by Alice Nine | A9 Journal, Indexed |
April 7: Happy National Poetry Month! I am celebrating Poetry Month by pairing quotes about poetry with images. Usually I share these without commentary. However, I felt this photograph and quote required commentary. I took this photo during our Ancestral Trip when we...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
SOL26-0407A Bite of a Grandma Slice Conversation with a three-year-old. Prologue.I am Me, the Grandma; BN is a three-year-old, my grandson. I’m preparing lunch; BN is pulling a chair up to the kitchen table. On the table is my husband’s MacBook Pro —...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
March 2026 Slice of Life, No. 28This is a high interest post for coffee lovers. Geisha coffee? Have you ever heard of Geisha coffee? No? Neither had I until my son gave me a small bag of coffee from Panama, a gift to him while he was there that he shared with me. As...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
March 2026 Slice of Life, No. 24 In a couple days, in my heart, quietly, I will celebrate my dad’s birthday. He has now been gone from us longer than he was with us. The last day I was with him was my wedding day, the day he gave me to another man to have and to...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
March 2026 Slice of Life, No. 23Written from a freewrite in my 2015 Journal The sun rose around 7 AM. When I looked out my dining room windows, I could see the shape of the magnolia buds, shadows against the dimly lit sky, a sign that spring is coming soon. The sun...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
March 2026 Slice of Life, No. 22 I inherited my mom’s cookbooks. In the stack is a spiral bound cookbook she had purchased from one of my children’s school fund raisers: Aunt Bee’s Mayberry Cookbook. Aunt Bee’s Mayberry Cookbook I like to read cookbooks,...
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