About You! I recently took my father-in-law to his doctor for a check-up. Shortly after Dad was escorted back to the examining rooms, two men also in the waiting room began a political argument that eventually became so intense they were standing nose-to-nose screaming at each other. The argument was still raging after my father-in-law was done with…
Wild Word Friday! My niece Amy and I had a little conversation a few weeks ago about the aggravation of trying to fit a word into a poem when that word has nothing that rhymes with it. Of course, the word ORANGE was the first one Amy mentioned. It didn’t take me long after our conversation to decide…
About You! This week autumn officially begins. I don’t want to cause controversy, but here where I live, it actually starts in August. That’s when we usually have our first night frost (not this year!) and also when you see the first bit of color in a tree, and the flowers start to look a…
Wild Word Friday! In spring 2010 I gathered my courage and bought a LAVENDER plant for my garden. The reason that the purchase was brave (Or maybe foolish – have you noticed that sometimes bravery and foolhardiness are mistaken for one another?) was because I live in a Zone 3 to 4 area for plants and LAVENDER is a…
About You! A couple of years ago, my husband came home from a conference and asked me an usual question. What is my favorite color of roses? One of the inspirational speakers asked the guys there about their wives’ or moms’ or girlfriends’ preferences in this regard. The speaker was trying to illustrate that although we…
Wild Word Friday! Once I was interviewed for inclusion in a how-to book about writing. A few days later, I reread the interview and came across a sentence that I was afraid I had read elsewhere. I went through all my books on writing (and that’s quite a stash) but couldn’t find it. Finally I contacted the author of the how-to book…
About You! My brother and his daughter recently visited us from Oregon. We had a great time together, and because they flew here (in a plane, I mean), sometimes they borrowed our car. The next time I would use the car, I’d notice that the radio was tuned to stations that played loud, energetic music. I usually…
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