Happy New Year’s Eve! I hope everyone reading this post has a safe, joyous, and healthy new year! We are at our cabin and I’m editing three essays I wrote, cutting and cutting words to make the delineated amount allowed. I hope to have something to submit by the end of the day! Fortunately, it’s…
We’ve been busy today. It’s 2:30 p.m. and we’ve driven up to the Twin Cities and back already. The metro area of Minneapolis – St. Paul is two and a half hours away from where we live if you drive one way. You do the math – that’s five hours on the road. We dropped…
We tried a new salad for our Christmas dinner this year. Usually, I make a napa cabbage salad with hot bacon dressing that has been our favorite holiday meal salad for years. We just had it at Thanksgiving and usually serving it is repeated at Christmas. But, I wanted something different. In one of the…
Today is Silent Sunday. It is a day that I share my photographs without words on a theme of my choosing. All photos and the video are copyrighted by Carol Labuzzetta. No permission exists to duplicate in any form. Thank you!
I’ve long known what my name means. My given name, Carol, means joyous song. It is British in origin and the female version of Charles. I was named not for these reasons but because my mother had three close friends all named Carol – a popular name, apparently for a girl baby born in the…
I’ve been trying to scale back my blogging to allow me time to write and accomplish some other goals. This is hard while still having a desire to keep my regular blog readers engaged in my posts. Therefore, some of my posts are becoming shorter. Some might consider this a very good thing! As the…
We all romanticize some things about our childhood and for me, it is the memory of my Grandma’s cutout cookies at Christmas time. I remember the smell of her house when she was baking, sweet anise filled the air along with the smell of the soft sugary white cookie in the oven. Her dining room…
Today is Silent Sunday. Taking photographs of the places I’ve traveled to is a favorite pastime. All images are copyrighted by me, Carol Labuzzetta. Please do not duplicate in any form without express permission.
A Sanibel Memory Tiny broken shards of shell Strewn across the ground like Broken glass Summer’s breath hot and strong Blows across the beach Making it hard to stand Your blue bucket tips Shells scatter, blown farther than Your little legs can carry you No tears, just laughter, as you Struggle to stay standing in…
Today is my 1600th blog post! Wow! Today, I also find myself bereft of topics to write about. I’ve visited prompt pages, looked in my draft folder, and read some other blogs. Meh. Nothing stirs me. Lately, I’ve felt that I am forcing my writing. Not all of it. But, certainly, some of it. I’ve…