crags

Fae Friday: Creative Ways to Shrink Yourself

What’s your favorite fairy tale? Do you remember from your childhood days? Put on your thinking cap because it can reveal the mysteries of your deeper self. Are you Cinderella, champion of the downtrodden? A maidenly Snow White unhappy with her alter ego, the evil bitch queen? An intrepid wit getting the upper hand on a… Continue reading Fae Friday: Creative Ways to Shrink Yourself

Vintage Friday: World Book Day

Stories help create a child. THE book that lit the fire on my passion for reading, writing, fairy tales, and mythology is actually a SET of books my parents bought me at age 3—the Young Folks Library. At that time my mother and father worked long hours at their restaurant business, but my paternal grandparents… Continue reading Vintage Friday: World Book Day

Mythic Monday: Felicia and the Pot of Pinks

FAIRY TALES I’m excited to add a new, regular feature to Mythic Monday, the sharing of fairy tales from the set of ten books I had as a little girl: Young Folks Library by Charles E. Knapp. My grandmother read these stories to me, and I later read them to my dolls. These fairy tales… Continue reading Mythic Monday: Felicia and the Pot of Pinks