2024 flew by far too quickly.  Wasn’t it just a few months ago I was shopping for last year’s Christmas gifts? The old adage is always...

This month's post, https://www.jaynelisbeth.com/post/the-art-of-gift-wrapping explores what the ways you wrap gifts says about you!

I have spent the entire day wrapping gifts. I have wrapped my Christmas Cranberry Relish and special hand crafted or “store bought” gifts...

I decided to do something different in this Food for Thought. The writers group I've mentioned previously has contributed another round...

I am sharing that wonderful, witty statement, “ What Fresh Hell is This?” It is one of my favorite quotes from the most respected and...

Cyndi Lauper performing "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun..." I went "shopping in my closet," as my dear friend, Fran, used to say. I needed an...

To write or not to write has been a question that comes to me only when I am not writing. Usually, I am in the active phase of self-doubt...

Of late, I have been obsessed with the value and the difficulties of positive communication. Thoughts go through my mind with no...

Author's Note: I am resurrecting this short story I wrote in 2011, when researching my journals for my memoir, which eventually became...

CBS News recently aired a weeklong special on “Sandwiching.” I wondered if this was some series on new sandwich ideas, kinky sex antics....

As part of my Virtual Book Tour, which can be viewed (cut and paste) at: https://tinyurl.com/4ehtmk9a I was asked to write "The Story...

As I was working on one of my favorite tasks, hanging wash out to dry on my clothesline, I  began to reflect on my collection of dish...

We have a returning guest, a sweet little warbler. She usually comes with her mate but this year she returned alone. She knew all the...

Throughout my childhood I had always been a tomboy. I played with the boys even though I was often relegated to watching their battles...

With age there is the  realization that I am becoming more and more of a recluse. I have respect for other friends who have adopted the...

Words. They rule my life and the lives of us all; how we use them; how we express ourselves . The choices we make in our communication...

UFO Highway, Area 51, Rachel, Nevada In honor of Halloween and strange unexplainable experiences, I decided to share this life event of...

I was recently asked by a friend and fellow writer, “What is your process of writing? How did you get published?” This opened up a...

Recently I had that special, cherished, looked-forward to experience: lunch with a dear friend. Jean and I met in 1991. She immediately...

The thrilling release of my second book, Raising the Dead, has filled me with enormous joy. And, excruciating, gut-wrenching fear. My box...