Blogs about: Writing Writing Group Meet Up Daybook

Little Book from Nani (This One from Portland Oregon)7 comments

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Pileated Woodpeckers May Inform Our Policies in the Middle East: Escape Hatches; Exit Strategies; Barbed Parts; Or Perhaps It Isn't So Simple. (Another 420 Character Piece in 9 Lines)5 comments

Words We Women Write wrote 1 week ago: Exit strategies. Needed for positive conclusions. Be like the Pileated Woodpecker: 16 holes provide … more →

Tags: bird watching, Philosophies of Life, coping with adversity, Science, Nature, Blogging, WorDs, 9/11, Poetry

Breval, My Cello, Toni, Great Food, Good Friends: An Unlaced and Out There Event in 420 Characters and 9 Lines12 comments

Words We Women Write wrote 2 weeks ago: “Endearing” is what Jack replies when I asks him how he thinks my cello solo went. I lau … more →

Tags: bird watching, cello lessons, random thoughts, Philosophies of Life, Blogging, WorDs, Poetry, Music, Current Events

STEPPIN' OUT FOR A CUPPA11 comments

Words We Women Write wrote 3 weeks ago: You can find my WWWW writing group most Thursday mornings elbow-to- elbow at the round table in the … more →

Tags: Joy, Ted Kooser, writing, panera, postaday, postaweek 2013, Simon Armitage

A Last Poem for Poetry Month--this one inspired by the charcoal mound I came upon in the Housatonic State Forest.8 comments

Words We Women Write wrote 3 weeks ago: AND ALL THAT’S LEFT A collier cleared the land, dug a level platform, thirty feet across. Stacked lo … more →

DAILY PROMPT: UNLEASH YOUR EMILY DICKINSON4 comments

Words We Women Write wrote 3 weeks ago: MICHELLE AT WORDPRESS PUT OUT THE CALL ~ National Poetry Writing Month is nearly at at end. To celeb … more →

Tags: Poetry, DpChallenge, daily prompt, writing, sonnet, National Poetry Month, postaday, postaweek 2013, National Poetry Writing Month

DAILY PROMPT: UNLEASH YOUR EMILY DICKINSON4 comments

Words We Women Write wrote 3 weeks ago: MICHELLE AT WORDPRESS PUT OUT THE CALL ~ National Poetry Writing Month is nearly at at end. To celeb … more →

Tags: Poetry, DpChallenge, daily prompt, writing, sonnet, National Poetry Month, postaday, postaweek 2013, National Poetry Writing Month

One of My Favorite George Jones Songs. "The greatest voice to ever grace country music will never die. Jones has a place in every heart that ever loved any kind of music." (Garth Brooks)3 comments

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FROM PUB TO PULITZER: WHAT DO YOU GIVE THE BARTENDER WHO HAS EVERYTHING?3 comments

Words We Women Write wrote 3 weeks ago: …….. World Book Night was a jolly lark. ……………… … more →

Tags: Books, World Book Night, postaday, memoir, postaweek 2013, Tender Bar by J. R. Moehringer

Frozen doesn't mean dead; we can still spring back. How to thaw out from the freezing effect of serial tragedies. 2 comments

Words We Women Write wrote 1 month ago: How to thaw spirits frozen by tragedy? Rev. Sharpton does it by finding heroes; I do a version of da … more →

Tags: memoir, Philosophies of Life, coping with adversity, Science, Nature, Blogging, WorDs, 9/11, Poetry

WEEKLY WRITING CHALLENGE: PERSON, PLACE, THING3 comments

Words We Women Write wrote 1 month ago:   Krista’s challenge for WP Bloggers ~ watch closely, observe, and “collect people, plac … more →

Tags: Travel, Restaurants, DpChallenge, weekly writing challenge, daily prompt, New Hampshire, Littleton Diner, postaweek 2013, 1930 parlor car

Another Story from the Raymond Family Series. This is the version I wrote in front of 4th grade writing workshop students when we were studying the craft of personal narrative and memoir. Like a lot of memories it has a nugget of truth to it. Read it, then check the first comment for further explication. Kisses to you all. 8 comments

Words We Women Write wrote 1 month ago:   Kissing. Mama stirs the oatmeal on the stove. We kids sit around the breakfast table and wait. The … more →

Tags: memoir, Blogging, WorDs, Teaching and Learning, Journaling, Joy, postaday, Raymond Family Stories, Family

DAILY PROMPT: THE SATISFACTION OF A LIST2 comments

Words We Women Write wrote 1 month ago:               Who doesn’t love a list? says Michelle W.  Her chal … more →

Tags: daily prompt, postaday, writing, postaweek 2013, Inspiration

Songs for the Mamas Be They Brooding or No: Another (yes!! I write these to please myself I dare say) 420 Character Poem in 9 Lines. 5 comments

Words We Women Write wrote 1 month ago: House Finch hubbies perch nearby and serenade their brooding wives. At Luke and Claire’s we he … more →

Tags: bird watching, random thoughts, memoir, Philosophies of Life, coping with adversity, Photography, Science, Nature, Blogging

Stories Remind Us of the Ties that Bind: Another One from the Raymond Family.15 comments

Words We Women Write wrote 1 month ago: At Radcliffe Miriam eats lunch and studies at the Mt. Vernon Street Tea Room. She choses the leaden- … more →

Tags: memoir, Philosophies of Life, coping with adversity, Photography, Blogging, WorDs, Teaching and Learning, Journaling, Parents and Children

Winter in Northwest Connecticut is Almost Over, But Here's What It Looked Like. Thanks White Memorial for This Video of Pie Hill in Winter.4 comments

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IT'S TIME TO SAY GOODBYE7 comments

Words We Women Write wrote 1 month ago: Come along and sing this song ~ Thanks, Annette, for the company. Toni 4/9/13 … more →

Tags: annette funicello, postaday, postaweek 2013, mouseketeers, Childhood

To All My Adventurous Kids and Their Beloveds: More Comparisons to Winnie the Pooh. (A 3rd Poem in So Many Days for NaPoWriMo)6 comments

Words We Women Write wrote 1 month ago: I picture you like Pooh in a Hundred Acre Woods One day you’re walking vigorously, another day you’r … more →

Tags: memoir, Philosophies of Life, WorDs, Poetry, Teaching and Learning, Parents and Children, Joy, postaday, NaPoWriMo

Tips on Parenting from the Hundred Acre Wood (via Patty) (a non-420 character poem for the Poem a Day for One Month Project--NaPoWriMo to you)3 comments

Words We Women Write wrote 1 month ago: I hear Dad give you kids tips on swimming, but, since I’m newly emerged from the Hundred Acre Woods … more →

Tags: random thoughts, Philosophies of Life, coping with adversity, Education 2, Blogging, WorDs, Poetry, Journaling, Parents and Children


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