Tag Archives: adventure

SEVEN CHICKS ON A SUNDAY AFTERNOON

Posted on December 5, 2014 by Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner

We’re seven savvy chicks, soon to be eight. We write on one Sunday each month Over pie, peanuts, even haggis, To prompts while we sip tea and munch. Whether foul of mood or weather, we meet, Pens firing reflections onto the sheet, Heart-wrenching, gut-churning, ofttimes offbeat. … Continue reading →

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THANKS FOR THE MEMORY

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

Once upon a Thanksgiving Day, the only room large enough to host the Lambo family was in my grand-parents basement that had been fitted with a second kitchen just for such occasions. The oblong, wood-panelled room sported a bar at the far end fashioned from the same panelling … Continue reading →

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If

Posted on November 20, 2014 by Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner

If no one sees my tears, Does it mean I do not cry?

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HERE A MO, THERE A MO, EVERYWHERE A MO-MO

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

I know what you’re thinking – “It’s mooooo. Everywhere a moo-moo.” Nope. This has nothing to do with Old McDonald Had A Farm. It’s about challenges, travels, and imagination.

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IT’S NOT YOUR MAMMA’S HALLOWEEN RECIPE

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

‘Twas All Hallows Eve, the one-hundredth in a row, When Headwitch prepared her special cookie dough. Kids craved the old crone’s gooey, ghoulish treats— Goodies that’d send them howling down streets. ‘Cause what would the spookiest day of the year … Continue reading →

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SONG OF MY SELF ~ An Introspection

Posted on October 22, 2014 by Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner

While filing snippets of writing exercises, prompts, and ideas jotted on napkins in dark restaurants, I came across a poem I wrote using the first line in Walt Whitman’s 1892 poem “Song of Myself” as a starting point… “I celebrate … Continue reading →

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GONE FISHING

Posted on October 2, 2014 by Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner

With my motivation batteries out of juice and my head entrenched in a word cloud crammed full of ideas, yet unable to reel in the one which will inspire this post, I’ve decided to go fishing. Not your typical jump in your boat, push off, … Continue reading →

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BEING THE CHANGE

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

Steady now – okay, I’ve got it. Sometimes one soap box isn’t enough. Sometimes, when there’s so much going on, you’ve got to step it up a notch and kill two birds with one stone no, uh, maybeeee, bake two cakes in one … Continue reading →

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THE STATE OF OUR UNION, A DRESS

Posted on September 12, 2014 by Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner

Who said time travel is impossible? James T. Kirk managed to do it in five episodes of STAR TREK. Marty McFly took us BACK TO THE FUTURE more than once. H. G. Well’s did it in print and Metro Goldwyn … Continue reading →

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SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW…

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

That’s where you’d have found us on a recent midsummer’s Sunday. Although, since the pre-requisite tornado was off wreaking havoc somewhere else in the world, my sister, niece, a friend and I had to find another magical form of transportation to … Continue reading →

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