I would except that… There’s always a reason, an explanation, an excuse. There’s the right thing… but what do you do with the others? I’m going to make the right choices… but you made this cake for me, how can […]
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Oops!
NaHaiWriMo poetry prompt for September 17: OOPS! Write about something that turns out not quite the way you had planned. A mistake, clumsiness, thinking one thing but doing another, slipping, sliding, goofing, embarrassing yourself to yourself or others, awkwardness etc. […]
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I remember not being invited because it seemed like my life. You’d leave as a group as I stayed, longing to be one of you. I remember when I learned nobody invited you, either, and I was welcome. You thought […]
Continue reading »When It’s a Planet
I’m learning to let go when the need to judge someone else looms large — to let them be foolish or wise, right or wrong. It’s not as easy to let go when I’m doing as told, showing up, reporting […]
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I know very well that, as a writer, you should *never* compare yourself to other writers, because that way lies madness. ~ Adrian Bedford All my life I’ve surveyed the crowd though seldom interacting. No, I stood apart, in my […]
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