Hackles Rising

I was sitting in my home office working on an article, when all of a sudden I heard a menacing, deep-throated growl. Getting up to investigate, I’m certain that I heard strains of scary background music from a horror movie as I told myself, “Don’t go in there!” Cautiously entering the living room, I saw [...]

Short Story/Flash Fiction Challenge

I think I’ve lived up to the challenge Rachel gave Writer’s Platform—Building Campaigners. The rules are: Write a short story or flash fiction story in 200 words or less, excluding the title. It can be in any format, including a poem. Begin the story with the words, “Shadows crept across the wall.” These five words will be [...]

Blood Tells

There have only been two times in my life when I’ve had blood drawn: 32 years ago when Len and I got married (it was a requirement back in the day), and this past November. Suffice it to say that both occasions were disastrous: The first time involved a Navy corpsman breaking the needle in [...]

Only Your Hairdresser Knows For Sure

You remember the popular Clairol “Loving Care” television commercial… Only your hairdresser knows for sure Everything we believe is based on our personal assumptions about reality. When Chicken Little got clunked on the head by an acorn, his perception was “The sky is falling!” Just like Chicken Little, our perception is our reality—even if it [...]