Alice Gerard

Today’s blogging challenge is to write about plastic shopping bag. Well, it’s supposed to be a gratitude, but, honestly, I can’t find very much about plastic shopping bags that I like. Plastic shopping bags were invented in the early 1960s by a Swedish engineer named Sten Gustaf Thulin. Those bags are made from a material

Note: Today’s blogging prompt is “acceptance,” and it came from Lorna MacDonald Czarnota. This morning, at church, the choir sang “Holy Ground,” in four-part harmony. It felt so good to sing that. Harmony is everything. It gives shape and color to the song and makes it feel whole. You can sing anywhere, even in sad

Today’s blogging prompt comes from my friend Lorna MacDonald Czarnota, who writes a gratitude post every day on Facebook. Today, she posted one word, “family.” I asked Lorna if I could use some of her gratitude posts as blogging prompts, and she very graciously said yes. I think about family often and about what the

Today is the last day of the January version of the Ultimate Blogging Challenge. The challenge was to write 31 blog posts for the month of January, and this is blog post number 31. This is the first time, since I started participating in the Ultimate Blogging Challenge, that I have actually completed the challenge.

When I originally got my freelance journalism gig with the Island Dispatch in 2007, I was told that, not only was I to write articles, I was also to take my own photographs. Oh, I wasn’t sure about that. When I went to the journalism school at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri, I

Today’s blogging prompt is to share a photograph. Well, maybe two… or three… photographs of… the Village Inn! You know how, in every town, there’s a locally owned restaurant where the food served is scumptious? People who live in the town know all about it, and they take their friends and family there. But people

It is time for a fractured fairy tale! Once upon a time, there was a little house at the edge of town, near a great forest. A little girl and her mother lived in that house. They had a tiny garden but they couldn’t grow enough food for their own needs. Every day, the girl

Today’s blogging prompt is to tell a story. So, today, I will bring us back in time to 2008. That summer, I was still trying to regain the strength that I had lost when I contracted a nasty case of pneumonia in late 2007. And, if you’re thinking what I think that you’re thinking (which

Today’s blogging prompt was write about me, with the title, “A day in the life of Alice.” And, now, I have writer’s block! Who ever thought that I would have writer’s block when I’m talking about… me. Especially when the story is written in chronological order. I may as well get started at the beginning,

Oh no! Where is the snow? Today, I went to the Grand Island Welcome Center for the Flurry Festival. The Snow Bearswere nowhere tobe seen today! It was supposed to be a festival of snow, with a snowshoe hike and the construction of Snow Humans. Unfortunately, Mother Nature had other ideas. She gave us rain,