tragedy

Painfully Pink Photograph copyright by Lynn Bridge In spite of his creeping dementia, Harry figures out one last thing about his life. To catch up with the tale, read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4.  To see my inspiration for today’s artwork, see Greta Olivas’

Volts Copyright by Lynn Bridge 6″ x 6″ x 1″ The story starring Harry is in full swing, and Harry’s dementia is his constant companion.  But, Harry is still able to make a big discovery about his life; we are heading there in this story! If you need to

Today, I’m hearing voices in my head!  One of them is telling me to get busy on my new ‘Blog Triage’ class assignment from Cynthia Morris and Alyson Stanfield:  write a topical post three different times, each to a different type of person in our lives, or even

Our friends who were in Haiti to try to re-open the hospital in Leogane told the story of coming to the United States for a couple of weeks at Christmas to visit friends and family, and buying a large supply of LED flashlights to take back to the hospital in Haiti as presents for

We have good friends who, after they “retired”, moved on to the really challenging projects, like spending 2003 building a nursing school in Leogane, Haiti.  They were called back again in 2009 to help in the effort to re-open a hospital that had died for lack of

I’m sorry to say I have made another unfortunate mosaic today, and just after I posted on my flickr site such a happy, flowery one, too.  At first glance, this one looks flowery, which might be an appropriate memorial for those many killed and wounded in a clinic at Fort

When I was in the car yesterday, I was listening to the evening news on National Public Radio, when “All Things Considered” came on with Ofeibea Quist-Arcton’s report on the September 28 massacre of pro-democracy protesters in Conacry, Guinea.  I had heard the

Today, I am giving you an entire short story- a short short story. I wrote it many years ago and used some circumstances of my family’s life as plot.  The motivations and thoughts expressed by the characters, however, are a complete fabrication for the purposes of telling a

Occurrences 1- Silent Witnesses One morning in June I was walking on the route that takes me past ball fields, beside a creek, and into a city park.  Along the way, there is an elaborate memorial for a police officer who was murdered while making a routine traffic stop in that

Emergency! Alone, Together Starting when it was just a newly-hatched community free-food-pantry, I have been volunteering for an organization of university-area churches called Micah 6, named after the passage from the book of Micah regarding what it is God requires of us.  The