Category Archives: life around us

Sunday – Paint, Words and Dad

I got up and out this morning. Forgot about people heading out to brunch for Dad. Bad news: had to wait quite awhile for food (ordered to go because the place was 100% packed). Good news: by the time my … Continue reading

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Day 28, NaPoWriMo

I’m off topic from my own prompts today… So alike, mother and daughter, that as the mother scolds her for sins of inattention and fidgeting and whining and perhaps a tantrumI I can easily imagine the little girl, using the … Continue reading

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In other news…

It’s not often I get to experience something for the first time and something that no one I know has reported… but this week… yup, that’s me! I was patting myself on the back recently for remembering to restock the … Continue reading

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Day Fourteen, NaPoWriMo

Last night a few days after the last seen flurry, a scent of, daring, spring. Just past the last hill home where the shoulder is a stream now dopplerized frogs in a night of crossing roads of crossing seasons no … Continue reading

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Day Thirteen, NaPoWriMo

I don’t remember if the accompanying gold had a specific name but that green darkened many a kitchen cabinet and appliance in its day… Long ago, in a childhood far away in upstate New York kitchens used to be avocado, … Continue reading

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