Some of us are sweet people; some of us are salty people. No, I’m not referring to personality, I’m referring to palate preference. Me, I’m a salty person. Give me a bag of potato chips over a piece of cake almost any day. (I had to insert the “almost” because there are some days when…
Month: July 2011
My Writing Life – Your Writing Life
I facilitate a local writing group. We meet once a month on a Saturday morning and share the pieces that we’ve worked on since we last met, time permitting we have a period of timed writing, and I share a writing prompt for the group to work on over the next month. Sometimes we laugh, sometimes we cry,…
The Good Life
I saw a billboard recently with a caption that said The Good Life scrawled beneath an image of a couple sitting in lounge chairs on the beach next to a turquoise water. The good life. I have been in just such an environment more than once and it was, indeed, a slice of the good…
Fourth of July – Hoye Style
The flags are up on our freshly painted house. One for Canada Day which we celebrated on July 1 in Calgary and one for Independence Day which we are celebrating today at home. It is a beautiful hot and sunny day here in the Pacific Northwest – just the way we like them! We’re just…
Strange Bedfellows
I’m still on vacation having a wonderful time with Laurinda and her family. Here is a post I shared in June two years ago. Not much has changed since then! Making my bed in the morning sometimes reveals some interesting suprises. When I throw back the quilt quite often little dog chews or toys go…