Lillian is hosting d’Verse Poetics Tuesday. You can join in here: Picture caption: Art by eight-year-old Azul What is support? (freestyle poem) What is support? Is it imposing your view on wh…

Denim – are you a fan? I must admit that I am. I have several pairs of denim jeans, in a range of shades and styles. I also have a denim jacket, a denim skirt and a denim dress! I can remembe…

In this month’s Tell Us About linkup, I’m reflecting on a season of birthdays: Mum’s 88th in Paris, beachside party fun, Ninja play, a treetop party, friends hitting 40, 50 and 80, my own December birthday, and a secret 70th surprise for the Mathematician.

Swiss Room — Another of the Nationality Rooms in the Cathedral of Learning at the University of Pittsburgh

After my big trip I felt oddly unmoored, so I stepped back from social media and stumbled on a Donna Ashworth poem I’d saved. I share it here, along with how it helped me remember that I am brave, loved, and enough—and maybe you are too.

Explore Sunday Stills with Deb’s World as she captures ephemeral skies and rainbows in stunning photos from her archives. What is ephemeral to you?

He couldn’t take his eyes off her. The most beautiful woman in the world moved through the crowds as if she didn’t belong to them—and perhaps she didn’t. What begins as admiration slowly shifts int…

Explore Sunday Stills with Deb’s World as she captures ephemeral skies and rainbows in stunning photos from her archives. What is ephemeral to you?

Explore ‘ephemeral’ in this Sunday Stills photo challenge post — double rainbows, coffee hippos, beach footprints, fireworks and how to join in.

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Welcome to the Sunday Stills feature which will be hosted by Hugh Roberts while Terri is away. Hugh has chosen Ephemeral for this week’s challenge. It’s a shame flowers only last a rela…

Explore the beauty of what doesn’t last: double rainbows, coffee-foam creatures, funhouse-style mirror reflections, beach footprints swept away by the tide, and fireworks fading into the dark. As your temporary Sunday Stills host, I explain how to join this week’s “Ephemeral” Sunday Stills photo challenge and share your own creative take.

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Meet corgi detectives Toby and Austin in Hugh W. Roberts’ “Murder in Evershot,” a cozy village murder mystery packed with red herrings.

End-of-September WOTY update: Deb embraces silliness, pauses social media, and swaps doom-scrolling for real-life joy, kindness, laughter and play.

Armenian Room — Happy Birthday Cathy #CL100 #cathedral100 #cathedraloflearning

Share the love of your home town in photos or another place you love!

NPS Portage — Visit the National Park Service’s historic site at Portage, Pennsylvania. A location central to the story in The Museum Murders – my latest novel.

Welcome to my best curated September Writer’s Tips. In this edition, Kathy Steinemann shares some alternative browsers to escape the A.I. bots, Writer Beware updates us on the latest author s…

Wrangling antlers, horns, hooves, and BOOKS, this week for the Sunday Stills Animal of the Month!

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A couple of months ago I went into Scratch studio in Liverpool to have an old song of mine remastered. The song, called The Last Fool on Earth, was recorded in about 1983. See, when I said old, I m…