Friend and fellow writer SUSAN FISCHBACH ISAACS is taking a poetry class. She posted her latest homework on her blog here. The poem is called The Perfect Shade of Joy. She said she was thinking of me when she wrote the last line. I can’t…

Not much, and it didn’t last, but it was purty. A WRITING PROMPT FROM ME TO YOU: Write about something pretty that doesn’t last. MA p.s. Yes, I buggered up the upper left corner of the photo trying to remove the corner of the porch…

Hi, there! I’m Tipper Allen, and guess what? I had my third Gotcha Day! A Gotcha Day, in case you don’t know what it is, is the day your hooman gotcha. Momma got me from the man who found me by a pond. He saw…