Happy Thanksgiving weekend, everyone! I’ve been busy this week, as most of you have been. My creative juices are flowing again, and I’ve been writing some poems, editing others, crocheting a gift, ordering more, and making additional pieces of my handcrafted jewelry. It’s a busy time of year for all! Earlier this week, I wrote…
Happy Poetry Friday, Friends! This week saw considerable progress on the upcoming new anthology Picture Perfect Poetry: An Anthology of Ekphrastic Nature Poetry For Students. In fact, I should be ready to send it in for a proof copy today! I am so excited that this project came together. The book is beautiful! Thank you…
My blog was posted to Medium.com today. You can view the piece here. I am co-posting most days from WordPress to Medium. Today, I wrote on Medium and am posting the link here. I am looking for more followers on my medium.com page. Please consider following my writing there. Thanks.
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…
Over the last month, I’ve written several times about a health crisis our family had with my mom. It is now four weeks after sepsis landed her in an ICU bed for a week. This was followed by a step-down inpatient unit for a few days, until a rehab bed was secured in a transitional…
Last night I awoke at 1:40 a.m.. I was wide awake, bothered by thoughts that I’ve had before concerning conversations, comments, things I notice during social events, and even just while out in the community. I felt like a cow chewing on cud swallowed previously and brought up again to be chewed on some more….
It is mid-February and typically not a great time of year for me. We have had a lot of sun this year, which makes an appearance of Seasonal Affective Disorder unlikely. I do not mind the cold, but prolonged periods of oppressive clouds and a grayish color to the sky can affect my moods. It…
Tuesdays are always a day I put a little more consideration into the topic on which I will write. It is because the piece will also be posted to the Slice Of Life Tuesdays blog forum from TwoWritingTeachers in which other educators also post their pieces. We share ideas, feelings, lesson plans, challenges, and rewards…
Intensity, hard to live with even harder for others to understand. Thoughts consume as they are ruminated and then spit out like cud only to be left on the floor without being digested. Never the same. Never understood. Useful? No, not really. Unrelatable? Yes, for most. Untenable? So, I am told. When a passion overrides rational…