If you read my blog regularly, you know my husband and I are moving – a month from today! Yikes! We’ve come a long way cleaning out but still have more to go. Gone from the house are large pieces of furniture. My husband sold his Toro, Zero Turn Mower, yesterday. My china hutch sold…
As part of our writers’ circle, we produced a third-grade newspaper for four years, from 2014-to 2017. The papers were all published from late April to late May, towards the end of the school year. All third-grade classrooms got copies that were two-sided and contained four-page spreads. And the classroom teachers allowed them to read…
Warning: this post is a mishmash of things. Being super busy packing up our house for our move, some things have been left to slide. In that vein, I apologize for being late with comments/return comments and other communications. I will get to them, I promise! Metaphor Dice Contest – I did submit four poems…
I’ve had a long desire to be published. And by long, I mean that it’s been a life-long dream. I remember writing when I was a new nurse practitioner and diagnosed a teen with an ovarian tumor. I tried writing about that. I remember writing my master’s thesis for Child Health – on sibling preparation…
I do not have any poetry of my own to share this week as I’ve been sick for several days and have not pursued any writing. I am starting to feel better. It is amazing that we are this far into the pandemic and I am now just getting COVID. I’m so thankful that I…
The Apples in My Orchard was started on February 23rd, 2017. I’ve been writing almost daily since! It is a reflective, personal blog that discusses some topics with passion and others with lightheartedness. Here you’ll find posts on education, travel, health, family life, nature, conservation, friendship, and lots of poems – some inspired and some…
I have always been interested in being published. This interest has permeated every career that I pursued and possessed. Because of the variety of professional positions I’ve held, my writing has taken different forms. I was first published in the late 1980s as part of a team of baccalaureate prepared nurses working at the University…