That, my friends, is a hedgehog, an animal I've come to cherish, adore, and relate to on the highest of spiritual levels since obtaining my own as a pet, my prickly pear Stella Luna. Before taking in one as my own, I felt like a hedgehog could easily fit into my collection of totem animals, …
Tag: writing
To Write Or Not To Write: Which Is Right?
Don't worry, this early in the morning I had to put careful thought into this title. I wanted to post today due to a trip my husband I will be making tomorrow throughout the weekend; Jekyll Island, Georgia, and no, we're not meeting a Mr. Hyde. My coworkers think they are clever for coming up …
Walk Out To Stand Up
Teachers are either the unsung heroes of our life's saga or the motivating villains we can't wait to prove wrong. I've had many of the first but a few of the latter, but I still learned from all of them. The good teachers, the ones who don't only help you understand what's written on the …
Heights and Horcruxes
They say do something that terrifies you every day. I don't know who "they" are or where they get off on giving this suspicious piece of advice but we all have to admit when you encounter a situation that speeds up the heart and spikes your blood with jittery adrenaline, it reminds us how alive …
Short Stories Galore
Anne Lamont writes in her how-to-write book, Bird by Bird, (if you haven't read this, find it NOW, one of the most important books I read about writing) that the only thing we can do to write is to get started, no matter how shitty the first draft is, because all first drafts are essentially …
Not a Choice, But a Calling
Good morning, Lovelies, or afternoon/evening, whenever you find it fit to crawl out of bed on a Saturday. Doing a little bit of a mental getaway in the town of Roswell, GA, while the husband is doing a bit of clinic work for his job. Offered for me to keep the car, to go …
The World of Abigail Rose 