Mothership
- Location
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Birthday
- January 04
- Title
- Cinderellen
- Company
- Enjoyable, I would hope...
- Bio
- First 19 years: Peoria, Illinois. During years since, I've lived alternately between Iowa and Illinois. Each relocation required that I set my wristwatch backward, or forward, 100 years, respectively.
I am pleased to report that I have once more, returned to my home state, but reserve to option to relocate, if circumstances lead me elsewhere.
I am an artist and poet by nature; a health care professional by necessity.
My main claim to fame, for purposes of this forum, is that it is my great privilege and honor to be the female component of the bio-pair that co-created our singularly stellar muse, Verbal Remedy.
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “Walter- Fun! I'd
forgotten about these...my mom
used to spoon
chili and
chopped o…”
10:47AM - “Amy- Deepest condolences
to you and your
children.”
February 05, 2010 06:31PM - “VR- I am so happy that
you are finally a part of an
honorable
organization that
p…”
February 05, 2010 06:21PM - “My own girl shows me up
in the kitchen, every time.
I'm
reduced to a
"Wannab…”
February 05, 2010 06:00PM - “Buffy-
Ohhhhhhhhh!
"...inside my
brain you will have me (like
every other tim…”
February 05, 2010 05:44PM
Mothership's Links
- New list
- No links in this category.
- YUTZ Chronicles - Comic Adventures in Small Town Living
- Big Doins' in YUTZ: 2010 BEEFCAKE CALENDAR
- Picture=1000 Words?
- Small Town Living: Two Perspectives
- Bowling in a Small Town
- Original Art
- Art from Photos: Nice, France
- Art from Photos: Florence and Rome
- Art from Photos: Amalfi Coast and Pizza
- Art from Photos: Barcelona and Pompeii
- Sunday Sampling: Framed Art
- BLUE MONDAY-original art
- SUNday
- Sunny Sunday Shots
- Art: Pastels & Photo Iterations
- Originals to Digital Iterations
- Originals to Digital Iterations (2)
- Word Weavers (Irish heritage poem) & Art Sampling
- Poetry
- War of the Words
- Chasing the Dragon
- On the Fence
- Frigid Sunday Morning Reflections
- What Becomes of the Broken Hearted? - The Price of Betrayal
- Tattered Curtains
- Rain on the Desert
- Deep End
- Apothocary
- Hard Edges
- For the Musicians
- Eighth Wonder
- Private Pirouette
- Technicolor Shelter
- Bear Necessities
- Crystaline Cache
- Flare
- Top Down
- Mind of Its' Own
- Iron Marshmallow
- More Than a Few Good Men
- Midas Touch
- Nowhere Man
- Solo Act
- Everyday Eden
- Life in Sync
- Unstrung Pearls
- Fire and Ice
- Archangel
- Masterpiece
- My Unicorn
- Aftermath
- Ladies In Waiting
- Dichotomy
- Internal Garden
- Flintstrike
- Interwoven
- Summer Youth Memoir
- '60s to 60's Love Story
- Adornment
- Confetti (on insanity)
- Stillwaters
- Never Too Late
- Carousel
- Beloved Departed
- Drama Queen
- Four Left Feet
- Positive Negative
- Rainbow's End
- Milady
- Haiku Thursday Posts
- EN POINTE'
- Smokey Sang It Wrong
- Crates
- More or Less
- New Year's Haiku: Back to the Future
- Treasured Volume
- Night Moves...Then as Now
- Gift
- Clap If You Believe
- "IT"
- Side-by-Side
- Beside Myself
- Shall We Dance?
- Disembodied Voice
- Ms. Dumpty Aspirations
- Old Friend
- Mountain Winds
- Blue Blood
- The Glowing
- Beyond Fingertips
- Pay It Forward
- Playground
- Pre-Fourth Edition
- Warning
- Music Man
- Be My Moses
- Use It or Lose It
- Damaged Vessel
- Foodie Tuesday Recipes
- Catcher in the Rye Appetizers
- Ellen's Onion-Garlic CHEX Mix
- Truffle Custards with Crab and Caviar
- Salad Nicoise
- Stuffed Delica Squash
- Pesto Manicotti
- French Onion Soup
- Pepperoni, Lentil and Pasta Soup
- Senate Bean Soup with Ham
- Crab, Bacon and Portabella Sandwiches
- Beyond Best Baked Beans
- Reuben Meatloaf
- Succulent Stroganoff
- Eggs in a Cup
- Baked Brie
- Cherry Tomato-Feta Skewers
- Chicken Breasts Supreme
- Sausage Breakfast Casserole
- Pecan, Caramel, Crescent Swirl
- Scrumptious Seafood Salad
- Homemade Pesto
- Miscellaneous
- If Nothing Changes, Nothing Changes: USA 1900-1999
- For Cryin' Out Loud
- SADD (Seasonal Affective Depressive Disorder) Got You Down?
- Outing Myself
- OS: We Are Writers
- Holiday First: Grief-The Uninvited Guest
- Valuing the Elderly: A Matter of DOLLARS, CENTS and (nanoo-nanoo) NONSENSE
- Frost's Fences Make Good Neighbors...Relationships Too!
- Tapping the Wisdom of Solomon
- Addiction: The Altered Brain
- Addiction~When Helping Hurts: Detachment with Love
- Be As The Cypress and The Oak
- The Wait
- The Road Less Traveled: 50 Things I've Never Done
- 9/11: From a Distance
- Captain Obamaroo
- The Play's The Thing
- The Mountains Weep. The People Wail. The Nation MUST Rage.
- Fantasy OSland Library
- Reciprocal Respect Will Get You Somewhere
- One Health Professional's Take on Managed (Mangled) Care
- Playing for OS
- Thank You OS, for The Daylight
- Joan in the Lion's Den
- Sink, Swim or Rescue? (analogy re:corporate bailouts)
- Why Can't I Get a Decent Friggin' Haircut?
- 60's Songs-Top 100-Year by Year
- In Honor of All Who Have Served-American Casualties of War: 1775 to Present
- Humor
- G.W. Reflects-One Year Later
- Dragon Slayer
- Political Pearls from Will
- Saturday Night: Sixties Datin- Date meets Dad
- Ladies In Waiting (Poetry)
- Mid-June Rant: I Curse and Defy You, Weather Gods
- Senior Housing Hilarity
- Courtroom LOLs
- Market Schmarket-Sometimes Ya Just Gotta' Laugh Out Loud
- Autobio
- Many Me
- Happy Birthday, Baby!
- Outing Myself
- Sequel: Love in the Best of Times- Tales of Two Good Men
- Love in the Worst of Times...Love in the Best of Times
- My Firsts
- For Mom on the Second Anniversary of Her Death
- In my Daughter's Eyes
- Rolling Like Thunder: A Love Story
- Prelude to VR
- Prelude to VR(2)
- Prelude to VR(3)
- Prelude to VR(4)
- Prelude to VR(5)
- My Sons in Whom I am Well Pleased
- Wee Irish Lass Demonstrates Gift of Gab (humor)
- One for Mom...and...One for Dad
- Lessons from Dad
- Something About Mary
- 25 Things to Help You Get to Know Me
- My Near Death Experience
- Yesterday's Headline: Not So "New" News (troops & tragedies of WAR)
- On Parenting a Parent (narrative & poem)
- To Thine Own Self Be True
Haiku Thursday: Blue Blood
Oh, I’m bleeding blue
The exact shade of your eyes
Reciprocal Respect Will Get You Somewhere
It is evident that reasonable, well-informed individuals may examine an issue and come to differing conclusions. Neither is wrong. Each has formulated his/her opinion by interpreting relevant information. Each opinion is valid simply because it is based upon… Read full post »
Foodie Tuesday: Succulent Stroganoff
LIFE IN SYNC
To them
I once crooned lullabies
and sang of short, stout teapots
and itsy-bitsy spiders.
Lifting them,
with miniature arms and legs
wrapped from my&n… Read full post »
SUNday
UNSTRUNG PEARLS
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My Life
a collection
of unstrung pearls,
mementos of
people, moments, emotions,
glowing warm.
Most
a simulated patina,
coating something
always precious.
Others
the&n… Read full post »
Haiku Thursday: The Glowing
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Twilight settles in
Hues are brightened as they fade
To glow from within
FIRE AND ICE
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Have mercy.
Send some word.
The wondering
is excruciatingly slow
in its dismantling of my soul.
Have mercy
so that I,
freed from uncertainty,
may at long&n… Read full post »
ARCHANGEL
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Forgive me
if I appear to hesitate,
for in the past
I have
danced with the devil.
That legacy
only now
mostly shaken
through
will and solitude
may have left me
super diligent
and yet...
I know you,
weaver of dreams,… Read full post »
We Not Only Survived, We Thrived...
Looking
back, it's hard to believe that most of us from my
generation
lived beyond our childhoods.
As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts… Read full post »
Sunny Sunday Shots
MASTERPIECE
but take this love
in all its’
momentary intensity
and lay it
to acid-free stock
each line
and curve
and shape
and perspective
and brilliant hue… Read full post »
Open Call : Firsts (Response)
1. Who was your FIRST prom date? Junior Prom: Dave DeTrempe, because his girl was an underclassman and not allowed to attend. Senior Prom(s): Verbal Remedy's birth-father. We attend three: mine, his current school and his former school.
2. Who was your FIRST
… Read full post »My Unicorn
when your eyes seared mine
That first instant
when your hand… Read full post »
Dirty Haiku Thursday: Beyond Fingertips
I reach out once more
To grasp the most elusive
AFTERMATH
You raged in,
charging the very air
with your electric relentless presence,
your words torrential,
overpowering,
tearing, battering, dismantling
my carefully crafted&
… Read full post »Foodie Tuesday: Eggs in a Cup
1 teaspoon butter
4 ½ ounce ham slices
8 large eggs
salt and pepper to taste
8 tablespoons heavy cream
8 tablespoons grated swiss or cheddar cheese
3 teaspoons chopped chives
… Read full post »
One Health Professional's Take on Managed (Mangled) Care
I begin this serious post with a bit of sick humor (pun intended):
Three American physicians expire on the same day, in short order, and are greeted, in tandem, at the Pearly Gates by
… Read full post »For Mom on the Second Anniversary of Her Death
Mom: Age 3
Born March 16, 1926, Mom, formerly of Peoria, IL, died on Thursday, July 26, 2007, in the Naperville area, following a long illness and complications from emergency surgery.
Mom was a graduate of the Academy of Our Lady, Peoria, class of '44.… Read full post »
Ladies In Waiting
It seems we've kissed a thousand frogs.
Contrary to reports,
not one has turned into a prince.
We've just collected warts.
No matter if he'/… Read full post »
Dirty Haiku Thursday: Pay It Forward
Do pay it forward
That which I have just bestowed
DICHOTOMY
There's
a silence
that deafens,
a vision
that blinds,
an absence
of touch
that bruises deep,
a mangled heart
which cannot bleed,
a sorrow
relentless
in … Read full post »
Big Doins' in YUTZ: 2010 BEEFCAKE CALENDAR
JULY 2009Proofs:
Headshots & Personals
for proposed 2010 YUTZ, IA
BEEFCAKE CALENDAR
MR. JANUARY: Buford Fergus Nerk
Interests and… Read full post »
Foodie Tuesday: Baked Brie
butter
pecans
apples, slices (for scooping)
large green or black olives, optional
french bread or crackers, optional
1. Place cheese on oven proof plate (a pie plate works well). Spread top with butter; cover/…
INTERNAL GARDEN
Nestled deep
and nourished
by blood,
the seeds
continue
to take root.
A potential
lavish garden
through neglect,
overgrown and choked
by … Read full post »
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Donna Carbone
Catherine Al-Meten
Professor Emeritus Peter Bagnolo
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