Welcome to Poetry Friday! Our host this week is Rose at her blog, Imagine the Possibilities. Be sure to stop by her page for more inspiring poetry. Thanks for hosting, Rose. Last week, I wrote about Flanders Fields and WWI. We visited Flanders at the end of our Viking River Cruise, staying in Bruges for…
Hello and welcome to Poetry Friday. Molly Hogan has the roundup here if you’d like some inspiration from her recent work and participation in a workshop. Thanks for hosting, Molly! Summer has gone fast. Our hillside project going to the dock is nearing completion. My husband has worked hard at engineering this space and, as usual, has…
My friend gave me a book of poetry last month. It is entitled To Bless This Space Between Us (2007) by John O’Donohue. Wikipedia has this to say:John O’Donohue (1 January 1956 – 4 January 2008) was an Irish poet, author, priest, and Hegelian philosopher. He was a native Irish speaker,[1] and as an author is best known for popularising Celtic spirituality…
Please do something to help our pollinators! Stay tuned this week, Pollinator Week 2026, to read about pollinators, their plight, and what we can do to help them. Since my article in 2021, I’ve become a Certified Pollinator Steward through Pollinator Partnership, planted three native beds, moved to a more rural and Northern Climate, and…
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…
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,…
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…
