The last prompt for the july Ultimate Blogging Challenge is to write a recap of the experience. So, here goes. And so…. we approach the end of the July 2026 version of the Ultimate Blogging Challenge. At midnight, I will post my monthly photograph of rabbits on Facebook because it’s good luck for the start […]
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part eight of the steampunk bear’s saga At a council meeting for the ravens at the base of the eighth mountain, one of the ravens volunteered to fight the Rusalka. A pouch of the potent herbs that the steampunk bear had collected was wrapped around the raven’s talons. The ravens gathered around their companion and
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Today’s prompt from the Ultimate Blogging Challenge is to talk about trainings that I’ve taken to help me in my craft, or to talk about trainings that I would like to take. For me, my best writing training didn’t come in a classroom, but in a book. The book is titled “Writing Down the Bones,”
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Today’s prompt from the Ultimate Blogging Challenge is to share a song lyric or phrase that has meaning to me. My song lyric comes from “No Place Like Home,” by Stephen Schwartz and Cynthia Erivo, which was part of the movie, “Wicked: For Good.” It it’s about the value of a space, of one’s homeland,
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Today’s prompt was to answer questions that you, my wonderful readers, ask over and over again. I have to admit that no one has asked questions, but several readers have expressed a fondness for Bearnacle Bear and his friends. So, today, I am going to tell you how the steam punk bear became mangled. One
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Today’s Ultimate Blogging Challenge prompt is to write about something that is fun. “What do I do in my personal or professional life that’s fun?” I enjoy anything that gives me a chance to escape the frustrations of daily life and helps me to reach beyond myself. One thing that I do is to participate
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This month, I took a four-session series of art classes at Starlight Studio and Art Gallery on sketchbooks. Starlight offers instruction for people who have disabilities. It gives them a chance to creatively express themselves in a supportive environment. Each session focused on a different topic. The really cool thing was that all art supplies,
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Today is the first day of the second Ultimate Blogging Challenge of the year. It’s also week thirteen of Inktober 52, and it’s day 39 of the 100-day art project. The theme for day 39 is “what you take away.” Here are some ideas of things that you could remove that you wouldn’t miss: comparing
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How do you express yourself in a time of fear? What do you say when your world has been broken apart by official pronouncements of us vs. them, and the them is really us? How do you catch courage? How do you listen and understand and hope when you feel that all hope has fled?
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Today, our small group of mice are safe on a little island that we have yet to name. We haven’t been here long. Maybe a week or two. A sweet young man who some of our friends met at the zoo helped us by ferrying us to this little island. I will tell our story
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