April Coker, Author

Author: aencoker

  • Teacher Tuesday: Evidence of New Life

      This week’s journal challenge from Folk Magazine asks writers to reflect upon the evidence of new life we saw on last week’s nature walk, and to describe new beginnings evident in our lives.   Spring is a wonderful season of new beginnings.  Everywhere you look you see flowers bursting off their stems, birds happily…

  • Meaningless Drivel Monday: From Old and Busted to New Hotness!

    I have been busy!  This is the hardest I have ever worked while not working.  Keeping an antiques booth well-stocked and inviting is not an easy proposition.  I knew it would be work, but this much?  I love it, though! Here is one of my latest projects. “Old and Busted” (From Men in Black) I…

  • Wedded Life Wednesday: Don’t forget. . .

        “Could you please bring some firewood in from the porch before you come to bed?”   “Why?  It’s not going to get cold.”   “They said it was going to get down into the 40’s.”   “They said 60’s.”   “No, they didn’t!  Please bring some wood in.  It’s supposed to storm in…

  • Teacher Tuesday: Tiptoe through the tulips—make that azaleas. . .

    This week’s FOLK Magazine Journal Challenge is to take a nature walk and reflect on the sights, sounds, and feelings I experience as I walk.  Well, to be honest, I didn’t go for a walk today.  I was too busy working on my antiques booth and doing some thrift store shopping.  Wait, I did walk…

  • Wedded Life Wednesday: Me, Stubborn? FOLK Magazine’s Journal Challenge

    This week’s prompt asks us to reflect on a time when we were stubborn or went against what others wanted us to do.  Hm, let’s see.  Stubborn?  Me? What comes to mind isn’t earth-shattering or life-changing, but it marked a passage of sorts for me.  I stood up for myself at a car dealership.  A…