Once upon a time there was a site called The Back Porch, which was co-hosted by my friend Deb. Once upon a time CafeWriting was actually updated monthly.

We’re going to continue the hiatus a bit longer, while we reconfigure some things, including the return of The Thursday Threesome (which used to be a staple of The Back Porch) and regular, meatier prompts from the main site.

Keep watching!

Yes, I know, I haven’t given you new prompts. Sorry. Until four days ago was still dealing with personal medical matters.

Look for prompts this weekend.

No, really. I promise.

Lovely, talented CafeWriters, I’ve had some heavy personal stuff going on in the last couple of weeks, and I’m having trouble finding my OWN inspiration right now. I’m extending the Milne prompts through the end of June.

As a teaser, however, the theme for July will be SPACE (in honor of the eclipse on the 22nd), and the theme for AUGUST (which is MY month, but I’ll happily share with others who were born in it) will have something to do with FIRE.

If you have photos or quotations you’d like to suggest for either of those themes, comment on this post.

If you’d care to write to some more Milne prompts scroll to the next entry, please.

Thank you all for your patience and participation.

– Miss Meliss

My 14YO chihuahua, Zorro, started coughing blood and had to be put down on Sunday the 22nd, so I pretty much spent last week hiding from the world. He was totally a child-substitute (I love my other dogs, but we don’t have the same bond.)

February participants page will go up this week, and March project will open by the end of Sunday.

Folks…
During some maintenance of my account earlier tonight, the mysql database for this site was irretrievably lost.

I have some of the templates, and I /think/ I have the Halloween prompt page, but all your links have been lost.

Please comment on this post with your links ONLY for the Halloween Post, and accept my apologies. We’ll be starting with new prompts later this weekend; I hope you’ll stick with me.