Douglas and I had received the Pfizer vaccinations on yesterday, and after sitting for 15 minutes afterwards to ensure we had no severe reactions, we were allowed to leave. I didn't even feel the inoculation, having a wonderful young nurse who knew her craft. Feeling happy to have the process started and with the day... Continue Reading →
Happy, she holds her newborn child! Written for the Saturday Six Word Story Prompt from My Random Ramblings: Happy. I thought of that first moment when a new mother holds her child. Her happiness puts the pain and exhaustion behind her.
From Deadline. com Casting long shadows into the future, I watched the young black woman speak a poem of healing and possibility, and I felt such pride. Too often, as members of an earlier generation, we pedantically speak of the next generations as lacking understanding of what this nation is or could be. We think... Continue Reading →
You see me as I really am, not as you would have me to be, Accepting my warts and foibles, without asking me to change. And in the loveliness of your attention and welcoming looks, I find that I cease to feel so different from others or strange. You never ask if I could be... Continue Reading →
Goodbye, my sweet love. Memories help me to cope. Our reunion nears. Written for Heeding Haiku with Chevrefeuille from Mindlovemisery's Menagerie. The prompt called for a special kind of poem, a death poem, something I've never seen. I chose to write this for my beloeved son, Malcolm, whom I miss so much, even after 14... Continue Reading →
QUESTIONS: Why do we dream? What a great question, and I don't have an answer. I remember Mrs. Stackhouse, one of my former teachers telling us that dreams were what happened to us in other lives. I knew that couldn't be right, because that night I dreamed of falling and landing in a pool of... Continue Reading →
This week, Mindlovemisery's Menagerie asked us to consider the concept of Two Minds at Loggerheads. “Loggerheads as in minds in conflict from which there doesn’t seem a simple solution.” We can't seem to find any common ground, And find that two minds at loggerheads is bad. So, maybe we will agree to disagree sometimes, Because... Continue Reading →
He seemed irresistible standing in the front of the dive bar on 8th Street! To say he was gorgeous was an understatement, if she'd ever heard one. Standing beside a beautiful girl, whose rose-quartz colored dress was embedded with crystals and had been designed to hug her aortistic numbers of curves, Calla thought that she... Continue Reading →
I cancelled my subscription to the diet program that I was using to get to my weight-loss goal. I was encouraged to become a lifetime member. But as a retiree, I don't actually have a lot of resources to spend between $22 to $45 a month just to use the website to keep a record... Continue Reading →
My husband wished me a happy MLK Day this morning, and then proceeeded to ask me if I thought that hate is a natural part of us. I was taken aback, because Douglas is the most loving of people, and I don't remember ever seeing him show hate for anyone. When we finally met face-to-face... Continue Reading →
Help from Heaven 