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…
This is one of those funny posts for me. It started because I had a thought about rainbows, which then led me down a path…