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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...
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...
Writing through the Block

Writing through the Block

Slice of Life March Challenge. No. 21. I’m searching for something to write, but it eludes me. So, here I am, penning a steam of consciousness, writing through the block. Finally it’s spring. I’m glad that winter is over. I’m glad that the sun is tracking...
Portoviejo

Portoviejo

Slice of Life March Challenge. No. 9. For about 30 minutes, we drove through the streets of the former downtown of Portoviejo. It should have been the busiest part of the day. However, the streets were nearly vacant, like a ghost town, block after block after block. A...
Transformed Discovery

Transformed Discovery

Poetry Friday : February 24, 2017. Transformed Discovery The pen of a poet is chanting a tale of bright stars glowing above the lost land complete with belching geysers, gurgling mud pots and simmering pools— transformed discovery on a magical summer night © 2017...