tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-172662812024-03-16T07:01:36.941-04:00Lisa Buie-Collard - Author Author websiteLisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06658507579160418855noreply@blogger.comBlogger493125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17266281.post-82651766439743428072024-03-11T17:14:00.004-04:002024-03-11T17:14:52.073-04:00March Is Marching On Without Me On IWSG So On To April! IWSGI had planned to post last week for IWSG, but somehow I didn't. So I'm posting this week (for April evidently!). Life has taken off in such a good way (mostly), that I would forget my head if it weren't permanently attached. This is good and bad. Because I'm not writing it's bad. Because life is so full right now it's good. I am reading like I haven't read since before Covid. I've read Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06658507579160418855noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17266281.post-59506561368248153392024-01-03T14:46:00.003-05:002024-01-03T14:46:33.758-05:00January & The Beginning Of A New Year IWSG IWSGHappy New Year! I hope you all had wonderful beginnings. Mine have been calm, low key and full of time with family. Lovely. The rest of the year looks to have a lot of travel, and more time with friends and family. This is all good. I hope the world decides to calm down and carry on...In honor of new beginnings I'm sharing a poet's words...The Good Morrow And now good-morrow to ourLisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06658507579160418855noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17266281.post-87604318640009287012023-12-06T00:00:00.093-05:002023-12-06T20:54:44.867-05:00December Floating In To Carry Us Out...IWSG IWSGThis month I'd like to share a movie preview with you. This film has touched my heart and makes me feel love for the best in humans. We are not a "black & white" race upon this earth. We are such a mix that I don't like to use "gray" to describe us; I prefer mixed. We are a mixed race. Full of wonder and impossible dreams, and, hate and intolerance. I like to think that over the Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06658507579160418855noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17266281.post-17505049399021719562023-11-01T00:00:00.188-04:002023-11-01T00:00:00.147-04:00November Thankfulness & IWSG IWSG WEB PAGENovember is when we're supposed to stop and take a look at our lives and what we are thankful for in those lives. I've been reading my mother's writings lately. She's been keeping a journal since I was a teenager, and, writing anecdotes as the occasions arise. I found something she wrote about my "other" dad which I wanted to share with you. I will let her words speak now as I Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06658507579160418855noreply@blogger.com31tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17266281.post-60590658288493611092023-10-04T00:00:00.008-04:002023-10-04T11:00:44.519-04:00Autumn in October Begins The Nestling In... IWSG IWSGI started this post and never finished it, till today that is, so I'm technically not late! Yay me. I'm finally home for what looks to be many months in a row! So, what is my excuse for not writing? I don't have one, not even a little one. So, I'm thinking of taking on NaNo this year. I've done it before and done wonders with it so I think that is a challenge I will take on, which will,Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06658507579160418855noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17266281.post-88215048765840253462023-09-06T00:00:00.081-04:002023-09-06T00:00:00.140-04:00So...September Already? IWSGIWSGHow is it possible for time to flow so swiftly? I can't believe it's already September, though, I'm very happy with the weather we've had. Not like some areas of our world where the heat is so extreme and lives are threatened every day.The question for this month I answered last month, so will say instead that I'm so very proud to be a part of this group. I really appreciate all of the Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06658507579160418855noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17266281.post-72912584061482725022023-08-07T12:00:00.079-04:002023-08-07T12:00:00.148-04:00August "Rush" Overdue IWSGIWSGOkay, I've set a reminder now for September's post since life is so busy these days that I always miss my post, this time by five days! I woke up in the middle of the night remembering I didn't post. So, lost some sleep, but finally made it here.Grandchildren are so worth it, missing the post I mean! Yes, I blame it on grandchildren, happily. I am more in love than ever with them, and their Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06658507579160418855noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17266281.post-75379604492475382092023-07-06T16:03:00.000-04:002023-07-06T16:03:36.061-04:00July In The Time Of Heat and IWSG IWSGI used to love July, the summer, the heat, the freedom. My tolerance for heat has diminished drastically with age. However, this July I'm in heaven. Our grandson's (and their parents of course) are visiting for a whole month! There is so much to do, so much to explore and enjoy with all four of them. Our eldest is 3 and a half, the youngest is six months. So, I get a baby fix while alsoLisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06658507579160418855noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17266281.post-68148451594082897022023-06-08T21:47:00.000-04:002023-06-08T21:47:01.485-04:00June! OMG it's June IWSG Already!I'm so glad to realize that I've only missed IWSG by one day. Last year, I missed so many that I got relegated to the end of the line on the sign up, after at least 6 year or so of not missing any. Be that as it may, I'm not at all upset to be able to say I actually have been writing after a hiatus of over a year not writing. It finally feels good to be writing, to be reading, to be ready to takeLisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06658507579160418855noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17266281.post-22473196545154734832023-05-03T00:00:00.117-04:002023-05-03T00:00:00.144-04:00May Brings Rain and IWSGIWSGHello Everyone. I hope you are enjoying spring weather! We are off and on. The last week has been mostly rain, which my garden is grateful for. From my garden, anemonesI have three new adventures in writing that I'd like to share, for the first time in a long time. And I apologize in advance for this post being so long.The first is I'm judging again for a well known writer's contest. NotLisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06658507579160418855noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17266281.post-60141668830178955282023-04-04T17:32:00.003-04:002023-04-04T17:32:37.457-04:00April Is Host To The A-to-Z Blogging Challenge!IWSG WEBSITEAlthough I'm not participating in the A to Z Challenge this year, I still want to give a shout out to those who are and wish them good luck and interesting blog posts to read!A to Z ChallengeI've done the challenge quite a few times. It is a real challenge, but so fun and there are so many blogs that participate in all kinds of areas, not just writing blogs. This year, so far, there Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06658507579160418855noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17266281.post-8391734900591347082023-03-01T10:34:00.000-05:002023-03-01T10:34:00.107-05:00March-ing Into Spring IWSG IWSGOnward into March. Today I sit thinking about writing. About what it used to mean to me. Does it still feed my soul the way it used to? Is it still "worth" doing? Was it really all about money and not about who I want to be/what I want to do? Doubt is rising like the sun this morning and there are no clouds masking it from my sight. Do I want to write anymore? So far, life outside Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06658507579160418855noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17266281.post-699234521076362642023-02-02T11:26:00.000-05:002023-02-02T11:26:06.964-05:00Heart Month and IWSG In the shortest month of the year, time seems to have stood still just long enough for me to miss yesterday’s posting, yet again. And so I must start at the end of the IWSG list for the first time in seven years. I am very sad about this, but I have a great reason for being late, which I will share shortly. We are still in France. We leave later this month, and our last weeks here are Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06658507579160418855noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17266281.post-61198481499940501872023-01-09T08:33:00.003-05:002023-01-09T08:33:49.209-05:00Still In France and Very Late for IWSG Happy New Year to All. I know it hasn’t been a great beginning for everyone. As always there seems to be a balance of wonderful and awful. I hope you had more of the former than the later over the holidays and the beginning of this new year. I’ve had both, but much more positive than not. We tend to rethink the year behind whenever we get a new one, and I haven’t so much as thought of the Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06658507579160418855noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17266281.post-39487676125513247512022-11-02T00:00:00.050-04:002022-11-02T00:00:00.185-04:00November, Sorry I Missed October! Fall this year has taken its time in coming, but has finally arrived. The colors, the coolness, and the soon to come time change all contribute to Autumn moving-into-winter. I've been traveling A LOT due to all sorts of reasons, but mostly taking care of family and seeing friends not seen since before the pandemic. I've shed tears seeing these dear folks, of happiness, and the fact we're Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06658507579160418855noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17266281.post-87900475835085831652022-09-07T00:00:00.032-04:002022-09-07T00:00:00.208-04:00September Healing And IWSG Hello and welcome to September’s post, including for IWSG. https://www.insecurewriterssupportgroup.com/p/iwsg-sign-up.htmlI have so many things I want to write about today, and none of them have to do with my current wip. That being said, I will only write about one thing at a time and space things out over a couple of posts. Boney and (my husband) Geoffrey in France.I wrote in Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06658507579160418855noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17266281.post-17468875171310758072022-08-03T00:00:00.026-04:002022-08-03T00:00:00.191-04:00The Heat Did Not Wait For August IWSGSo, today's post is a bit different, and yet pertains to all artists of any medium and their struggles. I recently read the actress Viola Davis' memoir "Finding Me." She dives right in and gives raw, passionate, desperate descriptions of the life she has led. I felt uncomfortable in the first few chapters, but each time I thought to put the book down, I picked it back up and did Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06658507579160418855noreply@blogger.com35tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17266281.post-13658885043992519102022-07-05T18:00:00.001-04:002022-07-05T18:00:00.204-04:00July IWSG And I’m Still In France Sooo, this happened. I contracted covid the last week of our trip, which means I didn’t go home. My husband did because his visa ran out and he didn’t get Covid. I’ll be here another 10 days and I must say, if one needs to be in quarantine there are worse places to be! My parents-in-law are amazingly wonderful and caring and they have nursed me back to health (with us following ALL Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06658507579160418855noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17266281.post-83827848135302604292022-06-01T00:00:00.081-04:002022-06-01T00:00:00.192-04:00June in France! IWSGIWSG WEBSITEOur lovely IWSG co-hosts this fine month of June are...SE White, Cathrina Constantine, Natalie Aguire, Joylene Nowell Butler, Jacqui Murray!Please go visit their sites and thank them for keeping us going this month!I am writing this from the other side of the ocean from home, again! I am so very happy to be here, back in France with more folks that I love and Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06658507579160418855noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17266281.post-38173303305877050932022-05-04T12:06:00.003-04:002022-05-04T12:06:42.433-04:00Hello May! Hello IWSG!IWSG WEBSITEHearts are resilient even if fragile. Love brings joy over-filling and grief over fills as well. Time, such an ethereal yet solid concept can't be manipulated no matter how much one wishes it could. May brings color and life back from monochrome winter, soothing souls.Longing sits down and watches, knowing its turn will come again, soon enough. It is patient.MAY 4 IWSG Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06658507579160418855noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17266281.post-17063067760879079092022-04-07T10:21:00.001-04:002022-04-07T10:21:31.385-04:00Saddest April Ever and IWSG IWSG WEBSITEI missed yesterday because we had to let go of our little furry bundle of love, Boney, and I couldn't handle anything. The loss is overwhelming. The grief is there, then gone, then back again. No way to control it. No way to make sense of it. No clarity. Just empty space. A hole. My eyes hurt. My heart is so broken I don't know how to fix it yet. I "know" time will help. But Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06658507579160418855noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17266281.post-8668711561734221252022-03-08T10:48:00.001-05:002022-03-08T10:48:25.809-05:00Missed March IWSG But Am Here Now, Kind Of March has come in like a whirlwind and carried me away with it. I am back now, for the most part, but not totally up to par. My little love, Bonaparte, Boney for short, is sitting on a precipice between life and going away. It happened so fast, took us by surprise, and we are still trying to help him get better. So, with my mind on this I won't write much today. Please think of us and send Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06658507579160418855noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17266281.post-49498666479274518052022-02-02T00:00:00.041-05:002022-02-02T00:00:00.202-05:00Fluttering February & IWSG Good day to everyone! February, a time for love and madness, and, Black History (and my mother's birthday!). Weather is funky. Some look forward to celebrating with their special other, some rant because they don't have one. This month, leaning into spring, is one that feels like an "in between" month in the whole of the year. It's still winter, but we are teased at times with blue skies, Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06658507579160418855noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17266281.post-17298933252957359032022-01-07T10:13:00.000-05:002022-01-07T10:13:14.555-05:00IWSG January 2022! So, of course I start the year off late on IWSG! Bad habit lately, but one I'm willing to work on, even if I do a terrible job sometimes! I haven't made any "New Year Resolutions" because I don't do that anymore. Instead I reflected at the end of 2021. I am not out to try to "fix" the problems of last year. I'm out to work on bettering me/my life/life in general and I think looking back is Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06658507579160418855noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17266281.post-37254832882787044202021-12-28T06:56:00.000-05:002021-12-28T06:56:37.410-05:00Reflections On Time 2021Waking at 4:20 am, I find myself thinking, no almost obsessing on a multitude of things I am not doing instead of thinking of the things I have done or am doing. Maybe it's an age thing, feeling as if I'm running out of time. Time. Is it friend or foe? I'm not sure how to make it feel as if it's on my side. My father used to do this, worry and dwell on all the negatives instead of the fact he wasLisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06658507579160418855noreply@blogger.com1