Home Is Where the Art Is One Sunday all I had to do for the art show was to pick up a couple small things. The place was only 4.5 km. from home, so I walked. There and back was only 5.6 miles, a perfect walk on the first n…

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NaPoWriMo 2026, Day 12 Studio portrait of my uncle, undated, taken in Philadelphia My Uncle “Uncle Irv smells so good,”my children said. I don’t know what the scent was–I think it was simply him, a scentof kindness…

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Views of the Neighborhood – Lakeway Wilderness Run Today, we are going to see the Lakeway Wilderness Run, organized by Lakeway Parks and Recreation and Friends of the Park. The run takes place at the Greenbelt. We are catered by ABA of Austin. Our …

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Sometimes You Feel Like A Nut, Sometimes You Are One This week Imma take a look at a few items in the news and render a verdict of crazy or not crazy. Of course, finding news items that haven’t been volumized beyond credibility is no easy task.…

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NaPoWriMo 2026, Day 9 Martha, the last passenger pigeon, 1912. The Last Once they darkened the sky,for hours, they thundered,like meteors from heaven*devouring acorns, chestnuts—sometimes grain—miles-long flocks soundin…

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Freedom… For One – Friday Fictioneers Good Wednesday evening.... night?  'Tis the time the Friday Fictioneers prompt comes out and this week, our lovely hostess has chosen one of her own photos to inspire us.  Do have a go at playing along by clicking on my frog below and adding the link to your 100.  Not sure what that means?  Click on Rochelle's photo and sail on over to her site where all the 'splanations can be found...

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Good Wednesday evening.... night?  'Tis the time the Friday Fictioneers prompt comes out and this week, our lovely hostess has chosen one of her own photos to inspire us.  Do have a go at playing along by clicking on my frog below and adding the link to your…

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NaPoWriMo 2026, Day 8 Everything Has a Price We laugh about how my mom–at family dinners–always said, there’s more for them that wants, I’ve no idea where this odd phrasecame from but I smile at the optimism…

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Tuesday – Anything Possible – Finger Point Prompt – “Quality” Today I opened Eternal Road – The final stop to page 205. With eyes closed, I pointed to the page. The word closest to my finger is “quality.” No, that isn’t d…

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NaPoWriMo 2026, Day 7 Illustration by Sir John Tenniel, “Through The Looking Glass And What Alice Found There,”1870.     Make It So Heigh! Ho!See the April flowers grow.Hey diddle diddle,the world burns whil…

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Soft as Feathers the soft edges are frayed, folded paper, folded like wings, folded like feathers. I left a message for you in a book.It is like me to mark provocative phrases,to shake them out in ponderous verses.…

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Casting Best Laid Plans This is one of those fun posts where I invite you into my head without the need for a psychiatric referral. Since I let the BLP gang enjoy Easter with their respective posses, I decided to use the …

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NaPoWriMo 2026, Day 6 Dust jacket of “The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes”, American first edition, June 1927 Examine the Clues A living room, minebut not all my dead are there,father, mother, sister,Zipper-dog…

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Come, April Monday Morning Afternoon Musings Come, April my world is springing—pastel colors like Conversation Hearts, “Be Mine” the blossoms seem to say,the daffodils in cheerful yellow, a tulipwith flirting …

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Top Ten Things Not to Do on the First Tax Day in 1861. This post was first published on August 5th, 2019, which was the anniversary of the establishment of a tax to help pay for the Civil War. Since April 15th is coming up fast, I thought it mig…

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NaPoWriMo2026, Day 5 September Geese in Flight (2024) Turn it Down The noise!The incessant noise!I want to hear the birds sing,not the shrieks and whirrsof power tools and ATVs—I grind my teeth,my ears ring. I want to …

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NapoWriMo 2026-Day 4 That April Day, 2020 Anger, not simply sadnessin nature’s tears that fell,death-knells tolling,the air roilingand thick, world-sick,cyclonic streamsthrowing tantrums,to care too much,or not at all.…

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Speaking Of . . . It’s been a while since I dished up one of these posts. For those unfamiliar with the concept, it’s basically a rambling mess of a thing where one thought bleeds into the next until I r…

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NaPoWriMo 2026-Day 3 “People suffering from seasickness on board a steam boat. Reproduction of an etching after R. Seymour.”(Wellcome Collection). Some Things Never Change She’s lived many lives— a p…

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NaPoWriMo 2026-Day2 Vegetarian broth for matzo ball soup. Begin with This My sister and Iat the library with my mom,tiny seedlings, we standon the floor ventsin the children’s sectionso, our skirts becomeupside-down f…

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NaPoWriMo 2026-Day 1 April 1, 2026 plum blossom tulle,trees in bridal gowns renewApril’s cruel whimsy—daffodils arise amidstdeath, destruction, delusion It’s April 1, the start of Poetry month! This is a tanka for the …

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a man decides to go for a walk. Steve returns home — April 1,1983, a man decides to go for a walk. Around the world. — Steve Newman, 28, a freelance journalist, left his house in the town of Bethel, Ohio for a 4-year …

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