Category Archives: ADVENTURES

MENOPAUSE AND MONKEYS

Posted on April 26, 2013 by Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner

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 … Continue reading →

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MOTHER LOVE – a short story

Posted on April 22, 2013 by Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner

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(c) Dreamstime.com 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 a…

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HE KNOWS WHEN YOU’VE BEEN NAUTICAL OR NICE

Posted on April 18, 2013 by Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner

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. But a cable car … Continue reading →

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P-I-P * or A Poet’s Process

Posted on April 10, 2013 by Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner

*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) … Continue reading →

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ISN’T IT ICONIC?

Posted on April 3, 2013 by Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner

“Grandfather, I have been searching for you all day,” the young Miwok said, stumbling upon his tribe’s Shaman. From a distance, the old man looked like a stone replica of himself—standing tall and powerful, as he was meant to be. The … Continue reading →

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BEWITCHED, BOTHERED, and BEFUDDLED

Posted on March 27, 2013 by Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner

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 … Continue reading →

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2 A.M.

Posted on March 18, 2013 by Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner

Today’s writing challenge hosted by The Daily Post at WordPress.com got my blog juices flowing. The prompt: It’s 2AM and your phone has just buzzed you awake, filling the room in white-blue LED light. You have a message. It’s a photo. No … Continue reading →

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SOMETIMES, I FEEL LIKE MICHELANGELO

Posted on March 13, 2013 by Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner

No – not this Michelangelo Nunchucks are not my thing – not yet, anyway. Hmm…now, there’s a word that brings a picture to mind:

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PIGGYBACK WRITER

Posted on March 7, 2013 by Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner

Piggyback – a strange word – isn’t it? Have you ever seen a stack of pigs? I could understand frogbacking, maybe…or

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BFFD – A Pet Peeve

Posted on March 1, 2013 by Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner

“Even you, Sir Richard Branson? You should be ashamed of yourself!” was my first thought, as I took my seat on Tuesday night’s Virgin America red-eye flight from San Francisco to Florida. I even mentioned it out loud. “Looks like … Continue reading →