Tag: kindness

Shut Up, and Listen

Jacqueline Cioffa

Did you remember to open your eyes, and un-wax your ears when you woke this morning? Did you take for granted the cozy 500-thread count sheets, and the down pillows propped under your head? Did you have a proper bed to sleep in with too many pretty, pleasing greige throw Read more

Jacqueline Cioffa

A retired, international model, and celebrity makeup artist. Co-Author of Model Citi Zen, the guide. Founder of http://modelcitizenmakeup.blogspot.com/. Author of numerous prose pieces in various literary magazines. Most recently published in Little Episodes Brainstorms the anthology, among esteemed artists Sadie Frost, Melvin Burgess and Todd Swift.

She Gets It

Katherine Wilson

Sometimes, God does a different kind of matchmaking. Today, he put me right next to someone who needed to talk and to be understood. She began speaking the moment I boarded our town jitney as if she had been waiting just for me. Mind you, I have heard her and Read more

Katherine Wilson

Born and partially raised in Miami, Florida, Katherine began life as a dancer, studying with Martha Mahr and School of American Ballet. The words “too big and heavy,” at 15, led to a two-year hiatus. A stint as a cocktail waitress/dancer at a local supper club resurrected that career endeavor and took her to South America, Japan, and several stops stateside. She landed in NYC, her true love, for the next twelve years; living the single gal life and soaking it all in. She's most grateful for the hat she's worn for the last sixteen years - single mom. In this endeavor, she's rewritten most of her script. She seeks to live her definition of a significant life and to hear from others who are doing the same. She can, on occasion, be seen dancing in her living room.

Pebbles in Water: Self-Awareness and You

Jayme Beddingfield

Spoiler Alert, I people watch. Partly because I don’t like to engage in idle chatter with near strangers to pass the time and partly because I’m an over serious fiction writer determined to make the most complex characters I can muster. Self-awareness has been a trait I’ve been paying attention Read more

Jayme Beddingfield

Jayme Beddingfield is the host and producer of 'Too Many Words' a comedy interview podcast. She is also the creator of 'Elliot Granger and The Clueless Brigade', which is a weekly serial that follows Elliot Granger as she stumbles through grief and growing up. The series is featured as both a fictional podcast and written story that appears on The Scribbler. Jayme has been crafting stories since her third-grade assignment to write her own fairy tale. She prefers to work from the sofa with her dogs by her feet. Originally from Northern New Jersey, she now lives in Seattle, the city of her dreams. She lives with her husband, two children, and a slew of adopted pets. She is completely post-apocalyptic obsessed and also admits to being an audio enthusiast and recovering supervillain.