Slightly Silent Sunday: National Parks & Haiku
National Park Lands Conserved Beauty for Us All Vast Sprinkled Treasures Please note all photographs are copyrighted by Carol Labuzzetta, whether watermarked or not. No permission exists to copy or…
Category: blog writing challenges
Will Discouragement be Overcome Again?
It’s at this point in the Slice of Life Story Challenge, a little more than half way through, that I always get discouraged. Five years running, I can count on…
Bat Cave Shock
I stood there, in the near blackness of the cave, in three inches of water. The sump pump was next to my boots with the electric cord visible through the…
A Time to Prune
Today we pruned the trees in our home fruit orchard. Thirty trees altogether, there are apple, cherry, plum, and pear. Most of the trees are apple of which we have…
Slice of Life Story Challenge 2021: Four Years Later & Blog Post 1,320
Today, is my one thousandth, three hundredth, and twentieth blog post! That’s right I’ve made 1,320 posts to The Apples In My Orchard! It all started just before the Slice…
More Mask Making
Writing every day with substance and relevance is hard. Most days, the words flow from my mind on to the computer screen with minimal effort. Some days, it is a…
Poetry Friday: Writing Poetry with Students
Several years ago, when I had writer’s circle, the students tried their hand at writing the several types of poems during our month long unit which ran from mid-February to…
Slice of Life Tuesday: Why We Need Art
You’d think that with so much time at home, time would seem to slow down, but we all seem busier than ever! Today, already, we picked up my son’s locker…
