Pray For Harmony
Earlier this week, a post appeared on my FB page, saying that the parents of the teenaged girl shot and badly injured on Tuesday in yet another school shooting in [...]
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Mar, 2018
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Mar, 2018
The Lizard
Written at Thursday Group, after a guided meditation in which we were invited to imagine finding a gift under the water, and then transforming into a flower. My friends told me [...]
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Feb, 2018
Please Don’t Do This
I've been watching and listening to the talk on TV, radio and social media, and I felt compelled to write this. Please share if you agree. If you don't agree, [...]
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Feb, 2018
The Woman in the White Hat
This is a bizarre little story I wrote in our Thursday night group. My goal was to use every prompt, and to make my friends laugh. Prompts: her eyes were [...]
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Feb, 2018
Tearing Down A Wall
Susan was charmed when her three-year-old son asked for a baby doll. Drew had a variety of action figures and plush animals, but now he wanted a baby to feed [...]
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Feb, 2018
Dragon Pants
She came to work wearing her dragon pants, the ones with the scales from thigh to ankle and the heavy yellowish green tail that drags behind her when she paces [...]
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Jan, 2018
Welcome Mary
A bit of musing written with my Thursday night writing group. Prompt: no such thing as. . . There's no such thing as Easter Bunnies or Santa Clauses or Tooth [...]
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Jan, 2018
Edible Emotion
Last fall the U.S. Food and Drug Administration got a bit irked at a bakery that claimed "love" in the list of ingredients in its granola. The agency ruled that [...]
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Jan, 2018
One Earth
I was just looking at a group selfie, taken a few weeks ago at a Christmas brunch with my long-time friends from high school. For the record, we graduated together [...]
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Jan, 2018
Blessings in Disguise
Wallowing in post-holiday exhaustion/annoyance/envy/loneliness yet paradoxically grateful to have some alone time, then BAM!--stunned by the unexpected yet unsurprising news that a good friend has died, and suddenly I am [...]