Good morning, y’all! Welcome to Wednesday and the Weekly Blog Challenge sponsored by the fine folks over at Long and Short Reviews. This week’s topic: things I collect. So, honesty time here. I absolutely hate trinkets. I don’t know where this loathe for trinkety things originated but I think it happened sometime between moves two …
Author: dixiejackson
Author of romance suspense and contemporary women's fiction.
Mr. Perfect Lips, A Saturday Short
Photo by Renate Vanaga on Unsplash A few weeks ago, I participated in a Flash Fiction Friday in one of the many Facebook author groups I belong to. The appropriate time has passed that I can now share with you the result of my prompt: The man in front of her was supposed to be …
The Love Language
Good morning, y’all! I’m running late again this week. Seems to be my norm lately. I’m not sure if it’s that I have too many irons in the fire or I’m just distracted. Maybe both? I digress! Onward. This week’s topic of discussion for the Wednesday Weekly Blogger Challenge sponsored by Long and Short Reviews …
Times They Are A-Changin!
Good day, readers and insecure writers! The first Monday totally sneaked up on me. Times they are a-changin’…I think that’s a lyric from some song or other that I can’t recall the name of or the rest of this morning. It’s been a wild week! And a busy month. Since last time we met, I’ve …
Wander-lusting
Photo by Kristina Gain on Pexels.com Who could have predicted when the WWBC topics were chosen for this year where we’d be today? I’m sure the topic of travel is one a lot of folks’ minds today, particularly with a holiday weekend coming up here in the US. Technically the last place I traveled was …
From Alpha to Zulu: Life as a Military Bride, Echo
Echo is for: Enlisted Life I’ve been writing military romance for many years now and reading it even longer. I’m picky when it comes to who I’ll read when it comes to military romance because I lived military life and I have a few sticking points when it comes to how it’s written. I’ve deduced …
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From Alpha to Zulu: Life as a Military Bride, Delta
Delta is for: Deployment Before I get started with the “D”-word, let me just pose this. Where the heck did June go? My gravy, y’all! Here we are with Independence Day staring us down, and may I just add on to that, we’re mostly still closed down. I digress… Deployment. This is the magical time …
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From Alpha to Zulu: Life as a Military Bride, Charlie
Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com Charlie is for: Corporals and Colonels and Chiefs, Oh my! I remember when I first became a bride to the Marine Corps, I didn’t have a clue what all those insignia meant on the collars and shoulders of all those sporting the uniform. It barely registered to me what the …
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May Old Glory Fly
Photo by Todd Trapani on Pexels.com One of the things I really miss about living aboard base is the constant presence of the American flag. Today being Flag Day, I thought I’d talk a bit about the stars and stripes, Flag Day, and what it stands for. The first Flag Day was celebrated in 1877 …
Just a Quickie
I have to tell y’all I believe it takes an enormous amount of talent to pull off a short story or novella. I mean, as a writer, when taking on such a feat, you’re agreeing to give your readers a complete story in a condensed form. You agree to supply the beginning, middle, and end …
