Image credit: Photo by xamad on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons One summer night many years ago, I was standing on my parents' back porch talking to an old friend -- old love -- on the phone. The air was warm and moist in a way that wrapped around me like a blanket, and I [...]
Posts under ‘writing’
Seriously, Kids, This Is Why You Should Study Grammar
Image credit: Photo by Jez D on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons Many years ago, I had an argument with my ex-boyfriend about grammar. "You know, between you and I..." he said. "You and me," I corrected. He refused to believe me. So, we bandied about words like "preposition," "subject," and "object" before consulting Strunk [...]
Haiku Answers for Scribbling-Mum
Mum is curious, "Do you let your husband read your blog?" she asks me. My husband is weird. He loves my blog but hasn't actually read it. I do summarize. Sometimes I read posts to him. I can not not share. "Does HE blog/journal?" No, he finds blogs triggering. He has a journal. Last, "Do [...]
Where Am I?
Image credit: Photo by si1very on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons I was looking outside today and thinking of writing about my surroundings, but then realized (with a bit of a pang) that it's not something I write about here. I describe my internal life in great detail, but I take some pains not to [...]
Haiku of Haikus
I said to the kids,"I'm off to write some haikus.""What are haikus, Mom?" "They are poetry.""Well, what is poetry then?""That's a good question." "Hm. Poetry is:words arranged in a rhythm.Poems have a beat." "Like spoken musicpoems can go 'Bum da bum'and sometimes they rhyme." "A haiku has beats.It has five in the first line,then seven, [...]
Getting in Touch with God
As part of the process of working through my Third Step, I did a two exercises designed to help put me in touch with my Higher Power. In the first, I was supposed to meditate on people I'd admired and the spiritual gifts I'd received from them. But it was like trying to keep the [...]
Journaling
This post was originally published at The Second Road on October 4. Image credit: Photo by ryan loucks photography on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons My daughter, Janie, came home from kindergarten this week excitedly telling me about the journal she has started keeping at school. At five, she and her classmates can't write much, [...]
Eureka! I Think I’ve Got It!
Image credit: Photo byCayusa on FlickrLicensed under Creative Commons My brilliant friend Jay at Two Women Blogging suggested a workaround for my dilemma with linking to my work at the Second Road: I could post there and then wait some period of time before reposting the content here with a link. Ah ha! That satisfies [...]
The "It’s Taking Me Forever to Write Posts" Blues
Kids are back in school. I still feel I have no time. Now how can that be?
Building Something New
Image credit:Photo posted on UADDit(along with other pictures ofamazing Lego art!) I grew up believing that there was a formula for building a career. Jobs were like packaged construction sets: you picked the single set you liked best, followed the instructions, laying down one piece of education or experience at a time, until you had [...]
