Happenings: The Blog

  • Daily Writing Prompt

    Tears of joy often strike us when we least expect them. They are moments of pride and joy that are mixed with the resignation that what is happening in this moment will likely never happen again. A pinnacle or gateway separating your life in to a before and after. My tears today start with socks.

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  • Daily Writing Prompt

    A long time ago I was in the boy scouts and the motto goes “Be Prepared”. I’d love to have something profound to be prepared with here but I have very few things that I take with me daily. Everyone has phonekeyswallet, but I bring along with me something for everyone. I call them go

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  • Daily Writing Prompt

    I want my blog to be a stepping stone for people. A lot of people lack the will to make that move “off the couch” so to speak. We smile at the things others create and the little green bone of jealousy rears it’s ugly head. We want that. We want to showcase our ideas

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  • Daily writing prompt

    What strategies do you use to maintain your health and well-being? Talking about health will be a part of the main blog but I’ll give tastes from time to time in the writing prompts. To be honest my health isn’t amazing. It needs to be better and that starts with my weight. I’m too heavy

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  • Daily writing prompt

    This one is an easy one. My future plans are right around the corner. I guess you could say I’m in my Travel era? I’m heading to see quite a few sights in Cali, and one of the sights to see is Ms. Taylor Swift! I’m heading to the eras tour and can not be

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  • Daily writing prompt

    What would you change about modern society? There are a lot of good things in this world and quite a bit wrong. While there are problems everywhere, I live in America and must say the thing that needs to change the most is the thirst for profit. Even though we drive Uber and care for

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  • Daily Writing Prompt

    Music can help the day really fly by. I am fortunate enough in my line of work to have complete control over the musical selection. That is until my toddler requests the freeze dance song. Then it’s up to DJ toddles to come up with the sick beats. My line of work of course is

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  • Daily writing prompt

    What’s your go-to comfort food? Ah the theme of food persists despite my diet! And the worst thing by far for any diet is of course comfort food. Some people love to dive in to sweets for a go to guilty pleasure, I however reach for the savory! Something soft and warm, with a bit

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  • Daily Writing Prompt

    I’m a product of the late 80’s and 90’s. My family board game night consisted of Trouble, Sorry, and Monopoly. Come to think of it I think the board game makers at the time were under a lot of pressure. As I got older, and a bit wiser, my family added games like Scrabble, Outburst,

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  • Hello World!

       Hello there, fellow adventurers of the written word! I’m thrilled to embark on this exciting journey with you through the ups and downs, laughter and tears, and all the quirky tales that life as a parent and aspiring writer has to offer. Welcome to “A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Book,”

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