A WEE TASTE OF SCOTLAND

Posted on May 23, 2013 by

So, there’s a Scottish joke that goes something like this:

Angus had just returned from a holiday in Spain. When his friend Hamish asked him how it was, Angus answered, Continue reading →

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MENOPAUSE AND MONKEYS

Posted on April 26, 2013 by

What do you do at 3:28 AM when you’ve been lying awake since 2:37 AM plagued by tiresome night sweats and listening to your monkey-brain natter on about how you really need to get back to sleep only to have it go on to detail your life from the moment you began packing for a new adventure…

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MOTHER LOVE - a short story

Posted on April 22, 2013 by

Reblogged from Donna Gwinnell Weidner:

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Sweating and belching, the young mother rolls into the Emergency Room at precisely one minute before midnight. The attending physician’s eyebrows take on the appearance of his last patient’s electro-cardiogram just before she died.

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In honor of Earth Day, I decided to re-post this short story. I wish you and yours shiny rainbows today...and always.
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HE KNOWS WHEN YOU’VE BEEN NAUTICAL OR NICE

Posted on April 18, 2013 by

Sure enough—he was the real deal. And who did he think he was fooling with those shades? Certainly, not me. Incognito on a wind still summer’s afternoon—that’s what he was—a living, breathing, incognito San Francisco treat. Santa1But a cable car operator? As good a disguise as any, I suppose. They do come into contact with all sorts of people—naughty ones, nice ones… Continue reading →

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P-I-P * or A Poet’s Process

Posted on April 10, 2013 by

*POETRY-IN-PROGRESS
Cursor stabs on blank white screen
While “What will I write today?” loudly screams
(of course-screams are LOUD, unless, they’re silent)                                                                                             
screamWrithes Twists and thrashes about, bounces around my cerebral cortex Continue reading →

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ISN’T IT ICONIC?

Posted on April 3, 2013 by

“Grandfather, I have been looking for you,” the young Miwok said, stumbling upon the Shaman of his tribe.

From a distance, the old man looked like a stone replica of himself—standing tall and powerful, as he was meant to be. The early evening breeze at the top of Round Hill was chill. It swept the Shaman’s long, once raven black hair away from his chiseled face. Now the color of sea-foam, it danced in the wind. Continue reading →

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BEWITCHED, BOTHERED, and BEFUDDLED

Posted on March 27, 2013 by

I have always liked the sound of the word befuddled. It has a fairy tale quality to it. It’s what the three bears would have been when they came home to a messed up house or the frog prince when he was turned into, well, an amphibian.  Befuddled – dazed, bewildered, foggy, fogperplexed – Continue reading →

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