by Laura K Curtis | Jun 19, 2015 | Stuff!
Undoubtedly, the most famous section of John Donne’s Meditation XVII is the following: No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a...
by Laura K Curtis | Jun 3, 2015 | Photography, Stuff!
A few pictures from my vacation and the day I got back. The peonies and hydrangea are in my yard, but the other flowers and the iguanas are from St. Martin. I have no idea what they are. I love the purple and white star-shaped ones with the succulent-looking leaves....
by Laura K Curtis | Apr 19, 2015 | Stuff!, Writing
Recently, I was talking to a woman I met several years ago at RWA. I don’t remember who introduced us or how we became friends, but even though we rarely see each other, even though on the surface we have little enough in common beyond being writers, we follow...
by Laura K Curtis | Jan 22, 2015 | Prompts 2015, Stuff!
One of the questions one of the prompts2015 contributors asked was: “If you could eliminate one thing from your To Do list without actually having to do it, what would it be? How would the task get accomplished?” That’s an easy one for me: Laundry....
by Laura K Curtis | Jan 15, 2015 | Prompts 2015, Stuff!
One of the things I wanted to do this year was to keep in better touch with my pals who follow the blog. So I reached out over social media and asked whether anyone else wanted to get together and write up some blogging prompts that we could all share. We came up with...
by Laura K Curtis | Jan 10, 2015 | Stuff!
I have learned, through years of therapy along with a fair amount of self-observation, that I am extremely susceptible to emotional manipulation. For example, I cry at the bloody Christmas ads where the kid comes home and makes coffee. Books do it. Movies do it....
