March 2026 Slice of Life, No. 31

I.
A HEARTFELT THANK YOU!

On this our last day of the March 2026 Slice of Life Challenge,
I thank those who have hosted this challenge on Two Writing Teachers;

I thank all the Slicers who shared their story slices for me to read,
to learn and laugh and feel a tug on my heart; and

I thank all Slicers who took time to read and share comments on my slices;
I have learned much from all of you.

II.
YEAH, I RAN THE COURSE AND FINISHED!

I’m glad to announce that I wrote and posted every day.
Did you also? Share about it in the Comments so we can celebrate with you.

III.
SLICING MY SLICES: A UNIQUE SUMMARY

Finally, on this our last day, I’ve gathered the titles of my 31 slices and created a narrative verse. Each title is capitalized and in bold. I did not capitalize words that were added, words that are not part of original titles. I used a bit of punctuation, just for clarity. Each title carries a link to the post I wrote.
Enjoy my tale.

Slicing through Mar ’26

In the Spring,
when I Was a Child, we
visited The Worm Farm and
walked through Ghost Gardens
with Stanley and carried
A Brown Paper Bag.

An Atmospheric River roared
with the Sound of Terror,
but still we went to
Leigh Anne’s Party
where we ate Travel Bite #1 of
Hershey’s Best Brownies,
munched Apples,
and drank A Black Tiger
and Geisha Coffee while
Celebrating the Irish
who Write a Limerick.

We Are Writing today
By the Sea.
It’s a Book
with Book Spine Poems
of Simple Things
and an Antithesis of Holy Week
beginning with Palm Sunday.

Dad spoke
with Love
with Exuberance,
“Two Dates for Breakfast;
that’s A Great Price!
Blessed Indeed are we!”

IV.
WRITING ABOUT MY WRITING

Backstory for today’s narrative verse.
Some of you old timer slicers may remember when I wrapped up SOL March 2019 with “Madness in March,” a poem created using titles of my 31 March slices. And before that, in March 2017, I wrote “The Gossip of SOL17,” a poem created out of 112 blog names that year’s slicers. That was a mammoth undertaking. But I had lots of laughs as the narrative unfolded. I still enjoy reading it and remembering that year of slicing. So over the weekend, I decide to write a narrative verse using my slice titles for this year’s March SOL challenge.

My writing rules are simple.
1. All 31 titles must be used.
2. Nothing in any title can be changed.
3. Use as few words as possible to link titles together meaningfully.
4. The end result can be nonsense but must make grammatical sense.

Here’s how I drafted my narrative verse.
I opened my blog to my “All Posts” index. There I found a listing of my Slices by title. I created a blank table with 33 lines, 3 extra so I could move lines around as needed. And I typed each title into a field on the table.

I then created another table in a new file. I went back to my original listing of titles and read them several times. I had to intentionally disregard the content of the original slice so the title could take on new meaning.

I began putting them together randomly, copying and pasting into the second table, looking for titles that could go together. As I did, I began to see patterns, possible groups: time at the sea, a party, Dad and breakfast, and writing. With that, the poem began to write itself.

From the beginning, I knew my first two lines would be “In the Spring / when I Was a Child.” I also saw “We Are Writing” / “By the Sea” going together. And I knew I would connect “Dad,” “Love,” and “Exuberance.” I also saw how food and beverages could go with “Leigh Anne’s Party.” That formed the events of my narrative.

Using the copy and paste tool, I sorted and resorted the titles from my first document to my second document, using one title per line. I added function words –pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions– to make the titles flow with logical connections that make sense grammatically and tell a story, even if it is a nonsense story. On a few lines I added verbs or nouns, but not many.

Here is a screenshot of my work, the original list on the left and on the right, the sorted list from which I wrote the narrative verse.

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