It Sticks With Me

Writober 2025: Day Three Texture>Response Post 🔗Links in the Table of Contents are Jump links to my responses to each of the challenges 🐦‍⬛This is original work created by Maria L. Berg and this post counts as copyright. All rights reserved. 🎃OctPoWriMo 🦇Writober Flash Fiction 👻Halloween Photography Challenge Today’s Theme: Texture These are my responsesContinue reading “It Sticks With Me”

What’s Making That Sound?

Writober 2025: Day Two Sounds>Response Post 🔗Links in the Table of Contents are Jump links to my responses to each of the challenges 🐦‍⬛This is original work created by Maria L. Berg and this post counts as copyright. All rights reserved. 🎃OctPoWriMo 🦇Writober Flash Fiction 👻Halloween Photography Challenge Today’s Theme: Sounds These are my responsesContinue reading “What’s Making That Sound?”

Staying With the Breath

Writober 2025: Day One Breath>Response Post 🔗Links in the Table of Contents are Jump links to my responses to each of the challenges 🐦‍⬛This is original work created by Maria L. Berg and this post counts as copyright. All rights reserved. 🎃OctPoWriMo 🦇Writober Flash Fiction 👻Halloween Photography Challenge Today’s Theme: Breath OctPoWriMo Take a BreathContinue reading “Staying With the Breath”

Breaking Through My Crossroads Block

This year, 2025, at the end of August, is the 20th Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. It’s hard for us survivors to believe it has already been that long because we are still affected by it every day. Any survivor of traumatic events knows what anniversaries can do. So please be tender with any K-storm survivorsContinue reading “Breaking Through My Crossroads Block”

April Review and What’s Next

Now that April’s busy challenges are over and we’ve had a couple days to breathe and calm down, let’s take some time to reflect on the month as a whole, and celebrate all we accomplished. This year I really appreciated the array of content, and readers’ comments in conversation with my content. Here are someContinue reading “April Review and What’s Next”

New Depths

Today being Sunday, there is no A to Z. Here is my poem in response to the prompts at NaPoWriMo and Writer’s Digest’s Poem a Day Challenge. New Depths The frontman gets all the gloryeven here in the depthsof the underwater kingdomwhere do they think the processionalmusic is coming from as theyparade their daughtersbefore him?Continue reading “New Depths”

A Day of Rest

Two of my poems (first drafts) were discussed on Rattle’s Critique of the Week this week. Watch this video to share in this exciting learning experience: Today being Sunday, there is no A to Z. Here is my poem in response to the prompts at NaPoWriMo and Writer’s Digest’s Poem a Day Challenge. Easter BunnyContinue reading “A Day of Rest”

Full Circle

Today being Sunday, there is no A to Z today. Here is my poem in response to the prompts at NaPoWriMo and Writer’s Digest’s Poem a Day Challenge. Full Circle 1.Here I am again: Again I’ve come full circle.The flowers come too soon with so much left to dostalled upside down in the loop-de-loop ofContinue reading “Full Circle”

The A-Z of Depth

This year’s theme for everything I’m doing on Experience Writing is Depth, so for this year’s daily posts in April I’ll be exploring the A-Z of Depth, and writing daily poems for Poetry Month about the A-Z of Depth. The word depth has many different and interesting meanings which I presented in my post “OurContinue reading “The A-Z of Depth”

5 Steps to Deeper Discovery

Today we’re celebrating breaking through the barricades that stop us from deeper self-discovery. In this year’s theme post I wrote, depth takes time. It isn’t forced or rushed. I am finding that to be the truth. I had two books, Healing Through Words by Rupi Kaur and How to Write Poetry: A Guided Journal withContinue reading “5 Steps to Deeper Discovery”