Tag Archives: Donna Weidner

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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

Illumination

Posted on January 12, 2013 by Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner

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

Posted in ADVENTURES, TRAVEL/PHOTO Themes | Tagged adventure, Donna Weidner, Illumination, postaday, San Francisco, the daily post, weekly photo challenge, writer | 2 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 →

Posted in ADVENTURES, POEMS, SHORT STORIES | Tagged adventure, blog, daytime moon, Donna Weidner, full moon, good night moon, poem, poetry, thirteenth moon, writer | 16 Comments

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in ADVENTURES | Tagged adventure, Africa, blog, Camping, Donna Weidner, Greenland, Ngorongoro Crater, Safari, St. John V.I., Tanzania, writer | 5 Comments

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in ADVENTURES, HUMOR, LUCY and JAZZIE | Tagged adventure, blog, California, diamonds, dog, Donna Weidner, gemstones, Germany, Labrador Retriever, Lucy, pets, rocks, San Francisco, writer | 19 Comments

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in ADVENTURES | Tagged adventure, Alpenhorn, blog, change, Donna Weidner, fonts, hedgehog socks, James T. Kirk, James Tiberius Kirk, Klingon, Star Trek, Switzerland, Where no man has gone before, writer | 9 Comments

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, … Continue reading →

Posted in ADVENTURES, CHILDHOOD, HOLIDAYS | Tagged blog, Cooking, Donna Weidner, family, Home, Macy's Day Parade, March of the Wooden Soldiers, memories, Thanksgiving, writer | 8 Comments

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 … Continue reading →