Tag: Writing

• Echoes––Part Two

  The conclusion to Jack and Holly’s adventures reads below. Their expedition is based on factual events. Following the story is a list of what really happened. Echoes––The Conclusion “Look Holly,” Jack commanded, “I found a family name here, my family, I mean.” Holly looked up from the book she was searching through at a table […]

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  August 30, 2018

  Blogging, blogging fundamentals, Coos Bay, Oregon, firstfridays, Genealogy, Personal, True Stories, Uncategorized, Yoakam Family

  Autobiographical, Family History of the Yoakams, Genealogy, Personal, True Stories, Writing

• Echoes, Part 1

    I’m posting, in two parts, a short story written as a classroom assignment. This is based on true events that occurred in the ancestral line of my paternal grandmother, my great-great grandparents, John and Eliza Yoakam, who settled in Coos Bay, Oregon in the mid 1850s. Echoes, Part One   “Turn left here,” Jack […]

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  August 18, 2018

  blogging fundamentals, Catastrophic Experience, Death, firstfridays, Little Towns, Personal, True Stories, Uncategorized

  Autobiographical, Intropections, Personal, The Struggle is Real, True Stories, Writing

• Dirty Deeds Done on Spoon Lane

  I can’t even. Think. I’ve never this stumped before.  Writing prompts are not improving the flow of creative energy through the synapses of this brain.  So, I decided to post this essay that won second place in my university writing contest in two parts.   Dirty Deeds Done on Spoon Lane (Part One) Anderson Union […]

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  August 8, 2018

  blogging fundamentals, Epic Fail, firstfridays, Lifelines, Little Towns, Personal, School Days, Self Awareness, Uncategorized

  Autobiographical, bloggingfundamentals, cracked pots, Emancipation, Labels, My bad, Oopsie daisy., Personal, Rants, Stop the insanity, The Struggle is Real, True Crime, True Stories, Writing