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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 … Continue reading →

Posted in ADVENTURES, SHORT STORIES, TEACHINGS FROM THE FAR NORTH, WRITING CHALLENGES | Tagged adventure, author, blog, Donna Weidner, DPchallenge, iconic, Miwok, Miwok people, myths and legends, San Francisco | 13 Comments

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in ADVENTURES, TEACHINGS FROM THE FAR NORTH | Tagged adventure, Apache blessing, author, blog, Donna Weidner, Freshy Pressed, prayer, R.I.P., self-doubt | 5 Comments

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

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in ADVENTURES, HUMOR, TRAVEL/PHOTO Themes | Tagged adventure, Airline, Airline Amenities, author, blog, Donna Weidner, Fort Lauderdale, humor, pet peeve, Richard Branson, San Francisco, Virgin America | 11 Comments

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in ADVENTURES, TEACHINGS FROM THE FAR NORTH, WRITING CHALLENGES | Tagged adventure, author, blog, climate change, community, Donna Weidner, Earth Day 2013, environmental issues, love, Midway-a message from the gyre-by Chris Jordan, Mother Earth, short story | 58 Comments

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in ADVENTURES, TRAVEL/PHOTO Themes | Tagged adventure, author, blog, CHASING ICE, Donna Weidner, glaciers, Greenland, icebergs, ilulissat, Kalaallit Eskimo, Kangerlussuaq, TRAVEL Theme, wall | Leave a comment

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in SINGLE SOCK SUNDAY, TRAVEL/PHOTO Themes | Tagged adventure, author, blog, Donna Weidner, Martha Alderson, Old Mission at Santa Barbara, Single Sock Day, The Plot Whisperer, TRAVEL Theme, we are the same-we are different, Where's My Backpack, writer | 6 Comments

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? After half a century of sitting on their hands, many members of CADS, the Center for … Continue reading →

Posted in ADVENTURES, HUMOR, SHORT STORIES, SINGLE SOCK SUNDAY | Tagged adventure, author, Black hole, blog, Donna Weidner, Lakota, lost socks, socks, we are the same-we are different, writer | 21 Comments

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in ADVENTURES | Tagged adventure, Barbara Lalicki, Beverly Cleary, blog, Donna Weidner, Gary Paulsen, Harper Collins Children's Books, HarperCollins, Retirement, Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, writer | 2 Comments

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. As she climbed, bit by bit, up into the sky, Sun noticed the Moon, waiting patiently nigh. “Is something wrong, brother?” she … Continue reading →