When a Blog’s the Thing.
My blogs generally fall into one or both of two categories:
Mazzy's Musings
Sometimes profound, sometimes poetic, ponderings, perspectives, and promotions.
Mazzy's CWD Blog Posts
I cut my proverbial blogging teeth on the Christian Writers Downunder blogspot on 13th November, 2013 and became regular contributor.
After tech gremlins gobbled up my original website enroute to its current dwelling, I’m gradually revamping the old, and adding the new.
Just Write
‘As you travel through life, try to make the things that could be, the things that are, lest at the end of your life you look back with regret and see only what might have been.’
Called by Name
Called by Name One of the great joys of having children is the fun of choosing their names—or it becomes a joy once you get past the wrangling (as in ‘will Great Grandpa Gatsby ever forgive us for calling our son Scott Fitzgerald G.?’). When my husband and I chose...
Pondering Punctuation
That paragraph—the one I have just written—is pristine. Perfect. Pedantically precise even. Or so I thought. My computer program disagrees …
Hats, Posts, and Literary Landscapes
It was May 2015. It was also high time my husband and I gave our garden some much-needed attention … Any project—writing or otherwise—can seem daunting and overwhelming …
My Coach and I
My Coach and I ‘Last piece of assessment—complete! Happy dance!’ Those words, posted as my Facebook status over eight years ago, marked the final strides of a marathon I began in 2011, when I enrolled in Tabor Adelaide’s creating writing program. For seven words that...
Veils, Halos, & Shackles
‘Rape is not only a sexual crime; it is an abuse of strength and power, which strips its victims of their dignity, autonomy, and self-worth. Those who use their strength and power to manipulate and abuse others, in any form, rape the collective soul of our humanity.’
Writers are Artists
I was a capable reader as a child, yet I still begged my mother to read aloud to me. I would close my eyes and enter a world where I could savour the flavour of music, inhale the aroma of colours or float as easily as a helium balloon. In that world, every house had a...
Live ~ Create ~ Flourish ~ Encourage
They say life is for living. For some of us, to live is to create. To create is to flourish. And to ignore our creativity is perilous. I know. I learned that the hard way, from experience. But experience taught me that every time I squashed my creative urges in the...