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CONFESSION OF A LATE IN LIFE WRITER
Have you ever felt like a unicorn? The odd-one-out? The rarity in the herd? In the children’s book writer’s world, I have. Unlike many of my contemporaries, I didn’t spend lazy summer days, dark, stormy nights, and every other waking … Continue reading
Posted in ADVENTURES, CHILDHOOD, Essay, PONDERINGS, WRITING CHALLENGES
Tagged adventure, Cinderella, Clifford the Big Red Dog, D. G. Lambo, D. G. Lambo-Weidner, Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner, Donna Lambo-Weidner, Grimm's Fairy Tales, Gulliver's Travels, Kon-Tiki, Scholastic Book Club, The Seven Voyages of Sinbad, The Thousand and One Nights, The Three Musketeers, Treasure Island, unicorns
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ALIEN THOUGHT FOR A FOGGY DAY
Despite all of the previous hoaxes, he was sure the latest video of a UFO hovering over the park was the real thing. Waking up to a low-pitched hum and suspended in viscous gel the shade of mouldering bread instead … Continue reading
CHOOSE A BOOK-TURN TO CHAPTER EIGHT-BEGIN WITH LINE EIGHT
She just couldn’t figure out what that something was. Had it risen from the cooling embers when she turned and reached for her fleece? Besides the chill that launched goosebumps up her back, spread them across her neck, and down … Continue reading
DRAWING A BLANK
This Page This Blank Page This Spotless, Blank, White Page Why is it so terrifying? So intimidating? So daunting?
FOOD FOR ‘HERE AND NOW’ THOUGHT
Ichiro snores. The fog horn blows. My feet are cold and the fragrance of lilies on the kitchen counter drifts into the living room where I stare at the precarious position of my teacup on the edge of the coffee table while pondering this run on sentence the … Continue reading
TASTE OF INDIA – Jammin’ on the Streets
Car horns honk. Motorbikes beep. Tuk-tuks toot. The wave of sound winds down as the steel herd halts for a red signal, then builds again when the traffic light turns green and the swarm surges forward. The pack pushes through the streets of Delhi … Continue reading
KALAALLIT NUNAAT – Sound of Silence
Nature will do it every time – fill me with a sense of awe that is jaw-dropping. And she did not disappoint as our helicopter rushed over the spare landscape toward Ittoqqortoormiit. In summer, the remote village in East Greenland hugs the rocky shore of … Continue reading
Posted in ADVENTURES, ARCTIC WONDER, ROAD TRIP, TRAVEL/PHOTO Themes, WRITING CHALLENGES
Tagged adventure, arctic travels, author, blog, dog sledding Greenland, Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner, dp_discover_challenges/adventure, dp_photo-challenges/silence-2/, dp_photo_challenge/spare, Ittoqqortoormiit
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THE SOUP INVADER
Of all the things I expected to find in my tomato soup, this wasn’t one of them. A few seeds so small they’d slipped through the strainer unnoticed? Perhaps. A bit of chopped onion that had stuck to the pot and avoided being puréed … Continue reading
