Sunshine Valley

The holidays      Doing 3 community dinners back to back was exhausting. And Evie couldn’t imagine how Della felt.       Thanksgiving and Christmas, Evie reached out to some of her old friends from her past life to help. Few people in Sunshine Valley wanted to give up their holidays with their family toContinue reading “Sunshine Valley”

Where’s Jesus?

The faith group that I worship with, we don’t have a physical church. I need to make sure this is known right off the bat.  In past years, we have done a Christmas tree contest. An independent judge picks which tree they like the best. This year, we’ve mixed it up. It’s like a treasureContinue reading “Where’s Jesus?”

Sunshine Valley 

Once there was darkness       Evie was still on a call when she opened the door for Dillon. She smiled, kissed him on the cheek, before returning to the kitchen.       He stood frozen, watchin’ her as (to him) she bounced off. The fabric of her shorts gently movin’ in the opposite directionContinue reading “Sunshine Valley “

berate

berate belittle talk down to sabotage  absolute torment torture bemoan revile cut to the quick stupid idiot berate scold abuse defame condemn  berate mock rage laughable nonsense  berate complain not good enough bash blister scorch scold  ridden down admonish  chasten gaslight all the negativity  berate really, that’s what you think badger beat up thrash lashContinue reading “berate”

Sunshine Valley

Reflection      Dillon had a random Wednesday off. With really, nothing pressin’ that needed to be done. Evie had a full day of appointments. He wandered up to the upper barn and sat with his back up against the weathered aged wood. First making sure not to sit in anything gross. Then stretched outContinue reading “Sunshine Valley”

The journey of learning

I have posted a few segments on my self-publishing journey. It’s not super easy to start with. But it seems to be my nature to always take the hard road.  There are some really great pieces of information out there. And of course, some not so great.  Two of my works, wasn’t showing up inContinue reading “The journey of learning”