Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?

Posted on June 14, 2013 by Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner

A musician, an artist, a doctor, a pilot? This is a question we all, as children, have been asked. Even though now we are legally and biologically adults, this is a question many of us are still seeking the answer to, probably because we need to define grow up first.

Is there really a specific age one needs to be to be deemed a grown up? Is it eighteen, twenty-one, thirty? Is one grown up when s/he has found a suitable job or chosen a profession? Or is it a state of maturity? Now there’s a concept! That could take forever. OR – Continue reading →

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GOT BUPKIS?

Posted on May 29, 2013 by Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner

I do. I got bupkis. I got nada, nix (actually it’s nichts), nothing. I’ve walked the pooches, cleaned the house, done the laundry, and started reading THE GIVER all in an attempt to come up with an idea for today’s blog. I even thought that if I simply started writing, forcing that dratted blinking cursor across the screen, my Muse would drop in, as she always has in the past, and just take over. But noooooo – no Muse – just Bupkis. Could she have stayed behind in Scotland? Continue reading →

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A WEE TASTE OF SCOTLAND

Posted on May 23, 2013 by Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner

So, there’s a Scottish joke that goes something like this:

Angus had just returned from a holiday in Spain. When his friend Hamish asked him how it was, Angus answered, Continue reading →

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MENOPAUSE AND MONKEYS

Posted on April 26, 2013 by Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner

What do you do at 3:28 AM when you’ve been lying awake since 2:37 AM plagued by tiresome night sweats and listening to your monkey-brain natter on about how you really need to get back to sleep only to have it go on to detail your life from the moment you began packing for a new adventure…

Photo credit: kuuleilani.wordpress.com

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MOTHER LOVE – a short story

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

In honor of Earth Day, I decided to re-post this short story. I wish you and yours shiny rainbows today…and always.

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 time?” he says.

“My temperature is rising,” she rasps.

“Sweat streams like rushing rivers down my face. My feet burn. I can hardly breathe and my mouth is as dry as the Grand Canyon in August.”

His eyebrows cinch. “Has the stabbing pain in your lungs worsened since last you were here?”

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HE KNOWS WHEN YOU’VE BEEN NAUTICAL OR NICE

Posted on April 18, 2013 by Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner

Sure enough—he was the real deal. And who did he think he was fooling with those shades? Certainly, not me. Incognito on a wind still summer’s afternoon—that’s what he was—a living, breathing, incognito San Francisco treat. But a cable car operator? As good a disguise as any, I suppose. They do come into contact with all sorts of people—naughty ones, nice ones… Continue reading →

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P-I-P * or A Poet’s Process

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

*POETRY-IN-PROGRESS
Cursor stabs on blank white screen
While “What will I write today?” ~~loudly~~ screams
(of course-screams are LOUD, unless, they’re silent)
~~Writhes~~ Twists ~~and~~ ~~thrashes about, bounces around my cerebral cortex~~ Continue reading →

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ISN’T IT ICONIC?

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

“Grandfather, I have been searching for you all day,” the young Miwok said, stumbling upon his tribe’s Shaman.

From a distance, the old man looked like a stone replica of himself—standing tall and powerful, as he was meant to be. The early evening breeze at the top of Round Hill was chill. It swept the Shaman’s long, once raven black hair, away from his chiseled face. Now the color of sea-foam, it danced in the wind. Continue reading →

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BEWITCHED, BOTHERED, and BEFUDDLED

Posted on March 27, 2013 by Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner

I have always liked the sound of the word befuddled. It has a fairy tale quality to it. It’s what the three bears would have been when they came home to a messed up house or the frog prince when he was turned into, well, an amphibian. Befuddled – dazed, bewildered, foggy, perplexed – Continue reading →

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2 A.M.

Posted on March 18, 2013 by Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner

Today’s writing challenge hosted by The Daily Post at WordPress.com got my blog juices flowing. The prompt: It’s 2AM and your phone has just buzzed you awake, filling the room in white-blue LED light. You have a message. It’s a photo. No words, no explanation. Just a photo. Tell us all about it. And what happens next..

QUACK! QUACK! QUACK!

I love my ring tone, but not at 2 A.M.

Every hair on my body, including the fine almost non-existent ones behind my knees, jumps to attention. There isn’t a down comforter in the world capable of warming the chill running through me. Something must be terribly wrong. Continue reading →