No Fun Vancouver

5 days a week I passed the dark man who never failed to move me as few street people have, and he was most clearly a member of that tribe. He sat under the Burrard St. bridge on a chair in the community garden, leaning his elbows on his thighs looking down at the ground…

Noah Webster and Politics are to Blame!

When I came up with Travelling Crone as the name for this blog I just went to wordpress and plopped in the name with 2 LLs and all was fine. But when I was writing an email tell a friend about it, spell check didn’t like the 2 LLs. OHMYGAWD!(yeah yeah most people would have used…

Pursued

This is not my usual post but a response to a prompt from Tipsy Lit, a writing, reading and drinking site that offers up weekly prompts to challenge writers of all sorts. This is my first effort and of course it is late. But, whatever. Here it is and I’d love me some critiques. Hope…

Cruel Curve Balls of Shit

Have you ever had the wind knocked out of you? Yeah it’s a cliche but have you ever really experienced it? I have physically a few times and last week I experienced it emotionally. I have 1 goal really for the next 5 years and that is to set things up so that when I…