Burdensome Labor
Poetry Friday : February 3, 2017. But the Egyptians mistreated and oppressed us, assigning us a burdensome labor. --Deuteronomy 26:6 There was a magic number-- Seventy bolls make a pound, Seven thousand make a hundred. A hundred pounds of feathers, A hundred pounds of...
Indexed : Sentences
Tuesday Slice of Life : January 31, 2017. It's the end of January! I always approach the end of January with a bit of reluctance. Really with a whole lot of reluctance. It means 4th quarter reports and end of the year reports. It means setting up my business files for...
Sentence Maps No.170130
A simple declarative sentence is the building block of all composition. Simple Sentence Maps, Sample Set 1. Monday, January 30, 2017. A marmalade cat sat on a mat. 1. Find preposition and circle it; then loop around its object to form a pin (safety pin). Use blue, our...
Vertigo in Time
Celebrate this Week : January 28, 2017 This week I celebrate 24 hours in each day, 7 days in each week, 4 plus weeks in each month, 12 months in each year . . . the rising and setting of the sun, the lengthening and shortening of shadows, the changing of seasons. It...
It Snowed
Last night it snowed. A hushed white, a soft, muffling blanket tucked me in. Nothing to do, and so I did nothing. © Alice Nine Carol at Beyond Literacy Link is hosting #PoetryFriday this week. Come by and join in! And thank you Carol!
Noah’s Ark
Tuesday Slice of Life : January 24, 2017. The biblical story of Noah's ark is an all time preschool favorite. Kids like the animals. They like the big boat. And they really like the rainbow. It is also a favorite of mine because it is the story of a just man of faith...
Boots and Shoes
Celebrate this Week : January 21, 2017 This week I am celebrating boots and shoes! I found comfort! I found style! And they fit! I found them in the airport of all places. Yep! At ccMcKenzie Shoes and Apparel in Concourse C at the Portland International Airport. I...
On the Other Side of TSA
Tuesday Slice of Life : January 17, 2017. My first stop. Her laugh had bubbles in it. Our paths intersected as I walked down Concourse C. In other words, we bumped into each other. I was looking to my left; I guess she was looking the other way. As we bumped, offered...
Celebrating Full Circle
Celebrate This Week : January 14, 2017. This week I celebrate the past and the present in my "professional development life" Backstory. For more than twenty years, I have provided professional development to schools across the country. The bulk of this PD focuses on...
Day’s End
Poetry Friday : January 13, 2017. . When I thumb the pages of my journals and look through my photos, I find an interesting thread -- sunsets and sunrises. And in addition to writing about sunrises and sunsets and taking photos of them, I find myself recording them in...
Just one . . .
Three Things Thursday : January 12, 2017. One: I am grateful for opportunities to plant seeds in the lives of others and to watch them bloom! Two: I am thankful for the smiles of strangers that have lifted my spirits on my travels this week. Three: I celebrated my...
“Pig flu . . .”
Tuesday Slice of Life : January 10, 2017 A game of hangman using the Bible story words is a favorite of the kids in my Sunday school class. If you've ever played hangman, you know that all the letters guessed are recorded -- those that are in the word or phrase in...
Mick
Celebrate This Week : January 6, 2017. Mick, my little brother, has been in my heart much this week. Just five years ago, on January 4, 2012, after a very long battle with Parkinson's Disease, Mick said goodby to me. The next day, I posted Mick's high school senior...
Snow
Poetry Friday : January 6, 2017 Grandkids are praying for snow. Weather forecasters are predicting snow. January is the month for snow. And I'm writing about snow. Here's my haiku for snow. snowflakes softly drifting down one by one by one grandkids sledding on our...
Endings to Beginnings
Three Things Thursday : January 5, 2017. On this Thursday in the first week of the first month of a new year I REJOICE in the satisfaction of endings closure conclusions and grand finales I REJOICE in the opportunities for continuation something that starts where...
December 2016
Tuesday Slice of Life : January 3, 2017. How did December slip by so fast? Seems only a couple days ago my daughter and I were unpacking boxes of Christmas decorations. It's one of our traditions: together we remember Christmases past as we decorate my tree, retelling...
One Little Word 2017
Celebrate This Week : December 30, 2016. For days I've been pondering words -- nouns, verbs, adjectives, and even adverbs, searching to know the one little word I should choose for 2017. The word rejoice came to mind, but I pushed it aside and thought of strength...
Winter Solstice
Poetry Friday : December 23, 2016 The land tilts away. Sun skims the horizon For a quarter day, shortest day Vanishing into the earliest sunset. Plunged into darkness-- No sunrise, no sunset-- North Pole is beyond Sun’s reach. At its lowest point, Sun stands still,...
Story of the Season
Tuesday Slice of Life : December 20, 2016. We consider Christmas as the encounter, the great encounter, the historical encounter, the decisive encounter, between God and mankind. He who has faith knows this truly; let him rejoice. Pope Paul VI Each year, I enjoy so...
Haiku – Haiga – Tanka
Poetry Friday : December 12, 2016. It was just past 5 AM; sunrise was more than two hours away, and the temperature hovered just above freezing. Like a shroud, fog wrapped itself around everything. While family slumbered, I stepped onto my back porch to experience a...
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