NaPoWriMo is Coming! NaPoWriMo is Coming!

Posted on March 28, 2023 by Mary Beth Frezon

Hey folks – April is upon us so here comes National Poetry Writing Month. Yup – that yearly challenge of writing 30 poems in 30 days. You know you want to. You can write them all on your own and tell no one. There are lots of places that you can find daily prompts. One of them is the founder of the feast, NaPoWriMo where you can also find other poets, reporting in with their responses, as well as a list of their websites and a jolly month-long party!

If you really want to get into the right festive mood, you can take up the challenge of spreading googly-eyes everywhere you can! Use up all your googly eyes, especially the self-stick ones!

And then obligatory cat photos. Or maybe you want to consider a month of cat sonnets or haiku. I find it useful to go in with some ideas and maybe a plan as to form.

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Take Home Quote of the Day

Posted on March 26, 2023 by Mary Beth Frezon

“To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place…I’ve found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.”
? Elliott Erwitt

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Dw i eisiau siarad Cymraeg

Posted on March 22, 2023 by Mary Beth Frezon

And since I’ve run out of lessons on duolingo and am doing revision (aka review) I am starting to do Say Something In Welsh Lessons in the car.

In other life goal news – washed my car today.

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Also found: Bill the Cat

Posted on March 19, 2023 by Mary Beth Frezon

This is the photo used for the “Lost Cat” poster in November 1990 when Bill and Maggie made a break for it. Maggie sat on the front porch waiting but Bill was eventually found in the next door neighbor’s barn a day or two later. Nervous times for all. The poster notes that he was about seventeen pounds at the time and get a load of those magnificent toesies! He really was a “best cat”. As a bonus, here’s another version of Bill. That’s right, it’s a cat scan!

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Also found, didn’t know it was lost…

Posted on March 17, 2023 by Mary Beth Frezon

Mom found this on the way to getting her St Patrick’s Day door decoration out. She figures it was something done for my home ec class which puts it into the – uh – old category. The cardboard used for this booklet, held together with two blue bread twist ties, is not quite legal size and in fact was what came from the laundry, supporting my father’s freshly cleaned, starched and ironed white work shirts. It was white on one side and grey on the other. The cover looks done with a blue ballpoint pen.

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