Happy New Year!
I wish you and yours a year filled with fun, adventure, learning, health, laughter and joy! Best wishes, Norah
Norah Colvin
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Happy Christmas!
Wishing you all the joys of the Christmas season and a happy and safe holiday. Best wishes, Norah
Happy Grandparents Day!
In Australia, Grandparents Day is celebrated on the last Sunday in October. That’s today! I wish all the Grandparents out there, a very happy Grandparents Day. Whether you get to spend time with your grandchildren or not, I’m sure they are never far from your thoughts or you from theirs. The purpose of Grandparents Day [ ]
Good intentions, slow start
Good intentions, slow start For all my good intentions, I haven’t got very far with reading and writing blogs. But I have been doing some reading and writing though and checking in on blogs from time to time. I guess it’s only three months since the last post, and this is the fourth for the [ ]
Marnie Stories and AI
If you followed my blog over the years when I was posting regularly, you may remember the Marnie stories that I wrote in response to Flash Fiction prompts by Charli Mills at the Carrot Ranch. Depending upon the prompts, the 99-word stories provided a snippet of Marnie at various times of her life, from childhood [ ]
Two new books by Norah Colvin for Library For All
Earlier this month I was excited to receive copies of two new Library For All publications in the mail, especially when they were books written by me! The books are two versions of the same text, one in English, A Fast Car, and the other in Swahili Gari Linaloenda Haraka. I have now contributed over [ ]
Hello!
Hi patient friends and readers, I just wanted to let you know that I am still here and still reading (some of) your posts. Unfortunately, WordPress doesn t always let me leave a comment or even a like, so you may not be aware that I have popped over. I m not sure what is going on [ ]
Happy Christmas 2024
I have been silent on my blog for an entire year. It both surprises me and doesn’t surprise me at the same time. I knew I had done very little writing this year, but I didn’t realise I had done none! I have struggled this year to find any head or heart space for writing. [ ]
Happy Christmas 2023!
I wish you and your loved ones a very happy and safe holiday season. May the joys of Christmas be with you, and remain with you, throughout 2024. Best wishes, Norah
Waiting #99WordStories
This week at the Carrot Ranch, Charli Mills challenged writers to In 99 words (no more, no less), write a story about waiting. Where does this waiting take place? Does it have a past or a future outcome? Who is waiting and why? Go where the prompt leads! For my response, I have tried to [ ]