My foster daughter has this habit of saying “Guess what?” without giving any further clues or context. In the beginning, I would ask for hints…
Kids are great. I love the way they don’t mince words. I called a friend on Tuesday to ask for help after claiming it “Ask…
It was dark, rainy, and wet when I walked out of the office a little after 5 this evening. But that didn’t stop me from…
I’m still struggling with the sadness that came over me yesterday. Not in an “I’m still sad” way but in a “Big episodes of grief…
I love to doodle. So today, as I sat waiting for a meeting that took forever to get started, I found myself doodling a bit.…
So there is was a great big, blue 2,800-pound bronze heart sculpture on campus that I totally love. I noticed it on my first trip…
Today’s writing prompt was to write for ten minutes starting with the words “Today I will…”. So when lunch came around I grabbed my laptop…
I don’t know how it happens, but I will go weeks and weeks with my desk being nice and clean then all of a sudden…
Curl ˈkər(-ə)l (verb) [Middle English crullen, curlen, from crulle, curly, perhaps of Middle Low German origin.]transitive verb: 1: to form (as the hair) into coils…
I can’t believe that I’ve had so much useless rubbish to share with the world since I started Just Frances! I’ve found writing here to…
When I was a kid I thought that the horses just off the west interchange in Ellensburg were wild and I dreamt that when I…
I asked by Just Frances I asked the grass why it was green; And it smiled and said just because. I asked the sky why…
I’m on my way to England and had to leave my lovely foster daughter behind for the week. We discussed my trip ahead of time…
Around 4:30 this morning Schrodie really started to get on my nerves. She was zipping around the house like crazy; pounding on the wood floors…
So there I was in line at the British Airways counter at SeaTac. With me were three of my five sisters and their kids and…
I removed a large grasshopper from the house today using Paul’s special bug-removal jar. The old peanut butter jar took on the duty of bug…
I had to smile today when I left the office and noticed several dozen extremely fit, extremely beautiful, young (legally so), skimpily-clad coeds milling around…
I’m in full-on “fake it ’til you make it” mode these days. Or, at least, I’m trying to be. So today’s bit of inspiration from my…
I really like candy. Especially candy that comes on a stick. Candy on a stick is great fun because of the bonus of using your…
I was born as a homeless transient, living in hotel rooms on the road for the first couple of weeks of my life. Added to…