Category Archives: Ripped from the headlines

What We Fight For and Must Keep Fighting For

…It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us… Continue reading

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NaPoWriMo 2025 Day 12

I got up and found it had snowed. Seriously snowed. Snowplow had come through more than once kinda snowed and it was still snowing. Yup Third winter. The squirt had slept with me but everyone was up and roaming around … Continue reading

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NaPoWriMo 2025 Day 8

It is tiring • and I wonder if this is • how it felt for Eve • as the door closed Continue reading

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NaPoWriMo 2025 Day 7 (and 5-6)

the paper is waiting • the paint blobs absorb water • I absorb the scene Continue reading

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NaPoWriMo 2025 Day 1

don’t know the future • only know that I have to • do the right thing Continue reading

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