OBJECT OF DESIRE

Posted on February 26, 2014 by Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner

The night our relationship began was like any other August evening in the San Francisco Bay area. Foghorns droned. Seals arp-arped. A chill fog rolled over, under, and around the Golden Gate Bridge, spreading its misty fingers into the nooks and crannies studding the bay’s coastline. It stretched all the way up to the Williams – Sonoma on Chestnut Street, forcing the store manager to close the shop’s double door early. He really hadn’t needed to hurry, since the moment she walked in, the temperature in the room rose at least ten degrees from the warmth her cherubic, rosy-cheeked face exuded. Continue reading →

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BREAKING SILENCE – A Pet Peeve Comes to Light

Posted on February 19, 2014 by Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner

“Just let it out Margo!” my daughter urged. She started calling me Margo at a young age, whenever yelling “Mom! Mom! Mom!” didn’t get my attention.

Clearly, she thought I had been keeping silent too long. An hour of heavy sighs, muted mumblings and grumblings might have been the tip-off. “No, it’s stupid. I’m being judgemental. A little thing like that shouldn’t bother me,” I said.

“Like you always tell me, Mom. Just do it!”

Just do it

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IN A NEW YAWK MINUTE

Posted on February 8, 2014 by Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner

litebulbWaking up to the 75th stunning, clear-blue, cloudless, 60 degree morning in a row last Saturday, Mr. Man and I shared a monumental moment of inspiration…

That’s when great minds that have lived together for over three decades whoa! in separate bodies meet in the ether swirling above their heads and their respective light bulbs merge together in a sudden burst of electromagnetic energy. The scientific term is a supernova. We call it a brain fart shared idea of epic proportion. Continue reading →

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BA DUM TSS!

Posted on January 30, 2014 by Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner

There are some things that I am not willing to share, like the road when there’s no guard rail to keep me from ending up at the bottom of a three thousand foot gorge, a bowl of Häagen-Daz cookies and cream, and my side of the bed when I’m having a hot flash.

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WEDDING BELLS ARE GONNA CHIME

Posted on January 25, 2014 by Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner

1948113_10200853741260817_305398386_nShe said, “Yes!”

Holy schlamoly! My baby girl is getting married! Where did the time go?

It seems like only yesterday, uh, last week, last month a short while ago that I had been asked the same question – 

This is where the picture gets all wavy with the *Twilight Zone theme song* in the background and we time travel to 1980 the evening when my husband proposed.

Picture this:

Two extremely young lovers exit their run-down quaint hotel onto a cobblestoned street. Continue reading →

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THE GOLEM OF DOUBT

Posted on January 15, 2014 by Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner

A golem is a monster – a shapeless creature made of earth – a hefty, hulking blob conjured into existence from a dimension seldom visited by human beings except, perhaps, in our nightmares. Once it has been called into this reality, the golem lumbers along doing its creator’s bidding. In my case, some silly, sub-conscious part of me managed, yet again, to summon this grotesque creature forth. She awakened this slumbering beast from the deepest, darkest corner of my psyche. My golem is not made of clay. It is a tangle of words, criticisms – and when it stalks me, it sows seeds of doubt in my conscious mind. Continue reading →

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THE CLASH OF TWO CHALLENGES

Posted on January 9, 2014 by Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner

Liesl wielded the cumbersome wand over the ancient cauldron with the agility of a lumberjack felling a sapling. Dwarfed by the knotted rod’s size, it was obvious why the young girl’s name had been first shortened to little Elisabeth, then to Lizzie, and finally to its present diminutive Germanic state.

Despite the fact that the petite figure’s name had been minimized to suit her stature, Liesl’s inherited gifts were far from small. Continue reading →

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2013 in Review

Posted on January 3, 2014 by Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog. They’ll be rewarded with a bunch of bananas, but you my readers, have my deepest thanks and a boatload of hugs!
Happy New Year everyone.
I wish you much health, love and prosperity in 2014 and always.
Cheers!

Here’s an excerpt:

A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 6,900 times in 2013. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 6 trips to carry that many people.

Click here to see the complete report.

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‘TIS a ‘TWAS

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

‘Twas the night I decided to write a ‘twas poem,
One week before Christmas when no one was home.
But for dream entrenched hounds, their paws all a’twitch,
The house was as still as the warts on a witch.

Reindogs sleeping 3

 I was still feeling grinchy, though everything’d been done—
From choosing a tree to the stockings that’d been hung. Continue reading →

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THE SWORD IN THE LAMP

Posted on December 11, 2013 by Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner

Today, the saber wielding mad scientist from my childhood dream of becoming a heroic do-gooder has been awakened from its decades long slumber in the depths of my sub-conscious mind by a lamp. Yes, a lamp.

me:lampNot the genie in the teapot kind of lamp, but one that mildly resembles the lava lamp made popular in the 1960’s – only it’s way cooler.
The lamp I’m talking about resembles a giant upside down test tube. It speaks to my inner scientist – that mad cap child who stayed up late at night growing tiny mountains of crystals in shallow petri dishes and mixing innocuous potions with her chemistry set – concoctions capable of disorienting wayward foes in a cloud of home-made purple haze. Continue reading →

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