Marsha Ingrao – Always Write – Page 25 – Having fun blogging with friends

Wo Hing Chinese Museum and Taoist Temple in Maui, HI

Vacations are a great time to learn history. If you […]

Wordless Wednesday: My Poor Eyes

I could not photograph the fear in this poor pup’s eyes. Maybe you can sense the fear I felt from afar. At one point this careless girl let the paddle board float […]

Weekly Photo Challenge: Weight or Weightlessness

What an appropriate topic for this week’s Photo Challenge. I don’t […]

Google Tools: Picasa

As an author or photographer do you ever get stuck in the middle of a project, and your technology stops you dead in your tracks? When my Photoshop Elements 10 […]

Road to Hana: Exploring a Lava Tube at Black Sand Beach

Do you want to camp in Maui? Well you can’t. […]

POKE Tacos and the Need for a Strong Vocabulary

All six of us were hungry for hamburgers and Hula […]

Whale Watching Off the Coast Of Maui

Whale season in Hawaii is November through February. V doesn’t like boats, so I enjoyed whale watching with friends. Whales come here to lose weight, date and have children. Sometimes they […]

Personal Stories

Christmas Greetings

Christmas love can happen all year. This family gathering took place in Delaware in November when I visited my mom’s cousin, Hal. Marvin Awbrey sent me a series of children’s […]

Wine and Dining

Vince shocked me a few months ago when the announced as we drove to lunch in Visalia one beautiful October day that I didn’t like to cook. I had my […]

Cee’s Black and White Challenge: Wright’s Watertight File Cabinet

Generally file cabinets wouldn’t warrant a blog post unless you […]

Drawing Your Hand – Would You Choose a Chevy Cruze or an Audi?

For her post today Cathy Tenzo’s blog revealed her hand to the […]

Metal and Wood

Like pots that once hung from this metal rod around the fireplace in Wright’s Taliesin West bedroom, Wright’s mother hung onto her son – to excess from what I read. Our tour […]

WP Photo Challenge Eye Spy

Frank Lloyd Wright kept odd hours often working in the middle of the night and catching a cat nap during the day. He had a code so that his architectural […]

Enjoy Multiple Movies While You Vacation

“You’re kidding. You’ve never seen To Kill A Mockingbird?” my friend Jean said on the second evening of our vacation in Scottsdale, AZ. I interpreted that to mean, “On what uneducated, […]

Where DID We Have Lunch on Monday?

As you recall your trips, do you struggle to remember time markers anyway? My friend Jean and I spent at least thirty minutes one evening during our Arizona trip retracing our […]

Using Time Share Points – Scottsdale, AZ

My husband rarely admits envy, but I got a “jealous” […]

Which Works Better for You Deadlines Or No Deadlines?

I don’t know about other writers like you, but I find […]

Flying Across the United States Is A Great Time to Read

I could have watched movies if I had downloaded the […]

Did Kids Really Have Problems Growing Up in the 1970s?

Thank you for responding to my NaNoWriMo title poll. Forty-three […]

Personal Stories

Discussions About Answers to Hard Questions Like Race and Politics

It’s 2:27 a.m. here in Delaware. I’ve been visiting […]

Choosing a Title for Your Novel

Ten year-old Jenny Hatfield resents her dad for moving her family to the Southern end of the Willamette Valley to take a new job. She hasn’t lived in Pine Forest, Oregon […]

Where Were You in 1976? Whatever Were You Thinking?

I’m only one inconsequential person who lived through the 70s. […]

NaNoWriMo Progress

Sometimes I wonder what in the world convinced me that I could or even wanted to write. Yet, here I am at 4:43 in the morning drawn to my computer […]

Books You Must Put Down and Movies That Transport You Out of This World

To be honest, if I’m reading fiction, I can’t put […]

Word Press Photo Challenge: Treat

It’s a treat to thrash Bob — hard! In only two months I’ve gotten so much better at it. When I started fighting Bob, I could barely tap him in […]

Considering Your Costume Choices?

People enjoy Evengeline’s Costume Mansion in Sacramento year round, but I’d bet it’s packed today, the day before Halloween. You might be planning to wear a sexy costume like the mannequin […]

Five Easy Tips for Creating Blogs Someone Besides Your Mom Will Read

Do you have enough readers? This post is not for […]

Spanish Baby Liam & The Californian Bear

Manny’s brother and counterpart in crime, Lammy, has gone to live in Spain with baby Liam. I had to use Kalev’s dog leash on Manny to keep him at home […]

Photo Challenges

The Blur of Travel

We looked forward to our vacation in Sedona for weeks, and we’ve already been home for two days. What happened? Sights seemed clear enough when we were there. We stopped at a […]

Graceful Is As Graceful Does

You all know that I am the Klutz Queen of the Universe, but there are other kinds of gracefulness. Last week I looked around my yard where grace and beauty […]

Cows Suffer Sex Discrimination

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge is always great. This one is right up my alley, so to speak. A factoid: Do you see how they have paved a road across the lawn? […]

Reward: What Does It Mean To Me?

I think accomplishments reward me. Frankly there is no reward great enough to recompense a person for the amount of effort they put into a project. For example, why blog? Is […]

Iconic America: Bob’s Old Barn

Who doesn’t love old barns? It’s un-American to hate barns, the image of rural life that once predominated in this country. Today the golden hour arrived with dark gray ominous clouds in […]

Photo Challenges

Photo Challenge: Rule of Thirds

Rule of thirds challenges me unless I have a 9 grid overlaying the photo or viewfinder. Since I’ve never seen a viewfinder like that, I confess that these shots became […]

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: My Favorite Things Blackbirds

When Tule Fog hits the Woodlake Valley, the best thing […]

Do you need to lose weight? I do.

Eating out has always been the primary entertainment in my family. I like to eat, and I have a healthy appetite. When I was young my eyes were too big […]

Winter in Woodlake Valley

The scenes as I walked along Millwood Drive took my breath away. Maybe if I stayed in shape… Eventually my husband picked me up and we enjoyed the warm photoshoot together. While our eastern […]

Photo Challenge: Scale

On a scale of 1 to 10 with ten being the most organized and 1 being piled to the ceiling with recipes and newspaper clippings, I would give my writing area […]

Personal Stories

Klutz of the Year Award: The Art of Falling Without Breaking Anything

I have awarded myself the Klutz of the Year Award. […]

How to Write a Synopsis for Your Next Big Project: A Synopsis

A fallen ego maniac, I had the idea that because I […]

How to Write Essays to a Prompt for Tests, Work, or School

Sample Prompt: Explain a complicated process that you can do […]

Practicing Descriptive Writing Here – Brain Fog? – No, Real Fog!

It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great […]

Writing Description: What Are Your Tips?

Write posts on Word. Save posts often. Will I never learn? I deleted a picture from my blog post, and the entire post disappeared. Vince sells real estate. Yesterday I […]

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