Not many people write sonnets any more and even less write them well. At the blog Andy Maudling Writes you will get exactly that, great writing. Here is a little taste: In Line Sunday Sonnet We evolve to understand ourselves, To know we know much less. Like books, we sit in line on shelves; Each spine becomes…
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Sunday Share: Alphabet Haiku and a Photo Challenge
I got wrapped up in challenges this month. I wasn’t looking for any, I swear! But first came around Alphabet Haiku. Did you know that Haiku was originally, and still should be if it’s not, considered a form of meditation? I wrote one just for fun and then I saw that I could do it! …
Sunday Share: My Own Private Lilliput
I have been following Subatomic Tourism’s blog for quite a while. I make a little pit stop, enjoy my time, and go about my day with a smile. It’s a curious little blog. It’s certainly different and it will be possibly difficult to explain why I like it, but I absolutely love it. Some of…
Sunday Share: Whispers in the Dark
I recently found Beau Allen’s poetry blog. It is fully of finely crafted poems and I genuinely encourage you to click on the link and read them. The post I link to is about a collection called Whispers in the Dark. These poems do indeed have a darkness and even in the ones where no…
Sunday Share: Where Do I Begin?!
I clicked around looking for a blog to share for this Sunday. Yes, I am happy to say I am bringing Sunday Share back! I stopped by this blog and my first thought was that I loved the poem on…the cover page? It was the best argument about the pros and cons on the digital…
The Set Up: Vote for your favorite vintage photo
Yay! Woot Woot! This is my 300th blog post. What a journey this has been. And I’m still in love with it all. I would like all of you to help me with a 300th post celebration. I need your involvement! Tomorrow’s post will show all of the vintage images I have posted so far…
Sunday Share: Visual, Please?
I like to follow as many visual artists and their blogs as possible because sometimes I am too bogged down in words, words, words. This blog from creartfuldodger showcases spectacular artwork in one of may favorite forms, collage. Check it out! I liked this post in particular as it reminded me of my post Hindenburg…
Writing Wednesdays #1: Sucker for Alteration
This is the new weekly installment: Writing Wednesdays! Why? Because I am a sucker for alteration? No. Because I can feel myself filling up, flooding with concepts, inspirations, and ruminations on this craft of mine that I still know nothing about. Because I write to learn, mostly about myself, and I need to reflect and…
July, 1937
There is much to celebrate in the heat of July. Babu says that she will “melt like a piece of wax one of these days,” yet things move along swimmingly. (Kind of.) All About Benny: The month begins with the sentence: I guess I needn’t have worried about Benny. She didn’t know if he would…
Excerpts: May, 1937 “It was almost the end.”
Almost a tragic end: Thursday, May 13th, 1937 Such a night. I was reading under the parlor lamp and the doorbell rings. Mother comes in with a young man. She flops on the sofa and just sits there. Finally, we find out she was struck or grazed by this young man’s car. Thank heavens! It’s…
Did You Miss It? I Sure Didn’t!
Were you laughing when you read Saturday’s post? You may have missed a few things if you weren’t. Check it out: Excerpts April, 1937 Babu always has a way of writing something off hand, explaining nothing, and leaving me saying “Whhhaattt?” Let’s look at April 15th again: “John came in after 12 and started playing…
April, 1937
In April, 1937, she has just turned 19, is in college to be a secretary, has best friends Ernie and Zosh. Sometimes I do that to center myself because as we speak I am down stairs with her “doing breakfast” and she is 98, has had four kids, needs help with making food, unlacing her…
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