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Tick Tock
Time melts tick tick tick away. Urgent tick tick taking with it last chances to hug, to love, to write. tick tick tick I see the sands of my life flowing down tick and yet tick tick tick I sit and stare doing nothing with this moment for fear tick tick of the next. This is another tribute to The Walking Man, whose poetry often inspires me. The challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to write a story […]
13 Words, more or less
This is pure word association. 1. Association 2. game 3. chess 4. queen 5. beauty 6. sunset 7. golden 8. years 9. time 10. flies 11. mosquitoes 12. smack! 13. ouch Check out my Association Meme. You could win a sliver ingot.
Ah Maria, Yes It’s War, But Besides That…
On August 29th, 1756, Frederick the Great invaded Saxony. It wasn’t his intention to start a Europe-wide war. He needed Saxony as a buffer for Silesia and as a jumping-off for an invasion of Bohemia. He did these things not to provoke Austria, but because he believed Austria intended to strike at him. With a Franco-Austrian treaty signed and sealed, he sounded out Austria as to her intentions. The answers he received were evasive and, to Frederick’s way of thinking, […]
286/365 How to Make a Crazy Quilt
I’m not a quilter. I’ve made three full-size quilts and three baby quilts, but I have yet to do it right. Nor do I intend to. I’ve tried the real way of doing it. All those titchy little details that can cause a quilt to warp and twist if you aren’t careful drive me nuts. Instead, I make crazy quilts. How to make a crazy quilt. Step 1: Acquire a large pile of scraps through the natural processes involved in […]
Where Socks Go
Jack: How come there’s only one black sock in the dryer? Jill: Don’t ask me. There were two when I put them in. I’m sure of it. Jack: Well the dryer must have eaten one, ’cause there’s only one in there now. Jill: I know. It’s like there’s a sock-eating black hole inside. Jack: Darling, looks to me like there might be more than one. Today’s theme is black Previously in Jack and Jill: Add Diction The rules for Photohunt […]
285/365 Rabbit Rabbit
I was going to do a peeps Maypole thing, but someone ate all the peeps. Maybe next year.
Suzie’s House 162: A Suggestion
Suzie marched upstairs, telling herself to stay calm. It wasn’t such a big deal. So far as she knew, neither boy had done anything yet. With any luck, it would stay that way for years, possibly even forever. And birds never had to land. She hurried. Her phone conversation with Drew hadn’t seemed long, but to her amazement the boys could get into trouble even faster.
