Illumination

Posted on January 12, 2013 by Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner
Show Me The Way To Go Home

Show Me The Way To Go Home

The sun shows her face for only a moment, illuminating the way home, pointing out that we always have a choice…

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AUF WIEDERSEHEN – Until We Meet Again

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

RUTHLESS. What a curious word. And how did it ever come to mean ‘cruel, heartless, pitiless.’ Could it have been coined in a gal leaves guy country-western ballad—Cold and callous, she ground his heart like the butt of her Camel with the heel of her boot—Leaving him to drown in shots of bourbon and vermouth—Yes, Ruth cut him loose on that fateful day—she left him RUTH-LESS—RUTH-LESS, lost, and astray.

When I recently read in Publishers Weekly that Barbara Lalicki,

photo by Tom Lalicki

photo by Tom Lalicki

senior vice-president and editorial director at HarperCollins Children’s Books, is retiring at the end of this month, I had a similar thought.

No! Not that Barbara has anything to do with being ruthless. Continue reading →

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GOOD DAY MOON

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

On top of Round Hill, in a land called Marin,
December’s sun coaxed a new day to begin.

SUN

As she climbed, bit by bit, up into the sky,
Sun noticed the Moon, waiting patiently nigh.

28 December 2012

Full Daytime Moon – 28 December 2012

“Is something wrong, brother?” she sighed on the breeze. Continue reading →

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JUMBLE ALL THE WAY

Posted on December 29, 2012 by Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner

A jumble is defined as an untidy heap—a farrago, a gallimaufry (try using those in Words With Friends). As far as my self-imposed deadline for my adventures in Blogdom is concerned, I’ve failed miserably. I’ve come up with bupkis—nada, nichts, zip! I’ve missed not one, but two of my promised Wednesday postings.

Every day, over the past twelve days, as hard as I have tried to be eloquent, yet funny—profound, yet humorous—insightful, yet witty—all I’ve managed to produce is a humungatoid medley of miscellaneous hodgepodge:

12 Paragraphs started

11 Different themes

10 Poems in free verse

9   Rhyme so poorly, it’s enough to make you scream—

8   Describe feeling Grinchy

7   Are about being a Scrooge

6   Relate to self-imposed holiday stress

5   Are thoughts on The End of the World

4   Are thoughts on how it, sadly, was the end of the world for some

3   Remember the twenty-six

2   Include the other two

1   Wishes Everyone a Blessed, Peaceful, Healthy Holiday Season from my Family to YOU!

Nick Weidner, Matt Weidner, Shivali Patel, Alex Weidner, Elyse Weidner, Adrian Andrade, Me, Ronald Weidner

Nick Weidner, Matt Weidner, Shivali Patel, Alex Weidner, Lola, Elyse Weidner, Adrian Andrade, Me, Ronald Weidner

– Stay Well –

-See You Next Week Year –

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To Camp, Or Not To Camp? That is the question…

Posted on December 14, 2012 by Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner

What self-respecting adventurer (adventuress just sounds wrong) can call themselves as such if they have never been camping? Being an adventure seeker as a child, I had always wanted to be a boy scout for exactly that reason. They got to go out into the wild with pocket knives. They built fires rubbing sticks together. SONY DSCThey cooked, ate, and slept under the stars. Joining the girl scouts was just not an option for me. Besides, all my friends were boys.

It took a while, but Continue reading →

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STONES FROM THE RECTUM—A Tail of Adventure

Posted on December 5, 2012 by Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner

“No. We already have a dog. One is enough,” I said. Once, twice, a quadrillion times.

It wasn’t even the kids asking anymore. It was Ronald, my hubby dearest. I thought of suggesting he go get himself a fish if he needed a new pet, but then I knew I would be the one crying and humming “Amazing Grace” when it came time to flush it down the toilet upon its final journey to The-Great-Ocean-In-The-Sky. For at least an entire year, I managed to stay true to my convictions, maintaining that “Jazzie and I don’t need company.”

And Jazzie agreed.

And Jazzie agreed.

Yet, here I sit, almost three years later with Lucy lying across my feet, snoring like a two hundred pound truck driver with sleep apnea. Not a surprise, really. Continue reading →

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INNER SPACE—THE FINAL FRONTIER…

Posted on November 29, 2012 by Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner

…These are the voyages of a being named Donna. Her life-long mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out her authentic self, embark on new adventures and to push herself beyond her limitations, to boldly go where no man has gone before—

Much like the formidable Captain James Tiberius Kirk when he commanded that he be beamed from his warm, cozy starship to some harsh unknown environment, I have also decided to take a monumental step outside of my comfort zone today. Continue reading →

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THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES

Posted on November 21, 2012 by Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner

If I had to rate holidays in order of their appeal factor, Thanksgiving would be my number one. Why? My taste buds are the first to roar in unison, because of the food, duh… Horrified at such a base answer, my conscience reprimands the chorus, No! It’s about celebrating all the things in our lives that we are thankful for—family, friends, health, love—everything that make us happy. Actually, they are all right. And it always has a way of taking me back to the Thanksgivings of my childhood…

This happens to be a Christmas celebration in the living room with only a few family members ca. 1972

This happens to be a Christmas celebration in the living room with only a few family members ca. 1972

The only place the entire Lambo family could eat together in was a room in the basement, Continue reading →

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FOUR DAYS, FOUR NIGHTS—

Posted on November 15, 2012 by Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner

Alone—no food—no drink—no watch, phone, electronics of any kind—no reading, or writing—being silent—these are the general rules of a Vision Quest.

Day 1:  In silence, I was led to my spot in the forest—a small thicket at the foot of a huge oak tree—in the Jura region in France, of all places. The sunny clearing allotted to me was just about the size of my tent. This was to be my home for the next four days, four nights—How hard could it be? I thought.

Continue reading →

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What Do Promises, Hurricanes, and Soldiers Have in Common?

Posted on November 8, 2012 by Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner

Francis Scott Key's original manuscript copy o...As I lay in bed this morning, the Star Spangled Banner played in my head. Strange—I thought, but maybe being back in the United States and inundated with all that’s red, white, and blue, struck up the band in my brain. Who knows?

My next thought was about promises—logical I guess, for an election year. But then I thought about the promise I had made to myself to blog once a week and how I had already, after only five weeks, broken that promise. Hmmm…do you see a pattern?

 

I had chosen hump day, Wednesday, Continue reading →

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