Tag Archives: Donna Lambo-Weidner

FYI – 2021 BAY AREA BOOK FEST

Posted on April 30, 2021 by Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner

If you’ve got a middle-grader or teen at home (or if you’re a teacher, librarian, or mentor), this year’s virtual BAY AREA BOOK FESTIVAL has 8 bold FREE events that’ll rock their world and empower them. The adult program rocks … Continue reading →

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A COSMIC DELICACY OF GALACTIC PROPORTION

Posted on March 24, 2021 by Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner

In a chocolate galaxy, far, far away, the Flavonol3-O-beta-glucoside O-malonyltransferase gather in a non-disclosed location deep within the dark nether regions of the cocoa nebulae. Their mission: to effect the fabrication of a product so bold, so intense, so indescribably … Continue reading →

Posted in ADVENTURES, HUMOR, PONDERINGS, VIEW FROM MY SOAP BOX | Tagged adventure, art of chocolate, Big Bang Theory, Cosmos, D. G. Lambo, D. G. Lambo-Weidner, Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner, Donna Lambo-Weidner, galaxies, Old Housee Bakery Benicia CA, space-time continuum, specialty chocolate, universe | 8 Comments

CONFESSION OF A LATE IN LIFE WRITER

Posted on February 24, 2021 by Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner

Have you ever felt like a unicorn? The odd-one-out? The rarity in the herd? In the children’s book writer’s world, I have. Unlike many of my contemporaries, I didn’t spend lazy summer days, dark, stormy nights, and every other waking … Continue reading →

Posted in ADVENTURES, CHILDHOOD, Essay, PONDERINGS, WRITING CHALLENGES | Tagged adventure, Cinderella, Clifford the Big Red Dog, D. G. Lambo, D. G. Lambo-Weidner, Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner, Donna Lambo-Weidner, Grimm's Fairy Tales, Gulliver's Travels, Kon-Tiki, Scholastic Book Club, The Seven Voyages of Sinbad, The Thousand and One Nights, The Three Musketeers, Treasure Island, unicorns | 11 Comments

WHAT’S GOT MY GOAT TODAY? – The Pet Peeve That Got Away

Posted on January 28, 2021 by Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner

We all have strong opinions on one thing or another – the issues that get your goat. There are plenty to go around, right? I don’t think I need to list any. You know yours. I know mine. We probably … Continue reading →

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‘Tis Time For An Other ‘Twas

Posted on December 23, 2020 by Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner

‘Twas the day before Christmaswhen I realized this poem ’twas ready for the trash bin(after stifling a whopping groan).But then I asked myself, “What’s Christmas, without a fun ’twas?”So I grappled with this rhymer thinking, I’ll just add a disclaimer clause. Okay, there … Continue reading →

Posted in ADVENTURES, FAMILY, HOLIDAYS, HUMOR, POEMS, VIEW FROM MY SOAP BOX | Tagged 'twas poem, adventure, Christmas poem, Covid Christmas, D.G.Lambo, Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner, Donna Lambo-Weidner, Happy Holidays 2020, mulled wine | 7 Comments

‘TIS ALL HALLOWS WEEK…

Posted on October 29, 2020 by Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner

…and there is still much to do, like weaving webs, stringing skulls, and refining shrieks of, BOO! BOO! BOO! True… the pumpkin has been carved, skeletons are out of the closet,

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SOMEONE PINCH ME – I Think I’ve Woken Up On Mars

Posted on September 9, 2020 by Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner

From my bed,waning moon glides across a velvet sky.A planet shimmers nearby,far above the earthandmy head. The Blue Marble rotates. Woke up 7:00 a.m.to pumpkin spice darknessodorlessit took only one dream and half a nightmareto travel theforty-three point seven five six million … Continue reading →

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CHOOSE A BOOK-TURN TO CHAPTER EIGHT-BEGIN WITH LINE EIGHT

Posted on August 14, 2020 by Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner

She just couldn’t figure out what that something was. Had it risen from the cooling embers when she turned and reached for her fleece? Besides the chill that launched goosebumps up her back, spread them across her neck, and down … Continue reading →

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WHAT THE ICEBERG SAID

Posted on July 31, 2020 by Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner

Bold. Blue. Megalithic. To think I might have begun as a whispered word on an ancient’s breath,a droplet in the spray of a neolithic sneeze, the spatter in a sputtered warning, “Run!”a single snowflake spit from a cloud, delivered on … Continue reading →

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TWO QUIRKS, A CONSIDERATION, AND A QUANDARY – a.k.a. Peculiar Pandemic Ponderings

Posted on June 25, 2020 by Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner

THE QUIRKS: My husband surprised me with blueberry pancakes for breakfast today, and for the first time ever, I noticed that I eat my pancakes in measured quadrants reminiscent of PHI, the law of divine proportion. Later, I nibbled on … Continue reading →