Facing my opponent

I am happy to have another story published. This is a Flash Fiction piece, published at 101words.com Here it is: Facing my Opponent Sweat cascades down my head as I peddle, one, two, three miles, uphill both ways. I race along on the treadmill to the beat of my iPod. My opponent’s picture, the one … More Facing my opponent

I bought a $7 pen because I always lose pens and I got sick of not caring. –Mitch Hedberg

Yesterday I posted quotes about candles, letting your light shine. One quote was from Mitch Hedberg: I wanted to buy a candle holder but the store didn’t have one, so I bought a cake. –Mitch Hedberg   I had never heard of him before, and then coincidentally* I saw another quote from him today on … More I bought a $7 pen because I always lose pens and I got sick of not caring. –Mitch Hedberg

More about candles

I ended yesterday’s post with a quote about candles. This morning I got an email with the same quote. So why not go down that road today? I realized that taking every meme I wanted to post would use up a LOT of time and space, so I will just list the quotations that struck … More More about candles

Sorting My Brain

Today is the kind of day where there are conflicting stories, conflicting goals, and questions I have no answers to. These kinds of days used to scare me, but now I realize this is a temporary state of mind and it will all work itself out. We stopped at our new house-to-be yesterday, and it … More Sorting My Brain

Friday, Oh Friday

It seems like that we now have chaos worldwide on a daily basis. Jesus told us this would happen.  Nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom.  Some have called for today to be A Day of Rage. Thankfully, the opposition has called for A Day Of Love.  Choose your side.  We are finally … More Friday, Oh Friday

Thursday Thoughts

Time seems to go faster these days; the weeks and years fly by. Mr. Porter and I are buying another house. Yes, after all the hard work of preparing the old house for sale, we are going to buy our “down-sized” home. I can’t give away too many details yet, as we are still shuffling … More Thursday Thoughts