Puzzles with Breakfast Every morning I sit down with my breakfast and do an online jigsaw puzzle or two. I used to do a crossword puzzle printed in the morning paper until realized I was paying the price for delivered paper and the only thing I did was the crossword puzzle. I didn’t even read the news most of the…
or how do YOU decorate? The other night I was standing in the middle of the road (cause that’s how we do around here) talking to some neighbors. We are a chatty gossipy group and eventually, our attention turned to the holidays. After the usually are you ready yet? what are you doing etc. I mentioned that I was going…
Or how to make up for lost sleep The other day I got a call to come in and get my booster shot for Covid. So I did. The appointment was for 2:25 and there was a stern warning to not come early. So I didn’t. I should have though. The line outside was long. really long. It turns out…
The fog creeps in at night, covering the earth in a malevolent cloak, concealing the ne’er-do-well, stealing the stars from the sky until the morning sun sends the fog back to whence it came in wisps of reluctant tendrils, murmuring of things to come once the dark of night returns.
Why shopping at home and try it before you buy it is the bomb I recently decided I need a new bathing suit. I am finally to point that I am off most of the meds the pulmonologist put me on and injections in the knees for arthritis. I can now start to get serious about exercise. I got the…
Or How My Sister Scared The Crap Out Of Me. Our house in Hawaii was a four-bedroom, two-bath home. It was large, but our family was large. My mom took one of the rooms as the master, then I and my little sister had one room, my three older sisters had the actual master and my brothers had the other…
Atop Horseback My favorite place was on horseback. My family had just moved from Hawaii to California. It was a hard time. Mom and dad were separated. My brother was recently deceased. We no longer had a nice house and had to live in low-income apartments with peeling paint and questionable plumbing. My older sisters went straight to high school,…
. There are picnic tables with those sail tent things over them for shade. The overgrown plantings are gone and replaced with better-looking plants or grass. I only saw 1 river cat. Doesn’t mean there aren’t more, but usually see a ton of them. The best thing? Sea Lions were under the Rio Vista Bridge calling for more art.
The title is the Writer’s Prompt I got. Below is the result of that prompt. I was about 6 before I learned how to tie my shoes. Who taught me is in dispute among my sister,s but it was a combination of two sisters. One big sister taught me the correct way and for some reason, my brain could not…
I went swimming in a nuclear pond On the first day of my summer vacation, I went swimming in a cooling pond for a nuclear power plant. Nothing has happened to me, no new growths or extra limbs. The pond was never used for its intended purpose and turned into a recreational area. One can swim in the cooling pond…
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