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  • “It was twenty years ago today…”

    Sometimes a shouting match ended with a loud barking. Dodger didn’t allow the boys to argue.  Read more

  • Rainbow Sails

    This is soooooo political. Not pro Trump at all. Read more

  • Twin Angels

    We were just about the most normal and boring single parent family in the world. Read more

  • Traffic Stop Fundraiser

    Everything in that car made me look guilty of something. I saw the cop look inside.  Read more

  • End of Spring Break

    I have to go back to work today. I’ve enjoyed being off all week and posting daily. I got to participate in my morning writing group for the last ten days, it was wonderful to be able to write in community. For almost two years, we’ve been writing together, it’s such a joy when I Read more

  • To my People in Portugal

    It’s the smallest, yet ugliest yard I’ve ever owned. Read more

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  • Oracles

    Nobody understands oracles anyway. The words don’t make sense until somebody dies or after a catastrophe happens.”

  • Post New Year’s Day Analysis

    “Aren’t you supposed to party with pretty plates and finger foods on New Year’s day?” “You’re supposed to put out all these pretty snacks and have your friends over and drink champagne and talk about all the disappointment you got at Christmas.” “You’re supposed to be putting away the Christmas tree, running the sweeper, doing…

  • January 1, Writing Prompt

    Jan 1 Writing Prompt I didn’t make this one up. “What chances in my life did I let go or didn’t take?” This is the stuff that four a.m. monologues are made of. I laugh in the face of such insolence, ha. Should we include the stupid alternative choices I made as well? I should…

  • New Year’s Resolutions

    Don’t make any, They have no power, no grip That’s not exactly true You always remember them, no matter what you do. It’s a boundary thing. Put your head down and go face first into the maelstrom, get it over with Like shots, jabs, injections When I was in my forty-fives, I swan dove into…

  • Karma Whispers

    God, if you say one more weird thing about something, You’ll get punched.