Category Archives: ADVENTURES

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 →

Posted in ADVENTURES, HUMOR, TRAVEL/PHOTO Themes | Tagged adventure, Airline, Airline Amenities, author, blog, Donna Weidner, Fort Lauderdale, humor, pet peeve, Richard Branson, San Francisco, Virgin America | 11 Comments

HELL HATH NO FURY LIKE MS. MUFFET SCORNED

Posted on February 20, 2013 by Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner

This is a fable of blood and deceit— Not for the faint-hearted, or stomachs that are weak. The tale, its author, the unpopular Father Gander, Was written from his viewpoint with unflinching candor. This is the real story of an … Continue reading →

Posted in ADVENTURES, HUMOR, POEMS, SHORT STORIES | Tagged adventure, author, Donna Weidner, fairy tales, giants, Little Bo Peep, Little Miss Muffet, nursery rhymes, ogres, poem, poetry, tale, Wee Willie Winkie | 6 Comments

MOTHER LOVE – an Earth Day tale

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

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 moment before her death. “What is it this … Continue reading →

Posted in ADVENTURES, TEACHINGS FROM THE FAR NORTH, WRITING CHALLENGES | Tagged adventure, author, blog, climate change, community, Donna Weidner, Earth Day 2013, environmental issues, love, Midway-a message from the gyre-by Chris Jordan, Mother Earth, short story | 58 Comments

WALLS

Posted on January 30, 2013 by Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner

I once sat upon an ancient rock contemplating my life—my raison d’être—in this vast world of ours. When you find yourself—an itty-bitty pinprick, a teeny-tiny dot, hardly a smudge in the landscape—gazing upon the millions-of-years-old arctic ice cap, you can’t … Continue reading →

Posted in ADVENTURES, TRAVEL/PHOTO Themes | Tagged adventure, author, blog, CHASING ICE, Donna Weidner, glaciers, Greenland, icebergs, ilulissat, Kalaallit Eskimo, Kangerlussuaq, TRAVEL Theme, wall | Leave a comment

WHERE THE LOST SOCKS ARE

Posted on January 16, 2013 by Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner

This adventure has been rated OSFA, One-size-fits-all, by the International Knee-Sport-and-Leisure-Sock Association of Planetearth. Otherwise known as IKSLAP. Have you seen this sock today? After half a century of sitting on their hands, many members of CADS, the Center for … Continue reading →

Posted in ADVENTURES, HUMOR, SHORT STORIES, SINGLE SOCK SUNDAY | Tagged adventure, author, Black hole, blog, Donna Weidner, Lakota, lost socks, socks, we are the same-we are different, writer | 21 Comments

Illumination

Posted on January 12, 2013 by Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner

The sun shows her face for only a moment, illuminating the way home, pointing out that we always have a choice…

Posted in ADVENTURES, TRAVEL/PHOTO Themes | Tagged adventure, Donna Weidner, Illumination, postaday, San Francisco, the daily post, weekly photo challenge, writer | 2 Comments

AUF WIEDERSEHEN – Until We Meet Again

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

RUTHLESS. What a curious word. And how did it ever come to mean ‘cruel, heartless, pitiless.’ Could it have been coined in a gal leaves guy country-western ballad—Cold and callous, she ground his heart like the butt of her Camel … Continue reading →

Posted in ADVENTURES | Tagged adventure, Barbara Lalicki, Beverly Cleary, blog, Donna Weidner, Gary Paulsen, Harper Collins Children's Books, HarperCollins, Retirement, Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, writer | 2 Comments

GOOD DAY MOON

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

On top of Round Hill, in a land called Marin, December’s sun coaxed a new day to begin. As she climbed, bit by bit, up into the sky, Sun noticed the Moon, waiting patiently nigh. “Is something wrong, brother?” she … Continue reading →

Posted in ADVENTURES, POEMS, SHORT STORIES | Tagged adventure, blog, daytime moon, Donna Weidner, full moon, good night moon, poem, poetry, thirteenth moon, writer | 16 Comments

JUMBLE ALL THE WAY

Posted on December 29, 2012 by Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner

A jumble is defined as an untidy heap—a farrago, a gallimaufry (try using those in Words With Friends). As far as my self-imposed deadline for my adventures in Blogdom is concerned, I’ve failed miserably. I’ve come up with bupkis—nada, nichts, … Continue reading →

Posted in ADVENTURES, HOLIDAYS, POEMS | Tagged 12 days of Christmas parody, Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner, Words With Friends | 5 Comments

To Camp, Or Not To Camp? That is the question…

Posted on December 14, 2012 by Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner

What self-respecting adventurer (adventuress just sounds wrong) can call themselves as such if they have never been camping? Being an adventure seeker as a child, I had always wanted to be a boy scout for exactly that reason. They got … Continue reading →