Sharry Miller

Defining Success

Thane and I were talking in the hot tub the other night (sometimes I think the only conversations we have which aren't distracted by electronics and chores are in the hot tub) about success and the different ways success can be defined. The conversation was prompted by an interview I'd read in the most recent Quilting Arts magazine with Jill Rumoshosky Werner about her work. One of the questions asked her to discuss what she... Read more →

Growth

I collect quotes, quotes that inspire me, amuse me, or make me think. Somewhere I have a notebook that I've been jotting them down in, but it's location is eluding me right now. As a result, I have a pile of paper scraps with quotes scribbled on them, some long, some short, some on small sticky notes, some on long list pad pages. (I really need to find my notebook). For quite a long time... Read more →

At Home in Winter

“Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.” ― Edith Sitwell With blizzards raging on the East Coast and normal massive dumps of snow here in Valdez, the above quote seemed particularly appropriate. I hope that wherever you are this winter, you are having the opportunity to share time (and good food)... Read more →

Five Sentence Fiction - Purple

I'm cheating a bit with this week's Five Sentence Fiction prompt (purple) from Lillie McFerrin. I also needed to do my homework for the fiction writing class I'm taking through Gotham Writers' Workshop, so I decided to combine the two. My homework was to write a passage emulating one of eight authors. I chose to write the following in the style (I hope) of Ernest Hemingway. You can read how others interpreted purple by following... Read more →

The Language of Flowers

Mom loaned me a book while we were in Hawaii. Now to be perfectly honest, it was one I'd told her I wanted to borrow, and indeed had given it to her for Christmas because I wanted to read it, but that's beside the point. She finished it while we were in Hawaii and loaned it to me. Oh, yes, it was The Language of Flowers, by Vanessa Diffenbaugh. The main character is an orphan... Read more →

Visual Dare - Emerging

Angela at Anonymous Legacy seems to have an amazing ability to find very bizarre photos to use as prompts for her weekly Visual Dare flash fiction challenges. She coupled this week's photo with the word "emerging." Here's what I did with it. Don't forget to head to her blog to see how other people interpreted the prompts. The Library “What the hell?” I was kneeling on a rough stone floor. My palms were bleeding through... Read more →

Woodblock Printing

Valdez Museum Exhibit Poster Inspired by the Dale DeArmond: Nondalton Legends exhibit at the Valdez Museum and Historical Archive, education curator Faith Revell and Wendy Goldstein, director of the Maxine and Jesse Whitney Museum, taught a woodblock printing class last Saturday afternoon. I, of course, took advantage of this opportunity to try something new, and to buy a few new tools. Faith standing in front of two Dale DeArmond prints in the museum's exhibit. Wendy... Read more →

Five Sentence Fiction - Delicate

Hmm, I'm not quite sure where this response to Lillie McFerrin's Five Sentence Fiction prompt came from. It's certainly not what I'd normally think would be evoked by "delicate." Perhaps this is what comes from taking a few weeks off from writing while on vacation. I'm not sure if that would mean I should take more or fewer vacations. Regardless, I hope you'll hop on over to Lillie's blog to see what other people wrote... Read more →