Category Archives: VIEW FROM MY SOAP BOX

enVISIONing A WORK-IN-PROGRESS

Posted on June 30, 2021 by Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner

Every writer has their own modus operandi when they begin a new project. Since my artistic abilities are rather lacking, I like to create a vision board. I browse magazines, scavenge for items in nature, snap photos, rifle through old … Continue reading →

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JOE DOG and LOLLIPOP – A Pandemic Memory

Posted on May 28, 2021 by Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner

JOE!

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A COSMIC DELICACY OF GALACTIC PROPORTION

Posted on March 24, 2021 by Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner

In a chocolate galaxy, far, far away, the Flavonol3-O-beta-glucoside O-malonyltransferase gather in a non-disclosed location deep within the dark nether regions of the cocoa nebulae. Their mission: to effect the fabrication of a product so bold, so intense, so indescribably … Continue reading →

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WHAT’S GOT MY GOAT TODAY? – The Pet Peeve That Got Away

Posted on January 28, 2021 by Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner

We all have strong opinions on one thing or another – the issues that get your goat. There are plenty to go around, right? I don’t think I need to list any. You know yours. I know mine. We probably … Continue reading →

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‘Tis Time For An Other ‘Twas

Posted on December 23, 2020 by Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner

‘Twas the day before Christmaswhen I realized this poem ’twas ready for the trash bin(after stifling a whopping groan).But then I asked myself, “What’s Christmas, without a fun ’twas?”So I grappled with this rhymer thinking, I’ll just add a disclaimer clause. Okay, there … Continue reading →

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IF YOU COULD TURN BACK THE SUNDIAL…

Posted on October 7, 2020 by Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner

…WOULD IT BE to a time when dropping into a rabbit hole was just that— a twisting tumble into a bottomless burrow, a spiralling spin down an endless earthen tunnel,

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SOMEONE PINCH ME – I Think I’ve Woken Up On Mars

Posted on September 9, 2020 by Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner

From my bed,waning moon glides across a velvet sky.A planet shimmers nearby,far above the earthandmy head. The Blue Marble rotates. Woke up 7:00 a.m.to pumpkin spice darknessodorlessit took only one dream and half a nightmareto travel theforty-three point seven five six million … Continue reading →

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A SUNDAY NOODLE

Posted on September 6, 2020 by Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner

If this is BEAUTY-FUL and this is

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WHAT THE ICEBERG SAID

Posted on July 31, 2020 by Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner

Bold. Blue. Megalithic. To think I might have begun as a whispered word on an ancient’s breath,a droplet in the spray of a neolithic sneeze, the spatter in a sputtered warning, “Run!”a single snowflake spit from a cloud, delivered on … Continue reading →

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TWO QUIRKS, A CONSIDERATION, AND A QUANDARY – a.k.a. Peculiar Pandemic Ponderings

Posted on June 25, 2020 by Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner

THE QUIRKS: My husband surprised me with blueberry pancakes for breakfast today, and for the first time ever, I noticed that I eat my pancakes in measured quadrants reminiscent of PHI, the law of divine proportion. Later, I nibbled on … Continue reading →