It seems I am not as forgiving as I thought I was. My instinct for this Open Call was to invite all my K-12 teachers, the bad ones and the good, including my mother, who home schooled my sister and me for the first few years… Read full post »

         Of all the books that have ever been dreamed, written, painted or carved, I wish I could have been the scribe for the words of the holy books of every religion. Perhaps, just perhaps, I might have had the opportunity to write th… Read full post »

Happy New Year!

I was making great progress on cleaning off my desk, which is my goal for today - that, and getting on my treadmill. SUDDENLY, and it has happened before to be sure, my final stack of papers became unavailable to me. 

I know, I know...  She works… Read full post »

On a cold October evening a few days from Halloween, the clear, evening sky was in the beginning stages of a total, lunar eclipse. My mother was in the hospital recovering from surgery to repair a hernia that had allowed part of her intestines to be where they should not.… Read full post »

I thought I would post an article I wrote in 1996 at the request of my alma mater, the University of Montana. I lived in Barrow, Alaska for seven years and have been up there several times since I moved away. I have great friends at the top of the world.… Read full post »

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Vainglorious (vayn-GLOR-ee-uhs) adjective

            Filled with, exhibiting, or proceeding from excessive pride, especially in one's achievements or abilities.

[From Latin vana gloria (empty pride), from vana, feminine of vanus (empty) + g… Read full post »

Here is Part Two. Thanks for reading and commenting! I look forward to reading what I don’t yet know about all of you!

#7          I have never gotten over the notion that honey is basically, bee spit.

#8        … Read full post »

I have not had time to write. I have been reading and commenting as much as possible, but not writing. Busy, busy. Thankfully, Fusun especially, has not given up on me!

It is late. I just sat down and learned about the Open Call for 12… Read full post »

Maraj (not her real name) & Wild Ways to Learn Words: 1

Challenges Lit Bright

Confronted with Heart Unbound

Peace Will Lie Within

Warmth Results in Spark

Buzz in a Quickening Mind

The Artist Creates

A Desire to Know

Does Not… Read full post »

            I tend to touch people as I talk, offer encouragement if the moment calls for it, or laugh at jokes. I like to laugh. A co-worker once told me that I was too happy, that I smiled too much. Smiled too much? How odd. He was stran… Read full post »

I just read Kirk Nielsen’s article, Can We Rescue the Republic Before the Dark Politics Take Over? which Matt Paust, a.k.a. ClarkK, linked in his recent Tribe post. Very interesting take on an assortment of woes.

The portion of the article about polarization in the U.S. seemed especially on… Read full post »

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Barrow, Alaska Visitor's guide

I lived in Barrow, Alaska for seven years and have been up there several times since.  If you are going to go somewhere, it might as well be to the… Read full post »

1.What is your favorite word?

My favorite word is hope. In fact, my mother has more than once called me “The Energizer Bunny of Hope.” I seem to be persistent, if not always at the highest speed.

2.   What is your least… Read full post »

            I wanted to put something positive in the feed, a small bit of cheer to counter the angst I see and feel emanating from people living and writing in this uncertain world.

          &n… Read full post »

On waters far from sunwashed shores

On the pirate ship known as Midnight Run

Drinking wine and rum, she called for more

Knowing abundance was in store

Diving for pearls, seeking treasure

The captain and crew, canons loud and long

Expecting… Read full post »

Being there for my friends is natural, like breathing.
I have learned my friends are there for me too, with a measure of support I treasure. Sociopaths can really diminish the light of life or a time.

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My Great-Aunt Betty Craft loved flowers and gardens. Having never learned to drive and with health issues that made driving not such a good idea anyway, Aunt Betty spent most of her days taking care of her plants and flowers in and around her Southern California home.

Some of… Read full post »

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Cantabrigian: (kant-uh-BRIJ-eeuh-n) adjective      

            1. Of or relating to Cambridge, England, or Cambridge, Massachusetts.    

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Fulsome: (ful-sum) adjective      

            1. Offensively flattering or insincere.      

            2. Offensive to the taste or… Read full post »

            Finally diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1989. Is MS killing me? Is it like Lou Gehrig’s? Leukemia? One of Jerry’s kids am I?

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 Of or related to acting.

The second five of a list of 10 books that made lasting impressions on me are:

6. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey

            Someone out to skirt the rules and have a little fun can be sucked dry by The Man!… Read full post »

The first five of a list of 10 books that made lasting impressions on me are:
 
1. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift

          Even the big and powerful can be brought down by the many.

 
2. On the Beach by Nevil Shute

 &n… Read full post »

The huge, angry burning cloud

Swirls and whirls above our heads

Growing bigger, blacker

Evidence of this horror stings

Smelling of ugly human mistakes

The burned ones are buried

Sadly, in a sea of garbage

When will they ever learn?… Read full post »