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Category Archives: Essay
NIGHTMARE ON UNTER DEN LINDEN – A Banned Books Week Tribute
It’s somehow fitting. The sweeping square is shrouded in silence, but for the dime-size drops of rain slapping the neatly laid cobbled stones under my feet. The typically bustling quad is empty too, except for the line of bicycles strung … Continue reading
GOOD MUSE HUNTING
Esteemed author Jane Yolen is well-known for sharing one secret in particular with regard to her productivity, and that’s – BIC – putting your Butt In Chair. Choose the time, the place, and show up. It’s where you need to be so that the muse can … Continue reading
SERMERSSUAQ UKARPALUGPOQ-An Earth Day Tribute
She weeps. She cries. She howls. She sighs at man’s inability to use his knowledge wisely. Sermerssuaq The Big Ice Greenland’s ice cap. Tropical blue melt-water lakes the size of small countries rest upon Mother Earth’s head. Creaking from their weight,
FIRST PERSON, PRESENT, TENSE
No. The commas are in the right place. I’m here. Alone. Now. And this is a tense moment. While I’m staring down at the narrow, dirt trail and maneuvering a mine field of rocks, roots, stone outcroppings, AND an occasional hilltop inhabitant catching a few rays I’m … Continue reading
Posted in ADVENTURES, Essay, HUMOR, LUCY and JAZZIE, WRITING CHALLENGES
Tagged adventure, author, Donna Weidner, first-person-present-tense, humor, thoughts on writing
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BLURRED VISIONS
It’s a black and white day – fitting for a journey to the past where yesterday easily blurrs with today where peering through dilapidated windows throws a muddied light
Posted in ADVENTURES, Essay, POEMS, ROAD TRIP, TRAVEL/PHOTO Themes
Tagged adventure, Ai Weiwei, Ai Weiwei Human Rights Exhibit, Alcatraz, author, Donna Weidner, DP, dp_photo_challenge/blur
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IN CELEBRATION
When my writers’ group, which I still fondly refer to as Seven Chicks On A Sunday Afternoon, decided that we needed a name, the Write Now Salon was born. The WriNoS (wait till they hear that one) gather once a month and party free write to champagne prompts … Continue reading
Posted in ADVENTURES, Essay, HUMOR, WRITING CHALLENGES
Tagged adventure, blog, Donna Lambo-Weidner, nursery rhymes, This Little Piggy, Write Now Salon, writer, writing prompts
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WORDSMITH 101*
Welcome to Wordsmith 101. In much the same way as a personal trainer’s fortitude and determination sculpts slabs of sagging flesh into taught, defined muscle and the swordsmith’s attention to detail forges a molten lump of steel into a keen, sturdy blade, so does a wordsmith wield the … Continue reading
