For goodness’ sake.
For the sake of goodness.
Because goodness deserves your attention…
You really should visit the GOODNESS Blog Carnival on
Bridget Chumbley’s One Word at a Time.
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Before I go on, I feel like I should say,
“And now for something completely different…”
In Jerusalem last week, we visited Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust Memorial. For some reason, as I’ve tried [...]

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Sky a vibrant blue.
So bright that it makes your
Whole face squinch up.
Only hours before…
All gray. Wet. Cold.
And hours from now,
Gusts will scud feathery
Clouds across the blue.
Wind rocking oaks and pines.
Saplings and pillars of 100 years,
And some will fall.
But for now, a lull.
Aching beauty, still
And warm.
Time between storms
Is short. And even when
It’s not short, it’s always
Between.
Storms.
Yes, [...]

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I’m feeling rather poetic today. Why?
Maybe it’s the view outside my kitchen window:
Thin lavender clouds,
strewn like tattered
throw rugs along a pale horizon.
(Is “throw rug” ever a poetic phrase?)
Or it might be the song that’s stuck in my head:
Trousers loosed,
Abandoned to battle
gravity – beltless.
Imprudent-seeming, you
Speed their journey to earth.
(Not sure what the song is? Hopefully viewing this [...]

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Today’s post is in honor of Beck, who’s STILL writing horror stories based on children’s books/shows.
For those who don’t have kids the right age to know the show Caillou (KI-YOO) is, here’s a little taste of the horror :
Did you watch? HE’S a kid you’d want yours emulating, right? Well, my son LOVED it which [...]

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Charlie and kids out.
I sit on the couch, read, and
chat on the Twitter.
Time to go get girls,
No way – my keys are missing.
Where the heck are they?
Search the entire house,
Every surface in every room.
Charlie’s gonna kill me.
Where’d I leave them now?
Third purse search yields them hidden
In secret pocket.
On the road to gym.
What’s this? A frakking [...]

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The color fades from the sky, lightening to pale blue, which then grays as it gradually mixes with black. The first star appears overhead, and the tree frogs turn up the volume.
Now they seem to drown out the noise of big rigs on the freeway just over the hill. And here on the side of [...]

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I feel like this post isn’t exactly cohesive, but it represents all that’s swirling around in my heart and mind. So I hope you can bear with my musings…
In elementary Spanish class, we all learned Hola and Adios for Hello and Goodbye.
But it didn’t take me long to realize that only Spanish newbies say Adios. [...]

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Flashback to 2003. The children are 6, 4, and 1.
I’m trying to homeschool LC in kindergarten, and keep a preschooler and a toddler busy.
I am slowly going insane. Writing is just a hobby; a blog (or any other publishing platform), a pipe dream.
I won’t write with any consistency for another six years. But every [...]

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A sunbeam, more powerful
Than the clouds
That try to contain it,
Paints a line of light
Across the living room floor.
And upward in the beam
Tiny particles spin
through still indoor air
Like principal dancers
In a microscopic ballet.
I blink. Black letters fade
Into white background.
Pupils contracting, I peer
At a screen of liquid crystal,
Peppered with dancing dust.

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I’ve been struggling to write these last [...]

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UPDATE TO THE UPDATE: Robin’s back in business! Go visit her to see all the other great poetry!
UPDATED FRIDAY EVENING: Poor Robin’s site has been down all day due to a dead computer. So I’ve changed a couple permalinks in this post. And I guess we’ll just have to be patient until she [...]

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