A Flash Collection

After playing with InDesign a little, I produced this: "A Hard Knock Life," a set of two flash fiction pieces.

Check it out!

Open publication - Free publishing - More stories

I'm considering publishing my novel in a serial format through issuu.com...

Love Lesson No. 3: Shared Interests Aren't Everything

This is a series of lessons I've learned about love, arranged in no particular order. These lessons have been gleaned from personal experience, friends' stories, movies, books, magazine articles, etc. If you want to share a lesson you've learned about love, email me (rosellaeleanor@gmail.com).

When Tom Hansen described how perfect Summer was for him, his little sister said something very wise. "Just because she likes the same bizzaro crap you do doesn't mean she's your soul mate," she told him.

I make mistakes and when I do, I apologize

In my last post I called someone I work with some very unfair things. My basic complaint -- that this girl doesn't really communicate with me in a way I would like or consider appropriate -- remains, but by calling her names I am no better.

I am very sorry for the way I reacted.

This is not the first time I've had blogger's diarrhea. On occasion, because I'm only human, I blog about a situation that is upsetting me and although I know they're just my feelings and opinions, I write stuff that others might take as fact or hold against the person or thing I wrote about.

This is something we are made to consider in journalism classes and it's something I wish I'd considered this morning when I wrote that post.

There is a mature way to stand up for yourself when you feel like you're being talked down to, and name calling isn't it.

I only hope others can learn from my mistakes.