Preferred Fashion

September 5, 2019.Reading time 1 minute.

Age allots me the excuse to ignore fashion,invites me to wear bright colours, dance in offbeat shoes, wear hats of any flair,and announce my mood in any given moment. Yes, being a senior citizen is most freeing –not unlike my childish kin. (For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: fashion. Also submitting to V.J.’s weekly challenge: child/ […]

Nothing Here

August 24, 2019.Reading time less than 1 minute.

For Proscenium’s Friday Follies.

Historic…

August 16, 2019.Reading time less than 1 minute.

For Proscenium’s Friday Follies.

Better Believe It!

August 9, 2019.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Actually, I haven’t been inside, so I can’t make judgment, but I will say they are not humble. For Proscenium’s Friday Follies.

Have a Peel In Need?

August 2, 2019.Reading time less than 1 minute.

For Proscenium’s Friday Follies

Too Much?

July 26, 2019.Reading time less than 1 minute.

For Proscenium’s Friday Follies.

Oh, Petunia

July 26, 2019.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Sweet petunia, loveexploded at first sight – sigh,never meant to last. (For Cee’s Flower of the Day)

Such a Romantic!

July 19, 2019.Reading time less than 1 minute.

For Proscenium’s Friday Follies.

Like My Kitchen

July 12, 2019.Reading time less than 1 minute.

#profri

A Bargain at $9.99

June 7, 2019.Reading time less than 1 minute.

For Proscenium’s Friday Follies. Sign found in the local deli.

Where Are The Dogs?

Contemplating risk –a reunion with a former selflooking for an exit When did I become a snakerestrained?When did I become persona non grata? I slither between storiesconvince myself I can flydistraction a ruse I have big cat energyoverstepping boundariessocially adverse A faulty jeweldreaming of abundance but there’s a dragon to disarm My mother’s burden on my […]

Turning (tanka)

Mother

When I had a mothermy hair would cascadein curls of auburn perfectiona red velvet bow to accentuate the wave And I’d wear my bestnewly sewn frockwith lace at the neckand fishnet stockingsand patent Mary Janes And the girls giggling with delightwould skip hand-in-handto the school promand the boys shyly perchedagainst the back wall would wonderhow […]