TODAY'S LIMERICK
I’ve heard there’s a season called “Spring” Melts the snow, brings the sun on the wing. Here’s hoping it’s true, Because I’m feeling blue Thanks to dark days and cold everything. Sign in to see full entry.
Wednesday, March 6, 2019
Tuesday, March 5, 2019
DOC SAYS HE DIDN'T HAVE TO BUY A DRINK ALL NIGHT...
Because of a joke I'd told him in the delivery room. It was the six-weeks checkup after my 6th and last blessed event. The checkup went great, and he informed me he’d also removed my appendix while he performed the tubal ligation following the delivery of my baby boy. A couple months earlier,... Sign in to see full entry.
Monday, March 4, 2019
PROMISE KEPT
There’s a lot of political blather around Women’s Issues 2019. Seems like equal opportunity and independence has been under fire for women all my life. (In fact, it has been.) Early on in the 20th Century, women like Margaret Sanger were jailed for protesting against the status quo, against the... Sign in to see full entry.
Sunday, March 3, 2019
SQUIRREL' S YEAR
After leaves fall, a silver maple becomes a pen and ink etching against the winter sky, a reminder of endlessly alternating days, nights, seasons. In some winter scenes the etching is edited by snow, the lines softened somewhat. Or if seen from a moderate distance, fog erases all but a soft shadow... Sign in to see full entry.
Saturday, March 2, 2019
A SHORT STORY FROM 2013 BY PLH
Tiger Heart All her life she’d been burning bright, her tiger heart caged by convention and expectation. And of course by the very laws of the land. Nan was brought up knowing a lady does thus and so. She never forgets her role, her place. A man and his wife are one; that one is he. He controls her... Sign in to see full entry.
Friday, March 1, 2019
CREATIVE WRITING 101, ETC.
Don't know if it's a residual darktide brought on by too much TV news, the "Ain't it awful?" slant that comes from following the hearings on ESPN, the weather itself, or just being too much trapped inside by an eighth of an inch of black ice - but all the stuff that comes to mind for posting here is... Sign in to see full entry.
Thursday, February 28, 2019
TUMBLIN' CLOWNS
If I were the weather goddess, I'd turn the temp on middle America up to about 55 degrees, bump the clouds off to the east a thousand miles, and invite all God's children to play outdoors. I thought how much nicer it would be if there were circus clowns tumbling and doing pratfalls in the street,... Sign in to see full entry.
Wednesday, February 27, 2019
I’LL HUFF AND I’LL PUFF….
For some reason I got to thinking about the cost of a pack of cigarettes. I do not smoke, don’t want to be around anyone who’s smoking – but I didn’t mind it when I was a kid and in my 20s – in fact tried a smoke or two before deciding not just no, but hell, no. Smokers I knew used to call them... Sign in to see full entry.
Tuesday, February 26, 2019
WHY PINK PUSSY HATS
I was in 6th or 7th grade when little girls in pigtails turned from hopscotch and jumping rope to gossip as the sport of choice. We whispered amongst ourselves about any girl not just then in our midst – was she developing? Had the boys noticed her budding mounds? Did she really run as fast as she... Sign in to see full entry.
Monday, February 25, 2019
THE WIFE
There’s a movie out now titled “The Wife” starring Glenn Close in the title role. But this little article is not about that wife. It’s about another, one who shows up at The Center on Tuesday mornings to select some bread from the day-old unsold items donated by Panera’s bakery/restaurant. This... Sign in to see full entry.