Welcome Friends! If you want to know more about Poetry Friday, check this post by children’s author Renee M. LaTulippe. Happy Independence Day, too! I’m back to writing a little poetry and had fun with this acrostic this week: ACCOMPLISH Achieve your goal Complete a mission Congratulate yourself Only you can do this Make time…
I want to thank all of those in our community who sympathized with my two publishing issues last week. This week has been much better, as I’ve returned to writing about one of my passions – pollinators! It is Pollinator Week, and I’ve written three pieces on Medium about these essential insects. I’ll attach friend…
It’s been a tough two weeks. While our vacation was nice, I’ve been in a state of stress since arriving home. Why? Well, that is the focus of today’s post. When we arrived at our son’s in Colorado, I got a notification that the publisher and peer feedback on my 12,000+ word chapter for a…
A Poetry Friday Post Two years ago, I tutored an Afghan student. She was living abroad as a refugee from her home country. We tackled an 8th-grade curriculum together, which included algebra, English as a second language, geography, and science. It was a fulfilling role for me. Towards the end of our year together, her…
Good Poetry Friday, wherever you are! Currently, I am in the great State of Utah. We are on our southwestern National Parks trip. It is the second of such trips – the first was in 2021. I don’t know where the last five years have gone! On this trip, we traveled to Denver by plane…
Round and round you go, where you get off, nobody knows… Poetry Friday is here this week! Hello! Poetry Friday is here this week! If you want to know more about what Poetry Friday is, please see this post by children’s author and poet, Renee M. La Tulippe. The Ferris Wheel Come to find out,…
Welcome to Poetry Friday! Our host for this week is the talented and fellow nature lover, Rose Cappelli. You can join the round-up on her blog at Imagine the Possibilities. This week, I want to celebrate Jone Rush MacCulloch’s new book, Tilt, by offering my review of this novel in verse. I’ve been blessed by…
I’m jumping in late today for Poetry Friday because Jone is our host this week. She has been such a support to me over the last couple of years that I try to return support to her in any way I can. Please visit her website @ https://www.jonerushmacculloch.com/ for all the latest. She’s been busy…
Yesterday, I saw a post on social media that posed the question in my title. I was interested to see what people had written, expecting to see a lot of one person’s name. I was pleasantly surprised that I didn’t. I’ll reveal what I expected at the end of my post. This realization just showed…
I woke up today thinking it was Saturday. All week, I wanted to try writing an Ovillejo, a form of poetry that some of the Poetry Friday participants challenged us to try writing last week. But the week got away from me. It was also snowing, so I sat down and decided to try the…