It's Five Minute Friday when I link up with The Gypsy Mama .  Lisa-Jo gives us a prompt and we get to write for five minutes flat.  This week our prompt is: What did your mama do that makes her your mama? GO It was eight years ago yesterday since my mom died.  At times it seems like it was only yesterday and other days it seems like a long time ago. When I think of my mom I think of laughter.  No matter how much pain my mom was in she always found something to laugh about. She always had a joke to share and never wanted her pain to be the center of a…

It's another Faith Barista Jam and the prompt we've been given for today is the following: How has loneliness been a part of your faith journey with Jesus?  Ah loneliness.  Loneliness is a feeling I certainly don't long for.  In my futile attempts to change my state when I'm feeling lonely, I can easily reach for some instant gratification.  Come on; you know what I mean.  How do you handle lonely? A huge scoop of ice cream when you've been determined to lose weight Calling that person you know isn't a good influence but is so much …

I'm amazed by the power of social media.  The writing life can get pretty lonely at times.  This is the view I see in the very early hours of each morning.  Working full time and trying to live my life doesn't provide many extra hours to simply sit, write and be inspired.  So I get up very early in the morning and ...write. I was getting pretty down on myself the other day.  Have you ever had one of those days?  I didn't feel like doing anything or going anywhere.  Notice how I wrote feel .  I've been one who often says 'just do it a…