by Lucy Grecu | Oct 7, 2026 | Perspective Shift, Story Time, Two Cents
Welcome back to the blog! How have you been? How was the rest of your summer? Mine was pretty good—aside from getting extremely homesick pretty much all of September. We’ll get to that later. I also started two new jobs and an internship! I’m quite the...
by Lucy Grecu | Aug 14, 2026 | Mundane Wonder, Perspective Shift, Story Time, Two Cents
Friday! It’s Friday! You know what that means! It means that on Wednesday, I looked at my blog and went, “MMMMM maybe not…” And then I looked at it again on Thursday and went, “MMMMM I still don’t wanna!” And now we’re...
by Lucy Grecu | Jul 29, 2026 | Mundane Wonder, Perspective Shift, Story Time, Two Cents
Dead-end street I grew up in a Spanish colonial revival house. It was the very first house on the right-hand side of a dead-end street. I’d ride my scooter up and down and up and down. It felt a hundred miles long. My best friend at the time lived at the very...
by Vella Karman | Jun 19, 2026 | Guest Blog!, Mundane Wonder, Perspective Shift, Two Cents
I’ve never been a gamer (unless Mario Kart Wii counts), but the idea of “side quests” fascinates me. In video games, like Legend of Zelda, side quests are small little tasks that NPCs (Non Player Characters) offer you. Usually it’s something like retrieving their lost...
by Lucy Grecu | Jun 12, 2026 | Mundane Wonder, Perspective Shift, Writing
Can you tell a story in 100 words? And more importantly…does it have to be any good? Here’s a 100-word flash fiction I did on Tuesday for the prompt “For once, everything goes right.” What day is it? I rub a tired eye. I’ve lost...
by Lucy Grecu | Jun 3, 2026 | Mundane Wonder, Perspective Shift, Story Time
Long day’s end. I pulled into my driveway after a long day. Well, a long week. Although I guess it was still only Thursday. It was late—at least after 6. But winter was over, so the sky was still bright. The sun still hung in the pale blue sky. But the technical...
Oh, I love that song! Unlike my friends from The Company, though, I never heard it in the context of…
So glad to hear that, Mattie! You're welcome for the reminder.
Hi Judy! I'll be staying in Cambridge :-)
I have the same Neverland feeling about Regina Spektor's "The Call". It was SUCH a powerful song to me when…
Wow Lucy, this hits home for me! I hate endings and uncertain futures. But thinking about eternity is a blessing…