This morning I went out to meet a past co-worker for coffee and I heard birds singing! Not just any birds…spring birds! I am pretty sure what I heard were robins! Immediately, I started thinking how the return of songbirds might be a better indicator of spring than trusting groundhogs! From these sounds and thoughts,…
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…
When my husband and I visited Grand Canyon National Park last month, our first stop inside the park grounds, late on our day of arrival, was the Desert View Lookout. It offers first-time visitors, such as us, their first expansive views of the Grand Canyon. I cannot come up with any adjectives that adequately describe…
Fortunate Genes I consider my family both unusual and fortunate in that we are all capable of self-teaching. From building furniture to growing a fruit orchard, or building a house, From creating jewelry, games, and wallets on a CNC machine, From learning water color painting in grad school, to composing music, From origami to colored…
We’ve never had a “normal” work week in our family. Years ago, thirty five to be exact, we were two young medical professionals. This meant shift work in all shapes and sizes. I worked primarily twelve hour nights Friday – Sunday which meant I had Monday – Friday off during the day for graduate school….
One of the most satisfying, yet challenging, writing lessons I did with my former writer’s circle group was pourquoi tales. These are stories that tell how or why something came to exist. As you might imagine they are difficult to write but fun to read. Even though my students were above benchmark third graders, writing…
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 duplicate in any form without permission. Thank you. Today is day 21/31 of the Slice of Life Story Challenge. Thank you to TwoWritingTeachers.org for hosting…
For Christmas, I asked for and received a bullet journal. I am already a highly organized person, but there are some tasks that continue to escape me. One is publishing a book. I am hoping that early this year, I can find a way to keep me on track to accomplish that goal in 2021….
Tom Turkey said, gobble, gobble as he took a small wobble towards the shiny fence that cost more than a few pence. A young child approached sure the perimeter could be broached at least by my finger while I linger thought the child. The tall man said, do not put your finger in the pen….
Between your walls all those years ago. What was it like? Were you cold in the winter or did your fire keep you warm? Trees from the woods made your walls. Old oaks from a savanna that is no more, now covered with buckthorn galore. We know their age from counting their rings, the trees…