by Robin | Jan 10, 2012 | Faith, Personal, Writing
there is this thing about me i wish i could change: my skin is too thin. you can almost see it, flesh stretched over frame, opaque…translucent. how can those things be when they're seemingly opposite? i've tried to change. i've tried not to care....
by Robin | Jan 6, 2012 | Faith, Personal, Writing
Ten…twenty years ago I was a lion. Loud, proud, a conqueror. I knew things. I was sure and strong and bold and confident. I'd invite you in but I controlled the distance; you just didn't realize that. Something about my roar...
by Robin | Dec 15, 2011 | Blogging, Writing
"Feed me, Seymour!" I'm channeling Audrey II from Little Shop of Horrors except ~ ~ I'm screamin' "Read me, Y'all!" ~ this post has nothing to do with gigantic blood-sucking, vampire plants, ~ and I've never actually seen the...
by Robin | Oct 22, 2011 | Blogging, Sponsored post, Vicks VapoRub Bloggers, Writing
Although I have no way of calculating percentages, I know my readership is comprised of both bloggers and non-bloggers. One of the most-common questions I'm asked by those who know me outside of the blogging worlds is "Do you make any money...
by Robin | Jul 12, 2011 | Personal, Writing
It caught me by surprise last night; a sense-memory so strong it transcended time. Sipping well water from a silvery dipper, dented and pocked, drawn from a bucket that had plunged into midnight deep, a mystery as fresh and wonderful to me as new birth. I...
by Robin | May 6, 2011 | Advice, Personal, Writing
Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them. ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne It was the first honors class I took in...