Archive for December, 2010
In Flight There Is Freedom | Memoir
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In my response to this week’s memoir prompt, It Happened When…, I talk about a grim event in the World’s history and how I found hope when others were seeing blood… I have lived in and around the Dayton, Ohio area my entire life. Dayton, as you most [Read More]
In Iran and Appalachia | Memoir
It happened when the shah got deposed, or rather afterward. My mother said that the shah was one of the things they weren’t prepared for, she and Daddy. He was one of the reasons things went awry in the family businesses. Before that, evidently, we had been well [Read More]
Learning Christmas | Memoir
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In 1968, I was three years old. My mom was in a rough spot in her life — she was the wife of a Naval Corpsman stationed in Vietnam with a Marine battallion. He was gone for 13 months that time, leaving Mom totally in charge of 3 kids: ages 4, 3 and 1. She [Read More]
It Happened When… | Memoir Prompt
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As 2010 nears its’ end, I have to say, I am not that unhappy that it is almost over. It has been a rough few years and, like many others, I am more than ready to more onward and upward. During the holidays, it is not uncommon to look back on the year; it’s [Read More]
Little Girl Christmases (Visiting Jesus by Alaska Air)
My first Christmas memory is of shrieking and running across the room to my new walking doll. The grownups told me to stand back to back with her, and declared that she was taller. I am not sure if it was that year or the one after that I asked, “If Christmas is [Read More]
One More Year Until Christmas | Memoir
My Christmas memoir prompt response will actually bend the rules a bit and cover five, distinct Christmases… Christmas Day, 2010 is the Christmas that should be, but is a year away. This Christmas may be the toughest one I’ve faced since I was 11 years old, [Read More]
My Senior Mistakes | Memoir
This response to the memoir prompt of Missed Opportunities looks at a question I ask regretfully ask myself quite often… I have written volumes about what growing up was like for me; the cold war, alcoholism, racial tension, sexual abuse, and moving to a new town at a [Read More]
If Only… | Memoirs
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The call came at 3:32 AM, January 6, 2006: 8 years and 4 days after we had signed the papers to become owners of a golf club. I mentally took inventory of my kids and husband as I blindly reached for the phone in the darkness. Yes, they were all home, I was sure. The [Read More]
Christmas – Memoir Prompt
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In honor of the Christmas holiday this Saturday, this week’s memoir prompt is about Christmas. I know in my life Christmas has had many a metamorphosis over the years; what used to be the center of my celebration and the meaning as a young child is different today. I [Read More]
Cracked Mirror | Flash Fiction
Cracked Mirror was my first ever submission to the flash fiction site, Every Day Fiction. Unfortunately the story was rejected, and I would have to agree with the reasons why. I wondered when I put the fork in it if I should have held onto this one and turned into a longer [Read More]
Missed Opportunities – Memoir Prompt
We make decisions everyday of our lives — which fast food restaurant to patronize, what brand of coffee or toilet paper or which cable company will we opt for — none of which are life changing decisions. Yet, we all have made life changing decisions, good and [Read More]
Thanks Kim and Welcome Mandee | Memoirs
Extreme Writing Now has had the honor and pleasure of being prompted for memoir entries since July of 2010, thanks to the wonderful work of Kim Manley Ort. Kim’s prompts have been nothing less than thought provoking and fun. Kim is stepping down as the weekly memoir [Read More]
Theresa’s Sandy Claws
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This 55 word flash fiction piece is dedicated to one of my dearest Twitter friends, @mamatreelee, on her birthday. Happy Birthday, Theresa! She lost track of time. The warm sun, rhythmic wind and beach sand had much to do with that. The water, crystal blue as the sky, was [Read More]
Asthmatic Preachers, Blind Faith, and Fear | Religion Memoir
This is my response to the Religion Memoir call set upon us by Kim Manley Ort. Although many, many experiences have helped formulate my personal beliefs about organized religions, I can pinpoint two Sundays that collectively became the canvass which I painted my [Read More]
Awakening | Poetry
Poetry is once again coursing my veins as I become more in tune with the raw, primal emotions that spark and jolt my every breath. I seem to be the type that knows no middle ground, just one extreme or another. This piece is dedicated to the one person who seems to know how [Read More]
Completing The List | 55 Word Flash Fiction
A little Friday night 55 word flash fiction piece that speaks to those of us who live, and maybe die, by lists… “…rage, passion, self-defense, for the hell of it, sport, and last but not least, to end it all!” Tommy penned the last words just before he looked up [Read More]
