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Poetry is… #7

Poetry is… #7

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...
Whose Computer?

Whose Computer?

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 —...
Geisha Coffee

Geisha Coffee

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...
Dad

Dad

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...
Blessed Indeed!

Blessed Indeed!

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...
A Brown Paper Bag

A Brown Paper Bag

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,...