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Gillian’s Letter to Paul by Lindy Chaffin Start The happiest day of my life It’s late for me, ten-thirty on a Friday night and I’m standing in my bedroom folding clothes. It’s warm out. There’s a salty breeze blowing off the water through the window. It feels like rain. I hate doing laundry. lots of…
Dreams of Yesterday by Sandra Elzie writing as Sandra McGregor Surely life wasn’t over at twenty-nine. Caroline stood on the knoll, the wind whipping fine strands of her shoulder-length, gold-streaked red hair into her face. It seemed only yesterday she had built sandcastles using a rusted one-pound coffee can and her mother’s garden trowel. Her…
It’s June 3rd. The week is over. It started as a challenge for me as this was to be the first week my four and a half year old daughter would be home from school, with me, while I was working. I started a nine hour a day job back in March with the perk…
By Lindy Chaffin Start When writer’s block sets up camp in your soul and refuses to leave, it’s only natural a writer find another way. My other way comes in the form of Letters to My Daughter. Mind you, they are housed in a black leather-bound journal, but they begin with a date and “Dear…
Oh, the dreaded Spring Break. That moment in the year when work must stop in order to entertain children for a week while their teachers wile away the hours on a beach in Tahiti, or so we think. But, for the single mom, Spring Break means something different every other year – a week apart…
