Writer Wednesday is a  Zoomers.ca feature where we issue a weekly open call on a particular theme or subject that our community of bloggers are welcomed to participate in.

If you're a blogger that's interested in getting a handle on your craft (or even connecting with an audience!) then this is definitely the challenge for…

A few years ago I met a young gal by the name of of Kristen Thomas Easley who also writes under the pen name of Naomi de Plume. Years younger than I, and political views separated by the size of the Pacific Ocean I consider her a…

You know the trouble with travelling in time is that in one of those movements of travel you had to die to complete the process necessary for time travel to continue.  Then your path in life is to not show back up in that period in time.Feeling better today.

Better than what?

Better than yesterday...

The specimen that we have acquired is one of the most unique we have…

Yesterday I read a short story written by Frank Stockton in 1882 that was mentioned on Susie Lindau's blog called…

Be forewarned, herein is written of the ravings of a madman. Ladies and gentlemen of delicate disposition are advised to avert their eyes.

The Personal journals of Dr. Thomas Braynfever, Director of the Royal Hospital for the Curiously Deranged, have been recently discovered . This document has shed some new light on the recently revealed final verses of “Paradise Lost”…

"Reply All Free-for-All" or RAFFA is when friends want to slack off at work by emailing each other on one continuous email. All members of the RAFFA put their email address on one email and write their message and press the "Reply All" button so that every member receives that email. Receivers "Reply-All" to the same email after typing their response, and after hours of doing this, email chaos will begin to ensue, much like a Free-for-All- Urban…

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When Poofy Dog first lived in the building, he was one heck of a Dapper Dandy. Poofy was mostly terrier mixed with a bit of this and some of that. Once upon a time he was better dressed that any fashionista with spiffy hats, coats, and quite frankly, a hairstyle that did not quite fit a…

Today, I sat here, in my room, pondering the meaning of life, wondering what I could do to make the world a better place to live, to change it on some small level, I decided to start a new project, a letter-a-day campaign, updates from me, to politicians.

I started today, this Monday, April 29th, by writing to the President of the United States.

I've written to him before and actually have gotten replies from him in letters sent to my home, mostly cease and…

My first book Menopausal Woman From the Corn had a funny story about the trials and tribulations of dying my hair called No, A Serial Killer Did Not Choose My Hair Colour!   It was a short tale of some…

Here lately, as if by magic, my mind has decided to write poetry, bad poetry, but poetry none the less.

My English comp professor would grade me INCOMPLETE if she had read half the stuff but who cares, she gave me an A + on a paper I wrote that was suppose to be on a 'true' person who had some meaning in my life.

The other papers, I wrote the truth and got a D -.

"Unbelievable, work harder on your realism...." she wrote on one paper, a place that…

Writer Wednesday is a  Zoomers.ca feature where we issue a weekly open call on a particular theme or subject that our community of bloggers are welcomed to participate in.

If you're a blogger that's interested in getting a handle on your craft (or even connecting with an audience!) then this is definitely the challenge for…

Ever since I got hit by that car, I’ve been seeing far too many doctors. Collar bone repair, and check-ups. Hip replacement. And check-ups. Cancer testing and surgeries. And check-ups. 

At the one-year point, my collar bone was declared healed.  My hip replacement is an experimental model so I have to go back every year for 7 years.  It is healed. They’re just concerned about possible problems.…

The New Meme of the Week-- "Tom Cruising"

A behavioral act of performing something a person may call chancy or jeopardous.

Ever wonder what Dad is doing after you leave…

The trip back to the gulag was filled with light conversation and I noticed that Barth was having some trouble breathing and moving.  It’s a strange dance with Barth because even though there was not perfection in his movements right now,…

Two days ago I finally threw out a drawer of items that have been with me for at least 33 years. I was desperately trying to keep these little Lycra memories but when the elastic disintegrated under my touch it was time to go to that Madonna landfill in the sky. During my retail reign, price was…

This parody (?) blog is done in response to "Zoomers Writer's Challenge--Time Traveling"

Dear Diary,

Had I seen all this coming I would have hooked me up with a time travel machine and fixed everything a long time ago. I should have listened to the tabloids when they…