VJ’s Weekly Challenge #119: soft

November 2, 2020.Reading time 2 minutes.

“It’s the hard things that break; soft things don’t break. It was an epiphany I had today and I just wonder why it took me so very, very long to see it! You can waste so many years of your life trying to become something hard in order not to break; but it’s the soft […]

Frost Warning

November 1, 2020.Reading time 2 minutes.

Nature herself seems confused these days – flowers linger despite the frosty chill. Inside, we prepare to hunker down for the cold weather, knowing that there is always potential for hindered travel. Isolation plays with the mind, conjures certainty of malfeasance. Ric’s recovery is slow and his spirit is lagging. I feel somehow left behind, […]

VJ’s Weekly Challenge #118: frost

October 26, 2020.Reading time less than 1 minute.

There is frost on the pumpkin, and Jack Frost, and Robert Frost, and frosty stares, and a cake to frost. I’ll likely be outside trying to capture frosty images. Where will this challenge take you? Can’t wait to read.

Trash The Script…Please!

October 25, 2020.Reading time 5 minutes.

“There’s a sit-com in here somewhere,” I tell a friend, relaying how our week has gone. “Except no one would believe it,” she retorts. She could be right. I don’t even want to write it here: all seems so beyond the realm of possibility. Ric and I have found a rhythm. I look after his […]

VJ’s Weekly Challenge #117: except

October 19, 2020.Reading time 3 minutes.

In anticipation of hubby’s return from hospital, I had it all planned: get him settled, run prescriptions to the pharmacy, pick up a pre-roasted chicken and salads, then home to nurse him to wellness. Except, the chickens were sold out and the salads picked over, and the pharmacy backed up, and when I finally got […]

October Skies

October 17, 2020.Reading time less than 1 minute.

For Hammad Rais’s Weekend Skies

Communication

October 14, 2020.Reading time less than 1 minute.

All day, as I try to write, the birds chatter outside my windows. Happy talk mostly, but the occasional row: My favourite image of communication is the understanding between a child and dog: (For Lens-artists challenge: communication.)

VJ’s Weekly Challenge #116: Reason

October 12, 2020.Reading time 1 minute.

We can reason our way through a problem, or be the reason for something happening, or believe in a higher reason for all that befalls us. Let this week’s prompt take you where it will, regardless of the reason. Look forward to your responses, and having a bit of fun with this myself. All are […]

Weather Or Not

October 11, 2020.Reading time 2 minutes.

The plan was to meet in a park so that the children could play and the adults could social distance. It’s Canadian Thanksgiving. Getting together with family is a tradition. Three nights in a row, I have suffered insomnia. October has brought fluctuating temperatures and skies that shift from bright promise to somber clouds. My […]

Weekend Sky (New challenge)

October 10, 2020.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Hammad Rais has started a new photography challenge: Weekend sky. Here is my contribution. October skies over southwestern Ontario truly are spectacular.

Wings

(Written during my bedbound years with ME/CFS)

Myalgic Encephalomyelitis

May is Myalgic Encephalomyelitis awareness month. Also known as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, this disease is characterized by exhaustion after exertion. The exertion can be physical -taking a shower; emotional – worrying or obsessing; or mental- filling out forms. The best source of information about ME/cfs, as we call it, is the Bateman Horne Center. They […]

Sorry

Sorry –so much inadequacybundled into one wordas if five letterscan conveydepths of regret,shock, dismay seems I am the sparkto your lighter fluid –unintentional, I swear still reelingfrom the aftermathof the explosion attempting todeconstruct theformula –precautionary I am sorry –that you are enraged,that you are so obviously disappointedthat you are consumed with resentment –except, it is […]