[Continue reading...]Weekly Photo Challenge: Community
December 14, 2013 Leave a Comment
Oh Christmas tree, MY Christmas tree
December 8, 2013 10 Comments
This Christmas is a first of sorts for my husband and I. December 25, 2013 will be our first Christmas as empty nesters. Don’t worry; this post isn’t going to be a sappy one lamenting a dismally quiet household and no one to wake up with us on Christmas morning. Although we are disappointed that […]
[Continue reading...]Christmas threads
December 7, 2013 6 Comments
“Ma’am, may I ask you a question?” The persistent young lady clutching a tube of sea salt, something or other, actually matched my steps for a few seconds as I hurried past the mid-mall vendor. After my “no thank you” didn’t faze her tenacity, I tried “No thank, you I’m not interested” in a more […]
[Continue reading...]Grateful always
November 28, 2013 Leave a Comment
The sun will soon rise, on this Thanksgiving Day I’m up with my coffee, to read and to pray The oven is buzzing, time to take out the yams Next on my list, replace them with the ham Ham is now cooking, time to start fudge On Mom’s recipe card, an old chocolate smudge This […]
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Weekly Writing Challenge: Haiki #2
November 26, 2013 8 Comments
Warm sand between toes Ocean waves lull me to sleep Ouch, more sunblock please Related articles Weekly Writing Challenge: Haiku Catchoo! (dailypost.wordpress.com) Haiku for Inspiration (crankygiraffe.wordpress.com) A Haiku a day: Weekly Writing Challenge (myvoicerk.wordpress.com) Haiku For A Friend (crankygiraffe.wordpress.com) Haiku: The road to the North (jamescleggartwritings.wordpress.com)
[Continue reading...]Haiku: Weekly Writing Challenge
November 25, 2013 36 Comments
Fluttering soundless Colorful wings move with grace Quiet as they feast http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2013/11/25/challenge-haiku/ Related articles Haiku-Changing (brecore.wordpress.com) Haiku Catchoo (imagineimmortality.wordpress.com) Weekly Writing Challenge: Haiku Catchoo! (dailypost.wordpress.com) DP Challenge: Haiku (jeremymilburn.wordpress.com) Weekly Writing Challenge: Haiku Catchoo (adshayah151.wordpress.com) A Haiku a day: Weekly Writing Challenge (myvoicerk.wordpress.com)
[Continue reading...]If I were a turkey
November 23, 2013 Leave a Comment
If I were a turkey I’d start training in April to keep from becoming a Thanksgiving staple In May you would catch me honing my skill on how to avoid those missiles that kill There’d be classes on dodging a sharpshooter’s aim and how to outrun those arrows that maim In June I would learn […]
[Continue reading...]A year of blogging
November 21, 2013 12 Comments
Happy Anniversary to me! Today is November 21, 2013 and it was exactly one year ago today on an evening much like this one after church that I started my blog. It read: I’ve been contemplating starting a blog for a very long time. It’s been easy to put it off because I lead a […]
[Continue reading...]An empty suitcase
November 8, 2013 5 Comments
As I try to think of anything I can possibly do to avoid packing, I find myself here; sitting cross-legged in my comfortable chair with my notebook and pen poised and ready. I might as well jot down my thoughts. I get loopy in the 24 hours before I travel. Call it travel anxiety I […]
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Long walks and dark chocolate 