Saturday, November 3, 2018

Weekend Writing Warriors #8sunday


Welcome to Weekend Writing Warriors, the weekly hop for everyone who loves to write!  Sign up on the website:Wewriwa.com and share an 8 to 10 sentence snippet of your writing on Sunday.


No one likes it when their family life changes.  This is particularly hard for the Radtke's.  A troublesome girl named Tracey enters their lives and the children are an endless journey to make sure this girl doesn't get into any further trouble or cause their parents to lose their fostering license.  These are snippets from my second novella in the series, "Oh Tracey."

Last week's entry
I’m too young to have an ID, I had joked with at him at the time and threw him one of my dazzling smiles. “Or, or or..” I said to Zion,"maybe her Mom used to work at a liquor store. Yeah, that’s it, maybe her Mom took the ID’s instead of giving them back."
“Do you think that her mother is really that malicious that she wouldn’t try and return them?”
"Who knows. People have their collections. Don’t you have a collection of Cracker Jack prices in a box in your dresser?

This Week's entry
Zion looked at me with this face that said, And what have you been doing looking in my dresser? As if he had something more incriminating to hide in there. He was thirteen not thirty.
“Sorry,” I said. After the silence between us had been mounting.
“Don’t ever go in my drawers again, Amelia."
I felt for a second that our long lasting sibling friendship may have been coming to a grinding halt, but then he just bent down and picked up a pile of leaves and ran over and dumped them on me. I didn’t even move. I wanted him to have his little revenge if it meant we could still be detectives together. I laughed and pushed him instead.




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Saturday, October 27, 2018

Weekend Writing Warriors #amwriting #amjoy


Welcome to Weekend Writing Warriors, the weekly hop for everyone who loves to write!  Sign up on the website:Wewriwa.com and share an 8 to 10 sentence snippet of your writing on Sunday.


No one likes it when their family life changes.  This is particularly hard for the Radtke's.  A troublesome girl named Tracey enters their lives and the children are an endless journey to make sure this girl doesn't get into any further trouble or cause their parents to lose their fostering license.  These are snippets from my second novella in the series, "Oh Tracey."

Last week's entry

"In what scenario would Tracey have had that could lead her to having that many ID’s?" Zion asked.
"I don’t know, maybe her mom used to work at a Drivers license station."
"Yeah, that’s it, " said Zion.  It said in Tracey’s journal that her mom had several odd jobs. Even it said she worked at the YMCA, you know how people are always handing over their ID’s and then forgetting them. She had probably collected a dozen or so of them from the lost and found."
I thought about my own dad taking us to the Civic center and taking out his ID. The attendant looking down on us from his place at the counter and saying to me, And where’s your ID missy?

This week's entry
I’m too young to have an ID, I had joked with at him at the time and threw him one of my dazzling smiles. “Or, or or..” I said to Zion,"maybe her Mom used to work at a liquor store. Yeah, that’s it, maybe her Mom took the ID’s instead of giving them back."
“Do you think that her mother is really that malicious that she wouldn’t try and return them?”
"Who knows. People have their collections. Don’t you have a collection of Cracker Jack prizes in a box in your dresser?

Readers, please comment below.

Saturday, October 20, 2018

Sunday Post #amwriting #amjoy




The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted  @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news~ A post to recap the past week on your blog and showcase books and things  received. Share news about what is coming up on our blog for the week ahead. See rules here: Sunday Post Meme



LOOKING FORWARD TO OCTOBER

This Thursday I had a great time at Nautilus Theater.  There was a Halloween Performance and the actors were sneaking behind the audience and marching and making loud noises.  The performance was basically about a giant who snatches humans and attaches them to his back to make them servants-FOREVER!
How scary! And the sounds effects, along with busting balloons and flying benches was quite frightening.  In fact, I've been to many theaters across Minnesota- but this is the first time I've been scared.  It's a rare treat because I don't know if I'll make it to a haunted house this year on account that October is nearly over and a family member has to have ACL surgery.
Readers, if you want to comment-do so at the bottom of this post.


CURRENTLY

Reading: One Small Thing by Erin Watt, Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty,

Listening:Lost for Words by St. Aubyn, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami, The Emperor of Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee, 


Watching: Japanese Movies


Weekend Writing Warriors #8Sunday

Welcome to Weekend Writing Warriors, the weekly hop for everyone who loves to write!  Sign up on the website:Wewriwa.com and share an 8 to 10 sentence snippet of your writing on Sunday.


No one likes it when their family life changes.  This is particularly hard for the Radtke's.  A troublesome girl named Tracey enters their lives and the children are an endless journey to make sure this girl doesn't get into any further trouble or cause their parents to lose their fostering license.  These are snippets from my second novella in the series, "Oh Tracey."


Previous entry

After reading what I had.  I came to the decision that Zion and I would just have to explore Tracey's purse, the one we received from the owner of Shinder's hobby store who said Tracey left it at the mall by mistake.
I went to get the purse where I hid it in my backpack and flipped the purse over.  I didn’t regret it. Out poured about twenty ID’s, all with faces of strangers looking back at me as if to say, 'yes, you found us, now what?'
Later in the evening, Zion and I had to do some mission work at the church.  I picked up a rake and raked as fast I could while talking to Zion. "Look, those Id’s could have came from anywhere. They may have just been a sort of collection."

This week's entry

"In what scenario would Tracey have had that could lead her to having that many ID’s?" Zion asked.
"I don’t know, maybe her mom used to work at a Drivers license station."
"Yeah, that’s it, " said Zion.  It said in Tracey’s journal that her mom had several odd jobs. Even it said she worked at the YMCA, you know how people are always handing over their ID’s and then forgetting them. She had probably collected a dozen or so of them from the lost and found."
I thought about my own dad taking us to the Civic center and taking out his ID. The attendant looking down on us from his place at the counter and saying to me, 'And where’s your ID missy?'

Friday, October 19, 2018

Come see Impossible Salt's Heartless @NautilusMT




















Impossible Salt's Heartless

Public
 · Hosted by Impossible Salt

Details
Nautilus Music-Theater
308 Prince St, Ste 190, Saint Paul, Minnesota 55101 
Tickets
app.arts-people.com

Oct 20,26,27 8pm-9pm

What could cause a creature as fearsome as a giant to remove his own heart from his body?
What becomes of him without his heart? And what becomes of his heart without him?

These questions inspire Impossible Salt’s beautiful and haunting exploration of this ancient tale, known as “The Troll With No Heart in His Body” in Norway, “Koschei the Immortal” in Russia, “Punchkin the Magician” in India, and by still other names in Scotland, Hungary, and elsewhere. Even (or perhaps especially) in the United States in 2018, the specter of a monster made invulnerable by his own unthinkable actions continues to captivate us, and demands our attention.

Revived for the Halloween season, HEARTLESS is Impossible Salt’s 

Saturday, October 13, 2018

Sunday Post #amwriting #amjoy



The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted  @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news~ A post to recap the past week on your blog and showcase books and things  received. Share news about what is coming up on our blog for the week ahead. See rules here: Sunday Post Meme


LOOKING FORWARD TO October

This week I've been on this audio book binge, searching and listening like crazy.  It was my birthday last Sunday so I guess I deserve to binge a bit.  It started all started with Haruki Murakami's, Sputnik Sweetheart and then Janet Evanovich.  Then I perused my library for humorous audio books and came across Lorrie Moore and Timothy Hallinan's work.  I listened to this one book, Act of God, by Jill Ciment and it that had to do with this character who was an actress and she lost her apartment to mushrooms and mold and people wearing Hazmat suits had to come and clear it out.  She also had a homeless woman sleeping in her tiny closet and the concept for the novel was quite intriguing.  
Finally, yesterday I started listening to The Ocean at the End of the Land by Neil Gaiman. Now, I've tried to read a lot of Gaiman's work but this is the first one I really liked. His work is poetic and it's got this rhythm and tone that no one could ever mimic.

Readers, if you want to comment-do so at the bottom of this post.


CURRENTLY

Reading: Every Story is a Ghost story: The Life of David Foster Wallace, Bark by Lorrie Moore, King Maybe by Timothy Hallinan, Consumed by David Cronenberg, Fishbowl by Bradley Somer, This is going to Hurt by
Adam Kay


Watching:  Chinese Movie:Them and Us










ON THE BLOG

Up Coming: Lots of interviews with screenwriters and musicians in October.  Stay tuned.

Hoping to also start a podcast.

Saturday, September 22, 2018

Sunday Post #amreading #amjoy



The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted  @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news~ A post to recap the past week on your blog and showcase books and things  received. Share news about what is coming up on our blog for the week ahead. See rules here: Sunday Post Meme

LOOKING FORWARD TO September


This week I've been busy running through the rain drops.  Yes, lots of rain in Minnesota.  It wouldn't be all that
bad if I hadn't had strangers seeking shelter in my abandoned car.  Wait, what?! You ask yourselves.  Yes, this did happen, four individuals were sitting in my car as I came outside two days ago.  What were they doing in there?  You ask.  Who knows. But one of the guys had the audacity to ask me: Is anything Wrong?  Yes, you're in my car, I said.








CURRENTLY 

Reading: Letters by Kurt Vonnegut, Norwegian by Night by Derek B. Miller, Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk, So Far Away By Meg Mitchell Moore, Just Kids by Patti Smith, The World Goes on by Laszlo Kraznahorkai

Listening: Six Four by Hideo Yokoyama, The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood, Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut, Not a Sound by Heather Gudenkauf

Watching:  Nothing, too busy to watch anything right now.

ON THE BLOG

What Happened:

Saturday:Weekend Warriors post


Up Coming:
Saturday:Weekend Warriors 
Sunday:Sunday Post


Friday, September 21, 2018

#8Sunday, Weekend Writing Warriors

Welcome to Weekend Writing Warriors, the weekly hop for everyone who loves to write!  Sign up on the website:Wewriwa.com and share an 8 to 10 sentence snippet of your writing on Sunday.


No one likes it when their family life changes.  This is particularly hard for the Radtke's.  A troublesome girl named Tracey enters their lives and the children are an endless journey to make sure this girl doesn't get into any further trouble or cause their parents to lose their fostering license.  These are snippets from my second novella in the series, "Oh Tracey."

Last week

I knew it was Tracey’s diary because on the back she scrawled in black marker her name.
Should I read it? Should I? I went back and forth wrestling with my conscience.  If I read it, I may be compelled to tell someone about it because it might be hard for me not to.  Then again, if I did read it, Tracey might find out and tell Mom and Dad.  I settled with the decision that yes I should read it, she could be in trouble. On the first page it read:
Readers beware.

This week

Reading this could mark the end for you.
I should have started from the front but I thought I would start with the very last entry and then page through it at random.

Dear Diary

I have yet to understand everything there is to know but I do believe grandma’s got a few things in her room she’d like give me when she meets her end of her life.

I paused after reading that because it must have been the saddest thing I ever read in my life.
I feel as though Grandma may want me to have these things because she was going through the house and pointing to items and telling me to write them down. She also asked if I’d want any of them.
She listed her grandma’s things in bold letters, like she had painstakingly went over each letter again and again. Back lit camera, Andrea Television, Pincor Power lawn mower, potato masher, nut chopper, Nikkio Rotary grinder. Ten pairs of slacks, one dress, several stockings.

 Dear Diary,
This ends the list of everything grandma wants to keep. I’ve been meaning to tell you that I’ve met an interesting group of people.
They shall remain nameless on account that someone may read this diary and I will be putting myself into jeopardy.

Readers, please comment below. 

Sunday, September 16, 2018

Sunday post #amjoy #SundaySweet @ChioneQuintet


The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted  @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news~ A post to recap the past week on your blog and showcase books and things  received. Share news about what is coming up on our blog for the week ahead. See rules here: Sunday Post Meme

LOOKING FORWARD TO SEPTEMBER


This week I read the novel "Sourdough by Robin Sloan and loved it.  I mean it reminded me of books like: Eat, Love and Pray by Liz Gilbert and Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, by Gail Honeyman, and A Year of Pleasures by Elizabeth Berg, just to name a few.  
There is something about eating and self discovery that is so addictive.
Of course there's always things to be grateful for.  I'm grateful this week that the weather is still nice in the Twin Cities, that I was able to buy a functioning car, that I have people to share my writing with and family all around.
Yesterday, I received a great treat while visiting the Dakota library. Twin Cities-based quintet was there and brought their woodwind instruments.  It was literally music to my ears as I sat down to read some books.

Readers, if you want to comment-do so at the bottom of this post.


CURRENTLY

Reading: Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart, Neverworld Wake by Marisha Pessl, Dangerous Girls by Abigail Haas, The House at the Edge of the Night by Catherine Banner

Listening: 

The Best Day Ever by Kaira Rouda, Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Dennis-Benn


Watching:  American Ninja Warriors



ON THE BLOG

Up Coming:
Saturday:Weekend Warriors 

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Sunday:Sunday Post


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Saturday, September 8, 2018

#8Sunday, Weekend Writing Warriors

Welcome to Weekend Writing Warriors, the weekly hop for everyone who loves to write!  Sign up on the website:Wewriwa.com and share an 8 to 10 sentence snippet of your writing on Sunday.


No one likes it when their family life changes.  This is particularly hard for the Radtke's.  A troublesome girl named Tracey enters their lives and the children are an endless journey to make sure this girl doesn't get into any further trouble or cause their parents to lose their fostering license.  These are snippets from my second novella in the series, "Oh Tracey."

Last Week

She wiped at her face and picked up another energy drink from the floor before sitting on the couch across from me with a huff.
“You okay?” I asked.
“Fine,” she said.
I turned to look at the program on TV. A rerun of ‘Full House.’ Michelle Tanner was running in the room and saying, ‘You got to come here. You got to come here,’ and of course everyone came running: the dad, who was a widower, the uncles who strangely lived with the Tanners, and the sister.
I went upstairs to my room and saw Tracey’s diary on her bed. The cover was filled with about a hundred flowers connected to each other with vines and leaves. It had a wax seal finish that made it look shiny and on the side a six inch magnetic strip that helped clasp it close.

This week

I knew it was Tracey’s diary because on the back she scrawled in black marker her name.
Should I read it? Should I? I went back and forth wrestling with my conscience.  If I read it, I may be compelled to tell someone about it because it might be hard for me not to.  Then again, if I did read it, Tracey might find out and tell Mom and Dad.  I settled with the decision that yes I should read it, she could be in trouble. On the first page it read:
Readers beware.

Readers, please comment below. 

Saturday, September 1, 2018

The Sunday post, #amreading, #amjoy


The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted  @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news~ A post to recap the past week on your blog and showcase books and things  received. Share news about what is coming up on our blog for the week ahead. See rules here: Sunday Post Meme

LOOKING FORWARD TO september

Lots happened this week.  I joined a new writer's critique group in the Twin Cities.  It's been fantastic so far.  If there's any advice that I could give to a young writer, it's to be vulnerable and share your work.  When I think of some of the biggest artist out there:The Rock:Dwayne Johnson and great comedians like Gabriela Marquez and Kevin Hart-they got to where they are because they shared their work.  



Readers, if you want to comment-do so at the bottom of this post.


CURRENTLY

Reading:  The Knockoff by Lucy Sykes, The House at the Edge of Night by Catherine Banner, Problems by Jade Sharma, Girl Made of Stars by Ashley Herring Blake, The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer, The Hurricane Season by Lauren K Denton, Dangerous Girls By Abigail Haas

Listening: 

Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Dennis-Benn, The lost Heir, American Gods by Neil Gaiman,


Watching:  American Ninja Warriors



ON THE BLOG

Up Coming:
Tuesday:Interview with author Eliza Gordon (Here's a blurb about her newest novel: Dani has two go-tos for consolation: maple scones and a blog in which she pours her heart out to her celebrity idol. (Dwayne Johnson) He’s the man her father never was, no boyfriend will ever be—and not so impossible a dream as one might think.

Saturday:Weekend Warriors 

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Sunday:Sunday Post


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