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It’s My Name

Slice of Life. Remember that a person’s name is to that person the sweetest and most important sound in any language. — Dale Carnegie I was very young when I learned that my last name was too hard. Before I entered first grade, my mama had taught me how to spell it,...

Celebrating Week #13

Celebrate this Week . Celebrating Completion of a Challenge This week, the 10th Slice of Life Story Challenge over at Two Writing Teachers wrapped up. For one incredible month, I blogged day after day with several hundred other writers. On Friday, over 100 of us...

Stop Making Sense!

Poetry Friday. Slice of Life March Challenge. No.31. During the March 2017 Slice of Life Challenge I have written nonsense verse on a couple occasions. I didn’t set out to write nonsense verse any one of the times. Perhaps if I had done so intentionally, I would have...
The Gossip of SOL17

The Gossip of SOL17

Slice of Life March Challenge. No. 30. On my post yesterday Kevin (aka dogtrax) threw out a challenge in the his comment, and I took him up on it . . . in a way.  This morning I gathered 112 blog names from Slicers who had posted for the 29th day on Two Writing...
Slicing Titles Make a Poem

Slicing Titles Make a Poem

Slice of Life March Challenge. No. 29. I stopped by Kim K’s Blog post  today and enjoyed her poem created from the titles of her March slices. Why not? I thought. And so, I crafted the titles of 28 slices into a poem. It was fun, and I  must say I was doubtful...

Crafting “Without Words”

Slice of Life March Challenge. No. 28. Backstory of yesterday and today’s posts. Last year, during #SOL16, I revised a draft about a childhood memory, a first grade memory, “The Day My Teacher Died.” The next day I wrote about how I revised that...
Without Words

Without Words

Slice of Life March Challenge. No. 27.  x This is my mother-in-law’s story. Prologue. Over the course of several years, she suffered a series of strokes and finally one left her without the power of speech. While we were home for a visit, Carl and I took her for...
Great Love

Great Love

Slice of Life March Challenge. No. 26. Sunday. I saw a quote somewhere and it made me stop and think: Life in abundance comes through great love. Great love. Is love great because of size? Or because of its significance? Is it great because of its object? I think that...

Celebrating Week #12

Celebrate this Week : March 25, 2017. Slice of Life March Challenge. No. 25. Today, I celebrate technology in communications that Spans miles, putting two people who are in two different places into the same space Blends time zones, making now the time, anytime for...
Embrace

Embrace

Slice of Life March Challenge. No. 24. Poetry Friday : March 24, 2017. Five Minute Friday : March 24, 2017. I read Lynne’s Song of Sunshine inspired by Langston Hughes’ April Rain Song, and I was inspired to try to follow the model to write a poem...