VJ’s Weekly Challenge: Spring Acrostic

March 22, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Last. week was a mind teaser. This week we’ll keep it a little simpler (hopefully) Choose any word that relates to Spring and create an acrostic poem. Here’s a sample: VibrantEarthRenewingNurturingAll Life To participate, create a post and link back here, or drop a note in the comments. Looking forward to your creations.

Reaching For the Sun

March 21, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

For Weekend Sky challenge

A Country Drive

March 18, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

For Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge: Pick a topic from a photo.

All About The Scenery

March 17, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

It’s the beauty of this place that drew us here. For Nancy Merrill’s A Photo a Week Challenge: All about the scenery.

A Treasured Moment

March 16, 2021.Reading time 1 minute.

Winter of 2018. I am just regaining my legs after three years bedbound. Ric, forever the problem solver, proposes that we put wheels on the bedroom and drive south. Doctors write me a report to accompany our journey, and we head out in November. It’s a struggle at first and I’m doubting my ability to […]

VJ’s Weekly Challenge: Describe but don’t reveal

March 15, 2021.Reading time 1 minute.

Post a poem, prose, art, photograph, or other that illustrates but doesn’t reveal the subject. (Don’t forget to link back here.) Here’s an example: A Friend Indeed Friend, you guidemy brain-fogged,somnambulist limbs –like a mindless automaton;I follow, barely registeringmovement – grateful fordeliverance into thefullness of day. Once, I abhorredyour consistency,your stifling repetition,found your dependencymind-numbing, soulless […]

Pink Ribbons in the Sky

March 14, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

For Weekend Sky

Kitchen Nooks

March 12, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

For Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Things found in a kitchen

Orange!

March 11, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

For Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge: orange

4 O’clock is Tea Time

March 10, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

For Nancy Merrill’s Photo a Week Challenge: take a new photo. A glimpse of my kitchen.

Dear Child

I know a little girl,whose hair in ringletsfalls, unkempt from lackof brushing; who standswhen she should be sitting;who laughs with defiance whenchallenged, her dark eyes gleamingwith mischief; who holds her chin uphigh and stamps her feet, arms foldedin protest when she does not get her way. I see that little girl,have watched her play,with a […]

Re-de-fine-d

Ask me how I’m doingand I’ll say “fine”, notbecause I’m actually fine,but because “fine” is the onlysocially acceptable response. If I said that I have been lyinghere, for three hours now,willing my body to move,that would elicit unsolicitedadvice and tarnish my “fine”. I’d berate myself for breakingmy promise not to moan,knowing that complainingprovokes a compulsive […]