I’m honored to announce that my true story, My Grandmother’s Candy Dish, was selected from thousands of submissions and published on March 20, 2018, by Chicken Soup for the Soul’s anthol...
https://friendlyfairytales.com/2018/03/21/announcing-publication/
Brother new, sister blue, I miss you. Both lost at age four. Pain is evermore. Is it wrong that I still long to belong? To share every care and touch your hair? To pillow fight, fly a kit...
Announcement One of my poems, Sister Blue, won First Place at NY Literary Magazine. Sister Blue will be published in the NY Literary Magazine anthology, Awake, in December 2016. Awake will be av...
https://friendlyfairytales.com/2016/10/01/sister-blue-won-first-place/
A wealth of new awards for Friendly Fairy Tales! Woo-hoo! I decided to celebrate our third snow day in a week by sharing this abundance of new awards. I’ve been gifted the Real Neat Blog, Liebs...
https://friendlyfairytales.com/2015/02/01/snowfall-of-awards/
This Holiday break, while recovering from stomach flu, I read JK Rowling’s new book, Silkworm (published under her pseudonym, Robert Galbraith). Has anyone else read it? In it, the author is l...
https://friendlyfairytales.com/2015/01/07/the-why-blog-party/
I’m a Spring baby, born to dance like the spring flowers. To share my spring joy, I made this video: I won’t tell you how many years I’ve seen, but I wouldn’t trade one because they’v...
https://friendlyfairytales.com/2014/04/29/dont-look-now-its-my-birthday/
People ask, what are blog awards and should I accept or not? Blog awards are acknowledgements given blogger to blogger, and all you have to do to accept is drag the award icon into your own post ...
https://friendlyfairytales.com/2014/04/09/to-accept-awards-or-not-to-accept-that-is-the-question/
Somehow, without my noticing, I have reached my one year blogoversary. WordPress let me know, and I was actually surprised. I’ve hardly noticed the year passing, I love the WordPress community ...
https://friendlyfairytales.com/2014/02/25/a-fairy-tale-year/
Ho ho ho! I’ve been to the North Pole, and when Santa heard that you’ve all been naughty and/or nice, he decided you needed some presents! You might prefer a rainbow loom, chocolates, plane t...
https://friendlyfairytales.com/2013/12/22/santa-is-coming-to-town/
I never imagined the response I have gotten to my fairy tales, here on Friendly Fairy Tales. I originally put up stories for family to be able to read them without my providing everyone copies. (...
https://friendlyfairytales.com/2013/11/25/awarded-blog-of-the-year-among-other-blessings/