Sub Zero Adventures, a short story from China. After a prolonged period of stability, I finally bid Belgium farewell in the summer of 2009. Uninspired by life in grey, uneventful Brussels, I headed off to China for an unforgettable year of teaching and traveling. —— Waiting for the hangman’s noose to be tied around our […]

Sub Zero Adventures, a short story from China.

Continuing my weekly posts on weeds and/or wild flowers growing in my garden, I am sharing a beauty this week. Some of you may consider it an invasive nuisance. But personally I love it! Goldenrod, Solidago canadensis Just outside our fence, but still on our property! The species that grows wild in abundance here is […]

Wild and Weedy Wednesday: 23rd August, 2023

Digging deep into my reserves Somewhere, somehow cozy within The aim was to achieve a state of Nirvana To shed the load of worries that were useless Weighing down my soul like stones tied around The feet of a body slowly sinking in the deep mire So once again, with a deep breath I ordered […]

In the coziness of my being

For dVerse. The prompt is bottle.

The Message

Image Credit: Joe Plenio | Pixabay Quiet parade At the break of day Stillness carnivals Start again Mending yesterday’s boats; Unfinished floats With reeds of Dawn ⟣⟣⟣ Written for David at The Skeptic’s Kaddish  #W3  prompt #69, where Poet of the Week, Angela Wilson invites us to write a poem of no less than five lines and no more […]

Stillness Carnivals – A Poem in Free Verse; #W3

I was excited to receive an email yesterday from Spillwords Press notifying me that I’m on the list of nominees for Author of the Month for August. I could not have reached this point on my writing journey without my WordPress followers’ friendship and support. I want to shout it out to all of you: […]

Nominated Author of the Month on Spillwords

The Thursday Doors is a weekly challenge at Dan Antion’s site No Facility for people who love doors and architecture to come together to admire and share their favorite door photos, drawings, or other images or stories from around the world. If you’d like to join us, simply create your own Thursday Doors post and then share a link to […]

Thursday Doors – Enchanted Forest

My husband and I took a day trip to downtown Columbus Ohio to check out the North Market. Living in a small town, we don’t have anything like this and we thought it was food that you bought then took home to prepare. Boy were we wrong! It is almost entirely made up of food […]

A Day In Columbus Ohio

“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”― Rabindranath Tagore, Wordless Wednesday is a simple blog post featuring a photo that conveys a message that speaks for itself without using words. Linking up with Sandee at Comedy Plus Wordless Wednesday -Eugi Copyright […]

Wordless Wednesday

Today marks the end of 3 good years, today marks the beginning of better years.You all made it possible, all I’ve is THANK YOU 🙏

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