Category: Uncategorized

• Walther P38s and Bedpans

  Bedpans and Walther P38s (A Christmas to Remember) Part One *A short story that is loosely based on true events of Christmases past: 90 percent pure fiction. Many people escape via expensive out-of-the-country vacations or by weekend get-a-ways. Some escape by watching movies or by playing games. Me? I Amazon. I’m addicted to seeing that […]

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  December 3, 2018

  as the world turns, Blogging, blogging fundamentals, firstfridays, Personal, the days of our lives, True Stories, Uncategorized, What is normal?

  Christmas SNAFUS, IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE, IT’S aMadMad World, JustWhenYouThink, MyBad, silliness, Writing4Fun

• Quest

  

      Letters float and bubble up, they string on weathered thread, like popcorn strands on Christmas trees. I clutch and nick and chomp and chew, subsequently disintegrate, with painful, funny, contorting moue. Letter float and bubble up, black on white in cytoplasmic fill, they string and coil as DNA that replicate I mush and […]

  spoon13

  October 27, 2018

  Blogging, blogging fundamentals, firstfridays, Grasping for words, Personal, Uncategorized, Writer’s block

  Goofing around, Lava lamps, Letters of the alphabet, Moue, Personal, Rants, Saturday Mornings, silliness, Stop the insanity, Thoughts on paper, Where did all the letters go?, Writing

• Day 364

  I am ending day 364 doing what I love: writing for the pure joy of writing.  The little ditty below contains 16 names familiar to my childhood. Can you guess what they refer to?* Through the days of my life, I have ascribed to a guiding light, While leading all my children through the edge […]

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  September 27, 2018

  as the world turns, Blogging, Personal, search for tomorrow, the days of our lives, Uncategorized

  In another world, In search of tomorrow, Personal, Secret storms, silliness, the days of our lives, Writing

• Oh, the places I will go. (Refining the bucket list)

  Thus far, I’ve only admired these dreamy destinations as they decorate my walls. A couple of imaginary destinations I dream of in the night:

  spoon13

  September 17, 2018

  Blogging, Bucket Lists, Dreaming of, Personal, Travel Destinations, Uncategorized

  Autobiographical, Bucket Lists, dreams, Personal, travels, True Stories

• Ode to September

  September We wonder, September, who, what star will sing new, And who, what star will wax far away. Your third sapphire day’s star arose shimmering bright only to apex and implode into the heavens and dissipated. The black it left is as bright as the light. This, too, is to your ode. Star light, star […]

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  September 4, 2018

  Blogging, Catastrophic Experience, Death, On the Loss of a Grandchild, Personal, Teen Suicide, True Stories, Uncategorized

  Death, Flashbacks, Personal, Teen Suicide, The Struggle is Real, True Stories, Writing

• Echoes––Part Two

  The conclusion to Jack and Holly’s adventures reads below. Their expedition is based on factual events. Following the story is a list of what really happened. Echoes––The Conclusion “Look Holly,” Jack commanded, “I found a family name here, my family, I mean.” Holly looked up from the book she was searching through at a table […]

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  August 30, 2018

  Blogging, blogging fundamentals, Coos Bay, Oregon, firstfridays, Genealogy, Personal, True Stories, Uncategorized, Yoakam Family

  Autobiographical, Family History of the Yoakams, Genealogy, Personal, True Stories, Writing

• Echoes, Part 1

    I’m posting, in two parts, a short story written as a classroom assignment. This is based on true events that occurred in the ancestral line of my paternal grandmother, my great-great grandparents, John and Eliza Yoakam, who settled in Coos Bay, Oregon in the mid 1850s. Echoes, Part One   “Turn left here,” Jack […]

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  August 18, 2018

  blogging fundamentals, Catastrophic Experience, Death, firstfridays, Little Towns, Personal, True Stories, Uncategorized

  Autobiographical, Intropections, Personal, The Struggle is Real, True Stories, Writing

• Dirty Deeds Done on Spoon Lane–– Part Two

  It’s strange to think how selective memory can be: I remember details leading up to, during, and following this event, but I cannot remember what my punishment was from the courts. I must have been let off the hook legally, but rest assured parental punishment was indeed plotted, planned, and executed. After the story’s conclusion, […]

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  August 11, 2018

  blogging fundamentals, firstfridays, Little Towns, Personal, School Days, Self Awareness, True Stories, Uncategorized

  Autobiographical, bloggingfundamentals, Emancipation, Flashbacks, My bad, Personal, Rants, Saturday Mornings, Self-imposed prisons, Stop the insanity, The Struggle is Real, True Crime, True Stories

• Dirty Deeds Done on Spoon Lane

  I can’t even. Think. I’ve never this stumped before.  Writing prompts are not improving the flow of creative energy through the synapses of this brain.  So, I decided to post this essay that won second place in my university writing contest in two parts.   Dirty Deeds Done on Spoon Lane (Part One) Anderson Union […]

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  August 8, 2018

  blogging fundamentals, Epic Fail, firstfridays, Lifelines, Little Towns, Personal, School Days, Self Awareness, Uncategorized

  Autobiographical, bloggingfundamentals, cracked pots, Emancipation, Labels, My bad, Oopsie daisy., Personal, Rants, Stop the insanity, The Struggle is Real, True Crime, True Stories, Writing

• The Woman in the Wallpaper Part Three

  Today’s post is the conclusion to the short essay titled “The Woman in the Wallpaper.” The piece was composed in response to a course requirement at Simpson University. This true account was originally written in past tense. At the advice of my professor, for the purpose of this blog (and other future publications) it was […]

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  July 29, 2018

  blogging fundamentals, Burn Surviors, Lifelines, Personal, Self Awareness, Trauma, Uncategorized

  cracked pots, Crash and Burn, Death, Emancipation, Flashbacks, Labels, Personal, Rants, Self-imposed prisons, Shame, Stop the insanity, Surviving Burns, The Struggle is Real