I could conjure up a sentence and break it up into lines and lines and lines and lines and call it poetry. I just don’t get it. Recently, in a writing club that I frequent, I brought up the topic of free verse poetry. I just wasn’t happy with a lot of the poems I’d been reading lately — on the forums, on web sites, all over the net. It seems that this free verse poetry thing is all over…
So the holidays have come and gone. I’m no longer an 8-year-old with a loot to lord over, no inventory of gifts galore gracing my toy box. Nope. No siree. This year, my loot totalled two gifts — and dagnabit, do I feel lucky. Two received for two given, and I’m even-Steven. It’s amazing how the number of presents we receive sort of dwindles as we get older. I guess people figure we’re all old enough to withstand the disappointment….
I have got to move out of this neighborhood. Not only do I have to contend with the neighbors, but I have to watch the trailer trash and illegal immigrant types let their kids run around loose in the parking lots,… as though cars don’t drive around there legally, as potential killers of human offspring. Talk about retroactive birth control! The parents either don’t know, don’t care, or don’t pay attention. On our weekly grocery shopping trip today, I actually…
This lemonade stand CEO was almost beat. It’s been nothing but work, work, work, and drive, drive, drive. Last week was not pretty. In fact, I don’t think last week has even ended yet; I don’t remember even having a weekend. Let’s see: I did my full-time work during the day, drove home, did my freelance work during the night, went to sleep, and drove back to work again — day after day after day. I had to come in…
November has turned into December, and in the end I never needed the Thanksgiving holiday. We went out for dinner and had not a sliver of turkey, which I don’t like anyway because even the juiciest turkey is too dry for me; I also went back to work on Friday because the deadlines were looming, and I wanted to save myself the pain of a stressful Monday. So the four-day Thanksgiving weekend sort of passed me by. Not that I…