Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner

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 →

Posted in ADVENTURES, SHORT STORIES, WRITING CHALLENGES | Tagged adventure, author, cell phone, creative writing, Daily Post, Donna Gwinnell Weidner, DPchallenge, phoneography month, short story, writing challenges | 56 Comments

SOMETIMES, I FEEL LIKE MICHELANGELO

Posted on March 13, 2013 by Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner

No – not this Michelangelo

Nunchucks are not my thing – not yet, anyway.

Hmm…now, there’s a word that brings a picture to mind: Continue reading →

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PIGGYBACK WRITER

Posted on March 7, 2013 by Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner

Piggyback – a strange word – isn’t it? Have you ever seen a stack of pigs?

I could understand frogbacking, maybe…or Continue reading →

Posted in ADVENTURES, HOLIDAYS, HUMOR | Tagged adventure, Air New Zealand, author, blog, Donna Weidner, holiday, Pre-flight safety demonstration, Thomson, Virgin America | 8 Comments

BFFD – A Pet Peeve

Posted on March 1, 2013 by Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner

“Even you, Sir Richard Branson? You should be ashamed of yourself!” was my first thought, as I took my seat on Tuesday night’s Virgin America red-eye flight from San Francisco to Florida. I even mentioned it out loud. “Looks like I need to write Richard a letter,” I grumbled.

Why? Continue reading →

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HELL HATH NO FURY LIKE MS. MUFFET SCORNED

Posted on February 20, 2013 by Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner

This is a fable of blood and deceit—
Not for the faint-hearted, or stomachs that are weak.
The tale, its author, the unpopular Father Gander,
Was written from his viewpoint with unflinching candor.
This is the real story of an ogre, once sweet,
A sworn vegetarian—tricked—into eating raw meat. Continue reading →

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MOTHER LOVE – an Earth Day tale

Posted on February 13, 2013 by 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?” Continue reading →

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WALLS

Posted on January 30, 2013 by Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner

I once sat upon an ancient rock contemplating my life—my raison d’être—in this vast world of ours. When you find yourself—an itty-bitty pinprick, a teeny-tiny dot, hardly a smudge in the landscape—gazing upon the millions-of-years-old arctic ice cap, you can’t help but wonder.

Me in Awe at the Russell Glacier, Kangerlussuaq, Greenland in 2009

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UP

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

Where’s My Backpack is a travel-based blog that I have recently started following. Love it! And every week, Ailsa suggests a theme and invites her readers to share their own photo adventure.

No sooner had I read this week’s suggestion when it became clear to me how often I too look down at the ground when I’m walking out, about, and all over town. But then, who wouldn’t after having recently tripped over a curb and made a face plant onto a concrete sidewalk? After screaming softly muttering a chain of expletives that mimic figs, fudge, and fajitas into my hand,

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WHERE THE LOST SOCKS ARE

Posted on January 16, 2013 by Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner

This adventure has been rated OSFA, One-size-fits-all, by the International Knee-Sport-and-Leisure-Sock Association of Planetearth. Otherwise known as IKSLAP.

Have you seen this sock today?

MISSING-Last Seen Entering Dryer 12/12/12

After half a century of sitting on their hands, many members of CADS, the Center for the Abnormal Dematerialization of Socks, still refuse to accept that the daily disappearance of an inordinate number of the world’s socks is a problem of epic proportion. Continue reading →