This Sunday I’m sharing something a little darker. I ran across a blog by a writer doing amazing and amazingly creative things. She is CL Muller at Daydreaming With Ink and Paper and she writes Fantasy, Dystopia, and Science Fiction. A little known fact about me is how much I love all of these genres yet I…
Month: August 2018
Alphabet Haiku Challenge: Hightail
Here is the Alphabet Haiku Challenge for “H” hosted by Dark Side of the Moon. Handsome hummingbird Hastily hovers – hightails! Hence hurried heartbeat.
Alphabet Haiku Challenge: Green
This is so fun! Thank you for the challenge, Dark Side of the Moon. Growing garden – Grow! Glean great green. Grow, garden, grow! Gah! Gnats!
Throw Back Thursday: Jakey
Since the start, I was looking for one name in all of these pages, and from the start, it would appear from time to time. Like when the very story Babu would tell me about her first time meeting him appeared, exactly how she told it to me, in the pages of her diary: Some…
Retro Wednesday: Diaries Part Two
I’ve been writing a bit about the physical dairies themselves. Check out these posts: Retro Wednesday: Diaries: Part One Throw Back Thursday: Advice Way to bury the lead, but the most interesting, an controversial thing in this diary study, is what was written on the diary pages themselves. The other older diaries shared important events…
Alphabet Haiku Challenge: Final
I have not forgotten about the Alphabet Haiku Challenge hosted by Dark Side of the Moon! Here is my “F:” Feline fur, feathers flying,…falling…fallen. Foe foiled -final feat.
Woodpeckers and Ancestors in the Garden
The last time I posted about my garden was here: April A-Z: Garden This isn’t a garden blog but talk of the garden fits here. Some times when I feel like I could float away in all the fears and negativity that can surround any person who is a caretaker, this garden anchors me. Not…
Andy Jablonski, Give It Up!
Monday, September 30th, 1940 After supper I took a bath and got dressed for choir. We gave a party for Mary Cyron who is to be married soon and what a time we had! Had fun with most all the boys but Andy Jablonski kept pretty close to me all evening calling me darling and…
Sunday Share: Kitsch
I’m not sure if I have shared this blog before. If I haven’t, well then it’s about time! I get almost the same amount of glee reading this blog as I do with Babu’s diary project. (Understandably not the same amount of glee but it’s a wonderful blog!) The blog is titled The Pretty and…
Throw Back Thursday: Advice
I am about to have a lot to say about the advice given with in the pages of Babu’s diary. Next Wednesday’s “Retro Wednesday” post is going to be the second half of my study into they diaries themselves. I was just reminded of an old passage and I will link it here: Cooperate with…
Retro Wednesdays: Cocktails: Part Two
Here is part one from two weeks ago: Retro Wednesday: Cocktails As The Rescued Photo keeps finding out information about the “extras” in these pages like Stanley Midura and Milton Adams, I keep finding out about what Babu says she’s drinking. In January, 1941, Babu writes: Teddy gave us some straight Golden Wedding yesterday and…
Just a Little Update :)
On Friday I got news. I am hired for for an ELA teaching position at a new school in a town close to me. It is a small school, thirty kids, and they have social emotional diagnoses. These are not easy students to work with as trauma and mental health issues can make giving instruction…
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