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Tiara Tuesday

Yes, Tiara Tuesday is a thing. If you know me, you already know this. I’m wearing my delicate little pink one today. It’s been my recent go-to. It’s quite sparkly, but I may yet go bigger… now that my last Zoom is done 😉 I’ve been feeling like an old lady recently, AND like a…

Tickled…

She is not an island. No one is the tide.  “Tidal Island” – one art poetry

Dolfins

The other night, no sooner did I sit down after dinner to a little list making and channel surfing, than I stumbled onto Pretty in Pink on basic cable. This happens often enough. I’ve certainly seen it multiple hundreds of times. Not settle-in-with-the-popcorn-style times, but I can quote a line or two. It’s maybe not…

Manuscripting

Have I told you lately about my surprise manuscript? I’m saying it here, now, so I can’t chicken out, and I say “surprise” because it ambushed me this spring. I had utterly no choice but to learn how to self publish. Now at what seems like long last, and after much trial and error and…

Yes.

Glass half full or empty? Yes. Today was a very good day. I even did all my grading. But it didn’t start out that way. I woke up super prickly but pushed on through, literally just went through the motions to begin… It turned out fairly awesome, so awesome that I forgot to eat until…

Flashback Friday – Overheard

“For all I know, these ARE the good old days.” overheard Do you find that you have too many good old days to remember? I love the way they sometimes flutter back to mind and make you stop and wonder… what ever happened… I did something this week that I haven’t done in more than…

Happinesses

Happiness, you are the bright red lining Of the dark winter coat Grief wears inside out. “Romantic Sonnet” by Charles Simic I never tire of this quote. I come back to it as often as I like. It took me a long time to memorize, so now I know also exactly where to find it.…

Yesterday

a new poem from yesterday with a little Throwback Thursday in it 😉 Dear Sedan of Mine – Day 410 It’s true: I finally paid you off this winter after five long years of chasing due dates and interest, and here we are again in the alley, having never celebrated, your engine almost ticking as…

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