Caption This!

Don't Blink—Day 7 Here's your Friday giggle and a challenge: caption this photo with as G a comment as you can (This blog is linked to my children's poetry site, I just want to keep things clean. Plus, it makes it more of a challenge). I can't think of anything rated PG, let alone G. …

I’d Like To Thank the Academy

It's very cool when award committees come to you. For awards you never even knew about, never even applied for. This has never happened to me before. It will probably never happen again. I am honored, grateful, and a little bemused. Does anyone use that word anymore? Well, I just did. Here's an excerpt from …

If Aaron Sorkin Worked At Hallmark

Don't Blink: Day 5 I believe that every day lived with laughter is a day well lived. Which is why I spent a few minutes of my morning writing silly greeting cards as if they were written by one of my favorite screenwriters. I shared my good news about Blue Mountain Arts with a few …

Maybe the fortune was for the Zhu Zhu pets.

This morning, you handed me my fortune. "All your hard work is about to pay off." Okay. I could look at this one of two ways. 1. Oh goody, my time has finally come! 2. This fortune is six months old. You found it at the bottom of my hot pink purse, which you emptied …

Don’t Blink Project: Day 1

365 Days of Living Deliberately How insignificant we seem; how trivial our troubles become, when our world is seen from high above the clouds. We are but a small speck in the palm of this great galaxy, yet each of us leaves our mark on every living creature we touch, talk to, type to— even …