What a wicked, fun story! This: It used to be that she and her kind would turn these horrible princes into frogs, but the princesses had actually started kissing them to return them to their natural state!

what a great anecdote, @myjob -- working when everyone else is partying - but I'd say you chose the "better portion" and I love the image of gold in your hands (as opposed to the hangover and

I gave up on trying to be invited to holiday gatherings, or even creating my own. No one ever seems to be receptive. You too??? The smartest, most insightful, creative, and entertaining people I know are

A treasure in our midst goes unnoticed, unappreciated... people should be competing for the honor of who gets to have Stacey at their New Year's Eve party! The invites should pile in you should be debating

Attics - I love attics, I dream of attics! Unfinished, with wood beans exposed, the bones of a home, the top story, the place of potential. "Finished" attics are like finished basements, requiring

Love it! My 3 pieces of cast iron never get used. I store them inside the oven. Every single time I bake, they come out for a few hours, taking up space, then back into the oven they go.... I think I've

"As the funeral passed the market square, such a smell of fish was in the air..." Oh Senor Don Gato was a cat On a high red roof Don Gato sat He went there to read a letter, Meow, meow, meow

Raj!!!! How have I not been seeing you around Hive for so long? of course you know the healing talents of cats! you're that awesome. Gotta go find your Hive wall and start catching up....

What a great way to start life in the womb: hearing and feeling the rumble of a purring ginger tom! We should all be so blessed. :) As for the other brother.... sniff! .... alas, no vibrations to resurrect

It'll take more than a tuning fork to fix us. Send in the purring kittens! Ok, not a haiku, but mechanical objects - scientists seeking to create a purr box with the same frequency as a cat purr! - oh,

Thank you for the mention! I really need to revise that post and focus on the LESSON LEARNED part, but the news of my sister's diagnosis was just too recent, too raw. Just overhwelming. The time to eat

Thank you, and my heart goes out to you and your sister and all her family.

YES Thank you! My mom, accepting her Biblical "lot" in life, anticipating a better lot in her next life in heaven - "In my Father's house are many mansions; I go to prepare a place for you"

She wouldn't want me to know her life isn't as marvelous as she makes it out to be, I'm guessing. Pride - keeping up appearances - all that. But if she breaks down under all the pressure she tries to cope

Excellent advice - profound insight! - all writers and creatives need to hear this, and all people because everyone has a "narrative" and we do have "agency" - we are not pawns who

Carlynn, I'm unable to upvote or comment at peakd and ecency, so I'll say it here - shame on those uncles, and what a survivor your mom was, even if she didn't prepare for her husband's untimely demise.

Interesting paradox you pose here! what you see is most definitely what you're getting. And the more you look, the less you see. We're supposed to focus on the good and try to Not-See the not-so-good,

Not Lori's daughter, but the 21-yr-old daughter of Sister #5, whose name I've yet to mention. :) Yes, it's been crazy. My middle child has anxiety and panic attacks and only yesterday I learned they are

God bless your mother, and may she find a better doctor! Thank you for reading and commenting.

YES The plain little bird with the beautiful song is a living, breathing thing, not a mechanical object that glitters and produces noise on command. So much wisdom in one little folk tale. Today my sister