Spare change in the jar — How full is your jar of change? How many jars, bottles, or cans do you have? Are any of them full? Why, honestly, do we collect change? As I unpacked boxes during my move I found an abundance of coin collections. Not rare coins but simple everyday pennies, nickles, dimes…

Arriving at the station of change — With one of my favorite pubs (Promptly Written) closing its doors, my morning coffee muse took me on a train ride of emotions. You know the ones. They swirl in the whistling winds of change, sometimes so loud they drown out all the other plans. …

Present moments in our own backyard — On the Yellow Brick Road I call life, I travel my path of spiritual homecoming rather than an awakening. It is a path of learning to believe in myself as I (and so were you) was born with the innate power and energy to accomplish miracles. …

The powerful feminine energy I needed — Being born in January of 1961, I wasn’t old enough to experience the beginning of an era dedicated to Woodstock, the Haight-Ashbury, or ‘free love.” My birth as an Aquarian, on the beginning cusp, fueled an inner pull toward an Age dedicated to my astrological path. …

A beautiful place to visit — Grandma, why do people die? Where do they go when they are no longer here with us? Can’t they just stay with us forever? Well, angel, they stay with us forever. They go to the empty chair hotel. It is a grand place. Pillars of gold and silver stand at…

Word a Day Poem dice rolling gamble mediterranean start baltic to boardwalk community chest of chance passing go if not in jail round and round the square decorated cardboard game silver winged shoe walks colorful properties lined green houses to red hotels click clack music tracks reading railroad memories play soft in…

November Six Word Photo Story Challenge: “Collecting Smiles” — “All that glitters is not gold.” If you know me, you know that the philosophy behind the Ruby Red shoes and the Wizard of Oz are my visual mantras. I’ve always known things, I just had to believe them for myself. My Ruby Red converse always make me smile. Adding a little fun with the striped…