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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,

I have enjoyed participating in this month’s Ultimate Blogging Challenge. I feel as if I have  benefited from the practice of blogging every day. At first, my opinion was that it would be hard for me to come up with ideas for each day’s post, even though prompts come with each day’s emails. Well, that

Today’s blogging prompt is all about talking about the theme song for my blog. I have to admit that my theme song changes constantly, depending on my musical tastes at the moment. Today, my musical tastes are all about a sense of wanderlust competing with an urge to stay in a familiar place. They are

Today’s blogging prompt is to write a top ten list. So that got me to thinking about its connection that that bucket list that I wrote a few days ago, on the nineteenth of January. Here is the link to that blog post, which was titled “Items from Alice’s Bucket List.” After the fact, I realized that

If you ever decide to run a trivia contest, here are a few fun facts about presidents throughout history that you could add under the category “presidential trivia.” The youngest person ever to be inaugurated as president was Theodore Roosevelt, at the age of 42 years, 322 days. The oldest person to be inaugurated as