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Poetic Asides Poem-A-Day Challenge – Day 24 Prompt:Today's prompt is to use a photograph to create a poem. You can raid your dustyphoto albums, look through your daily newspaper, scour the Internet, etc. Butyou must use … -
A Life of Amazing Grace
Poem-A-Day Challenge, Day 4, from the Poetic Asides blog:The thankful/tribute poem can be dedicated to a person, an inanimate object, an idea, a day of the week, etc.On Friday, April 4, 2008, my grandmother, my Mimi, gr… -
Mimi
Amazing Grace.How Sweet the Sound.I Once Was Lost.But Now I'm Found.I am Persuaded.That Nothing.Shall Seperate Me.My Chains are Gone.I've Been Set Free.Like a Flood.His Mercy Rains.Unending Love.Amazing Grace.She was th… -
Doctor Seuss Would Be So Proud!
The way of the world today is hard on the English language. Text messages filled with abbreviated slang, chat-speak, and a surprising lack of punctuation have become the secret language of the next generation. I’ve bee… -
The Family Jewels
When my mom and her sisters were little, they lived in a sleepy little west Texas town. There was a family in that town that walked everywhere they went. They didn’t walk side by side, holding hands, chatting happily, … -
Spinning a Spooky Web
Last night was, of course, Halloween, and though we don't go in for the blood-and-guts monsters, or the walking-dead-flavor of fear, we do enjoy exploring the creepy nature of---well, nature.A year ago, we decorate the h… -
Branches on My Tree
Some of you may remember in my list of 8 Random Topics about Me preliminary post, that I listed the fact that I am the oldest child of three. Actually, I’m the oldest of five, if you count the two sisters my mother didn… -
Forty Years Ago Today
Today is my fortieth birthday. I'm not sure how I feel about it, part of me wants to celebrate, and part of me feels pretty emotional about it. Mid-life came awfully quickly, with it's wrinkles and aching joints. I've be… -
The Rhythm of Parenting Teenagers
CupsThis is how it goes:Clap, clap. Tap, tap, tap. Clap, grasp, move.Clap, grasp, twist-tap, down.Twist-grasp, slap, pass.My kids have been playing for at least ten years. Hours of practice, laughing and do-overs finall… -
Where I Keep All My Yesterdays
On October 4, 1986, the Caney River crested at 29 feet, and literally split the city of Bartlesville, Oklahoma in half for nine days. Unusually heavy rains in the latter part of September and first part of October that y…
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