Relocate—The Witness Protection Program

December 5, 2017.Reading time 6 minutes.

The Daily Post prompt—RELOCATE This was the part about meeting people that Lizzie found difficult. No matter how much she told them, they always wanted more. Where are you from? What side of town? What schools did you attend? They didn’t need the details of her life, but if she didn’t share, they assumed there […]

Chicago’s Picasso

December 4, 2017.Reading time 3 minutes.

The Daily Word prompt—PATINA https://dailypost.wordpress.com/prompts/patina/ Fifty years ago when Pablo Picasso’s gift to the City of Chicago was unveiled, columnist Mike Royko described the tepid applause from a disappointed crowd of VIPs. According to Royko, “some people just stood there, frowning or blank-faced. It looked like “a giant insect that is about to eat a smaller, […]

My NaNoWriMo Experience

December 1, 2017.Reading time 2 minutes.

Hi Everybody! On November 1, I wrote a headline wondering if I could write a book in a month. https://atomic-temporary-95632825.wpcomstaging.com/2017/11/01/mystery-can-i-write-a-book-in-a-month/ Well, the answer is, No! NaNoWriMo is over and I only wrote 33,887 words. NaNo’s requirement was 50,000. I could have pretended to be a college student and taken NoDoze; drank endless cups of coffee and […]

NET NEUTRALITY ADVOCATES PLAN PROTESTS FOR DECEMBER 7 AT VERIZON STORES

November 25, 2017.Reading time less than 1 minute.

PAY TO PLAY? Writer JoAnn Chateau informs us of: an effort to dissolve internet protections the protests to keep the internet free for all of us! The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is expected to announce the dissolution of Net Neutrality protections on December 14, 2017. In response, Net Neutrality supporters are staging a nation-wide protest […]