Five Minute Friday: Song

So, this week, I decided to participate in the Thursday night #fmfparty on Twitter.  Crazy!  I learned two things:  I don’t think or read fast enough to follow it, and five minutes goes really fast when you’re falling asleep. (So…short post follows.)  Five Minute Friday is a chance to write for five minutes flat and [...]

Five Minute Friday: Comfort

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It’s Friday, y’all.  Five Minute Friday.  This week, Lisa-Jo’s writing about “comfort,” and I thought I’d join in.  Visit her site to participate!   This Mother’s Day, I will sit in a church service with two squirming girls, little miracles who daily remind me of God’s grace and his goodness.  Beside them will be an [...]

Five Minute Friday: Brave

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Today’s Five Minute Friday topic is “Brave.”  Visit Lisa-Jo’s site and join in!  Even if you’re like me and your five minutes only produces two paragraphs.  And a whole lot of fragments.  Because every needs me.  Now.  Happy Friday, y’all!     He dives headfirst into everything.  So brave it scares me.  Fearless and fast…that’s [...]

Five Minute Friday: Friend

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So, Five Minute Friday turned into almost Fifty Minute Friday today.  Don’t you just love interruptions? When I saw the topic this week, I knew there was only one person I could write about.  Read on and you’ll see why…..   If I look far enough back, I might have memories before I had her [...]

Five-Minute Friday: Here

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    Five Minute Friday. Each week on Lisa-Jo’s blog, people gather to write for five minutes…no editing, just writing.  Words flowing freely.  And then, they share those words and encourage each other.  This weeks’ topic?  Here. Here goes:   Friday morning and the kids are up early despite having one in the emergency room [...]

Five Minute Friday: Change

It’s Friday, and five minutes is about all I have these days so I thought I’d join the Gypsy Mama and write with all I’ve got in the time I’ve got.  Jump on over there and join us!  One-handed typing is welcome. Can you tell? Today’s topic?  Change.  Here goes: My days may seem monotonous, [...]

Five Minute Friday: Here

It’s Friday, and five minutes is about all I have these days so I thought I’d join the Gypsy Mama and write with all I’ve got in the time I’ve got.  Jump on over there and join us!  One-handed typing is welcome. Can you tell? Today’s topic?  Here.  Here goes: We’ve lived here for six [...]

Five Minute Friday: Enough

It’s Friday, and five minutes is about all I have these days so I thought I’d join the Gypsy Mama and write with all I’ve got in the time I’ve got.  Jump on over there and join us!  One-handed typing is welcome. Can you tell? Today’s topic?  Enough.  Here goes:   Sometimes I feel I’m [...]

Five Minute Friday: Expectation

When you haven’t blogged much in months, sometimes that only thing you can do is just jump in….like into the deep end of a cold swimming pool…just get it over with already, you know?  And, it occurred to me that the best way to do that today is to join The Gypsy Mama on Five [...]

Five Minute Friday: Gentle

So, on Fridays, I generally lurk around TheGypsyMama.com, reading what others say in five minutes flat, thinking if the week’s topic says something to me, I MIGHT participate.  Most times I don’t.  You see, the perfectionist in me REALLY likes my backspace button.  I mean, REALLY.  Without that button, there’d probably be no blog.  But [...]