Where The High Road Takes You

A warm welcome to Sharon’s Writers Tidbits, Jeremy Empie, DHtracybrinkman, and Tony “T-Bird” Burgess. It’s great having you join us! I stood outside this morning looking at a marigold plant with two blooms. One facing down, the other looking up. One looking tired and beat down, the other appearing to be filled with joy and…

A Life of Choice

The baseball game blared from a portable television and everything in my apartment reeked of cigarette smoke:  courtesy of a roommate for whom I didn’t harbor good feelings. I woke up one day to an iteration of my life that wasn’t pretty. Not much food in the pantry, all of my socks had holes in them,…

How Bright Is Your Future?

If you’ve ever taken a science class and studied rock formations, you know that it is possible to change the face of a rock, any rock over time, by repeatedly applying something. Water dripping in the same place on a rock will eventually, molecule by molecule, wear a path into that stone. The longer it drips,…