4/100 Funny Math
3/100 A Missing Decade
Poem 2/100 The Story Of My Birth
The 100 Day Project 2/100 A Note: The WordPress text editor does not support the formatting that I use in my poetry. To circumvent that issue, I have to post the poems as screen captures. This is why they appear slightly fuzzy. My apologies! Maybe during the next ninety-eight days I’ll find a better workaround.
100 Days – To Write A Poem
For three of the last five years I have participated in The 100 Day Project, “a free, global art project that takes place online.” People around the world commit to creating something every day for one hundred consecutive days. Artists can choose any type of creativity for the project–painting, drawing, sewing, mixed media art, Zentangle–this possibilities are endless. This is a way to get the creative juices moving in a concrete way every day. Many people…
Now I Understand!
Now I understand. When I was a young mother, thirty-five years ago (Yikes), I enjoyed going to the local mall by myself on Sunday afternoons to enjoy a little me time. Most of the time I was not shopping for anything in particular; I enjoyed just looking and perhaps finding some good sales. There were certain stores I frequented and there were those that I passed right by because they only carried “old lady clothing.” I don’t remember now what…
A Great Story
Over the last several days, my Facebook feed has been filled with ads for diet plans, exercise apps, and opportunities to ring in the new year. I’m sure that there are many people out there who are excited by the looming date change on the calendar, but what really changes between 11:59pm on December 31, 2023 and 12:00am on January 1, 2024 aside from the date itself, something that happens with every single twenty-four hour period? Lots of people use…
The Final Three
I love to write. I love to write almost anything – poetry, journal entries, blog posts, photography prompts, essays, to the point of preferring essay questions to fill-in-the-blank or multiple choice on a test. Why? Because I’d much rather find and use my own words to answer a question than try to do a mind meld with a teacher where I have to prove my understanding by finding the words that they are looking for, which does not prove that…
Open for Business
Happy Pi Day! Today is that day that number geeks, well maybe all geeks, get to sit around and see who can recite the longest run of pi’s infinite digits and then celebrate that victory by eating pie, indulging in calories and the security that the ratio of that round delicacy’s circumference to it’s diameter will always be a constant. Though I am fascinated by numbers, my first love will always be words. So in celebration of Pi Day, I…
Oh, The Pressure!
Blood pressure, that is. I embraced turning 60 on December 28, 2021. I celebrated the year leading up to that monumental birthday by making a list of sixty things that I wanted to accomplish by my sixtieth birthday. I managed to check many, but not all, of those things off of the list. Those items that still remained got moved to the seventy by 70 list. As an aside, it is hard to come up with this many things that…
Friends With Benefits
Last week I wrote about all the things that one might do when forced to stay at home for four days due to a dangerous ice storm. Though I might have benefitted from matching single socks, mastering the folding of fitted sheets, or rounding up all of my resident dust bunnies, I did none of these things. Once I got home from school last Monday afternoon and realized I would have the gift of staying put for a few days,…