Change Is Constant

Did I tell you?  I thought I did.... 💭 No?  👎 Okay,  I will tell you now. I am a Toastmaster.🗣  Have you heard of Toastmasters?  I had no idea what it was, I just followed a Meet-up post I saw on line. I knew where I was going, the meeting was in a nursing home I drove past every day. I entered the door, signed in and followed the signs with arrows; right, left, bare left, right, and there it was.  The door to the Toastmasters meeting.  I was debating if I should enter the room, and I decided to go in.  How bad could it be? If I don't like it, I will not leave, I just will not return.   I was welcomed by all the members, and I felt comfortable from the start.  When it came to the first prepared speech, the Toastmaster presented a rendition of "The Glass Managree." She was amazing. BUT: I said to myself, if I have to do that, I am out of here.  The next speech was a story type and I relaxed.   I returned the next week, and I...

 Change is Constant As the heat continues in North Carolina, United States, and other parts of the world, my thought are looking to the future. Not the future of the world, I am not that philosophical.  I am not the person that get upset when summer ends. I would rather be warm than cold, but I would rather be a tad bit chilly and have to put a sweater on, than to be a bit warm.  Do you follow that logic?  i am longing for the day of pumpkin spice lattes and cider doughnuts.    As the fall season slowly approaches these words come to mine.  Back in the 1960's, I enjoyed the song, Turn, Turn, Turn by the Byrds, written by Pete Seeger. When I discovered where the lyrics came from I enjoyed the song even more.   Ecclesiastes 3    King James Version   To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is plant...

It has been a while since my last post.  I've been busy writing episodes for Kindle Vella, and wondering what my next story will be.  After twenty stories, the mind is getting tired of new ideas. I have a solution to that, and I will share it with you. The fictional town of Springdale, Iowa is where my first ten stories took place. I based it on an actual town in Iowa.  I used Google maps to view the streets and buildings.  When I describe the house that Karen and Cody lived in, I knew what the house looked like. It was two blocks from the hospital, and Cody walked to work.  I felt the town in my soul and it made my story a reality. When I describe Liz's drive to work at a casino, I saw the road she traveled. My characters were very real to me, and I joked I was going to make cardboard cutouts for each of them and place them around my desk.  After trying a few other towns, I returned to Springdale for three stories.  I am comfortable in that town, and ...