The Old Man in the Swamp “I’ve got about fifteen minutes before you bring him in to my office, so I’m going to need the intelligence brief on the old guy, ok Susie?  Oh, and I need a diet coke too.  So, he pressed his diet coke button and got it. The Chief of staff then opened her brief case and pulled out a single sheet of paper and timidly handed it to POTUS. “One lousy peace of pa Read More

My Response to Reader Sha Reader Sha submitted this prompt: Teach everything you know This prompt is difficult but I have decided to simplify it into five simple teachings that I have learned in my life, or have been taught, that will guide us in the right way in life. First: The greatest commandment: Mark 12:29: Jesus told the religious leaders: Love the Lord your God with all your heart and all your Read More

All 12 prompts have successfully hijacked my brain enough to tickle the sparkling tentacles of my cortical neurons to write something interesting. Some are challenging me more than others by their content. I will create a response to all 12, however, this will take me time. Please be patient. If you stop following the blog or take a break from reading, be aware, you may miss my response to your prom Read More

My Response to the Reader Vicky Writer’s prompt submitted by Vicky:  write about your traveling experience and beautiful views or something that made you smile. This is a tough one, because beauty is everywhere around us:  sometimes it is awe-inspiring and thrust directly in front of us, taking our breath away, and other times, it is hidden, but if we seek to find it, the beauty will find us. Read More

My Response to Reader’s Prompt from Kris “Write about fun ideas including little-known facts, funny conspiracy theories and favorite jokes” This joke I am sharing is in honor of my late mother, who believe it or not, told it to me years ago and it is one of the best, if not complicated ones I remember. She may have had a few sips of wine before she told me, I don’t remember,  but I loved her Read More

Thanks To My Loyal Readers for Excellent Writer’s Prompts. Please read carefully: I have received nine of them, and they are all excellent and they present to me different potential writing styles and genres that do tend to hijack the sparkly tentacles of my cortical neurons successfully. Congratulations to my readers who have submitted prompts.  I have accepted the challenge and will create so Read More

Reader Participation Challenge Someone reminded me that I wrote somewhere before: “I write whatever hijacks my brain.”   While this is true, my brain may be willing to listen to ideas suggested by my readers about what a future blog may be about. Some time ago, I asked my massive horde of voracious readers what were the favorite topics from SRCarson.com.  The number one answer was Ollie an Read More

Don ‘t even try it, they said.   Back in the early days of my writing-career hobby, I would attend writer’s conferences in various locations, trying to learn the craft from so-called experts and I took a few hard knocks with their reviews of my work.  But I always respectfully cursed them under my breath and walked away, then thought about the critique for a few weeks, and belatedly, finally under Read More

Ollie took a swig of Guinness, then decided it was time to open the letter, letterhead from the President’s Chief of Staff.  It was sitting on the table for several days, and the old man finally decided it was time to open it. Dear Mr. Ollie: It’s time for you to return. The president has heard about you and your many years of service to our country, and wants me to help clear a space in his Read More

His Legacy It’s been just over a year since we lost him, and I think that now the time has come to say a few words about my late father.  I am not going to make this long and windy and I will purposely omit many details so that the reader is not inundated with too many pages to digest about someone they never knew.  Instead, I will just highlight some important points about him that were importa Read More