Drifting through life

On Wednesdays, Elephant’s Child has been putting up a selection of six (or twelve) words which is called “Words for Wednesday”. She had taken over this meme from Delores , who is gradually retiring from the blogging world. This month the meme continues here, at Drifting Through Life Essentially the aim is to encourage us to write.     Each week we are given a choice of prompts: which can be words, phrases, music or an image.    What we do with those prompts is up to us:   a short story, prose, a song, a poem, or treating them with ignore... Some of us put our creation in comments on the post, and others post on their own blog.   I would really like it if as many people as possible joined into this fun meme.     If you are posting on your own blog - let me know so that I, and other participants, can come along and applaud. I’m hopeless at poetry so I always do a story. It’s a fun challeng...

from Finger-Lickin' Fifteen .   A Stephanie Plum novel by Janet Evanovich. "We'd ordered one pepperoni with extra cheese and one with everything they could find in the kitchen." " Grandma and Lula looked like Jack Sprat and his wife. Lula was all swollen up and voluptuous, busting out of her clothes, and Grandma was more of a deflated balloon. Gravity hadn't been kind to Grandma, but what Grandma lacked in collagen, she made up for with attitude and bright pink lipstick." Today's Thoughts: I have invented the sausage pancake! Last Monday I looked in the fridge and saw Sunday's leftovers, roasted potato and carrot. Oh Yum! how exciting. (*~*) But I didn't feel like cooking and these were already cooked....then I remembered I also had cooked chipolata sausages in the freezer, frozen in little baggies with two sausages per bag.  I got one baggie out and let them thaw while I sliced the vegetables and mixed up a smal...

On Wednesdays , Elephant’s Child has been putting up a selection of six (or twelve) words which is called “Words for Wednesday”. She had taken over this meme from Delores , who is gradually retiring from the blogging world. This month the meme continues here, at Drifting Through Life  Essentially the aim is to encourage us to write.      Each week we are given a choice of prompts: which can be words, phrases, music or an image.    What we do with those prompts is up to us:   a short story, prose, a song, a poem, or treating them with ignore... Some of us put our creation in comments on the post, and others post on their own blog.   I would really like it if as many people as possible joined into this fun meme.      If you are posting on your own blog - let me know so that I, and other participants, can come along and applaud. I’m hopeless at poetry so I always do a story. It’s a fun challenge…why not j...