catherines confessions

Welcome to the Romantic Friday Writers' fortnightly Writing Challenge, started and hosted by Denise Covey, L'Aussie , where participants share their own 300-400-word text - story or poem - on a given theme. This week's theme for Friday, 30th December, Challenge No. 28, is ' New Year's Resolution '. My text is written directly for this REW-challenge. Here is my text : ------- New Year's Resolution Anita Karlsson found a moment to jot down her thoughts: Dear Diary, Today is Friday the thirteenth of January 2012 and after several weeks of neglect I have finally found a space of time to put pen to paper and visit with you my friend since I was twelve. Imagine that! I have been writing to you for 37 years! I just recently had my forty-ninth birthday; next time I'll be fifty. I feel that this past year has been a crossroads for me. So much as happened. My cat met a feline-tabby-Casanova one very cold afternoon in February last year and gave...

Welcome to the Romantic Friday Writing Bi-Weekly Challenge, started and hosted by DeniseCovey_L'Aussie , where participants share their own 300-400-word text on a given theme. This week's theme for Friday, 30th December, Challenge No. 28, is ' Ties That Bind '. My text is written directly for this REW-challenge. Here is my text : ------- The House-Call She was only fourteen in 1941 , And had just taken one step away from childhood, When she fell ill with high fever and red spots. It was late December, And colder than ever remembered, There was war everywhere else except here. A very bad strain of an infectious disease spread throughout the town. Several children had already died. Although an unoccupied country, It was still not a good place to become ill. Water-pipes froze in apartment buildings, So tenants had no drinking-water. But their house was better built. There were no heaters in motor vehicles, Not even in ambulances, Should she be taken to ...

Photograph Copyright 2011 Christina Wigren Welcome to the Romantic Friday Writing Challenge, started and hosted by L'Aussie Denise , where participants share their own 300-400-word text on a given theme. This week's theme for Friday, 16th December, Challenge No. 27, is ' Sparkle '. My text is written directly for this REW-challenge. Here is my text : ------- Sparkle 'Let's bow before we begin. Hold your violin under your right arm, and let the bow hang from your index finger. One - two - three.' Mrs Nichols and her pupil, Sara, bowed to each other. Sonja Nichols and my son, Erik bow to each other before their lesson: Photograph Copyright 2011 Christina Wigren Then the teacher took out a large toy dice and gave it to the pale blond seven-year-old: 'One, three or five, I choose; two, four or six, you choose'. Sara threw the dice and it turned up three. 'Let's play Twinkle. Shall I play the violin or the piano?' ...

Welcome to the Romantic Friday Writing Challenge, started and hosted by L'Aussie Denise , where participants share their own 400-600-word text on a given theme. This week's theme for Friday, 2nd December, Challenge No. 26, is the image of the snowy, wintery, vaguely Christmas-like, cottage-in-the-forest-landscape ' Blue Christmas ' at the head of this post. My text is written directly for this REW-challenge. Here are L'Aussie Denise' instructions: From now on I'll be running RFWer alone. It's a huge task, yet lots of fun. However, looking at the long-term, I feel weekly posts are too much for me to sustain if I want to achieve other writing goals. I want RFWer to continue, so this is what I've come up with: For a trial period, at least until the end of this year, Romantic Friday Writers will become a monthly, rather than weekly blogfest. There may be special themes from time to time as well. There will usually be guest posts...