by Valorie Quesenberry | Sep 10, 2013 | Uncategorized
The runners-up of the Create Romance Short Story Content were featured in the September/October edition of Family Fiction Magazine. “The Day MacBeth Escaped” was one of the runner-up entries. Read the interview about the story’s origin...
by Valorie Quesenberry | Aug 19, 2013 | Uncategorized
Open HandsEager, anxious, untested hands,these were mine that day in May.Hardly believing you were finally here,giddy with excitement, trembling lest harm come to you,Determined to protect you at any cost. I held you in my hands and closed them...
by Valorie Quesenberry | Jul 31, 2013 | Uncategorized
I’m sitting at my laptop in the spare room (oh, that sounds “Narnia-ish”) which is a combination office, bedroom, practice room and storage space containing items my daughter is collecting for her first year at college. It’s a nice room,...
by Valorie Quesenberry | Jul 21, 2013 | Uncategorized
One of the saddest things about sin is that it robs you of a sense of delight in life. Oh, there are pleasures in sin but they are the violent, fleeting kind, not the lasting fulfillment of real joy. Sin tickles the imagination but doesn’t deliver the...
by Valorie Quesenberry | Jul 8, 2013 | Uncategorized
I do try to avoid posting rants, but I’m wondering if anybody else is over the “patriotic” pictures some celebs are making available to the public. It is their right as Americans, I suppose, but wearing the red, white and blue as a bikini seems to me...
by Valorie Quesenberry | Jun 17, 2013 | Uncategorized
It is said that a picture is worth a thousand words; this one captures 18 years of my life.