Tag: authors

• Princesses and Guardian Angels

  

  I did not realize I was dressed for the Breton Ball when I began reading this. 🖼—Peeko The angel is at eye level now; he greets her. He comforts Mama when she feels sad. 💕 He stays near as I read, beside my writing box, with my love sent to him.

  02/12/2023 8:00 pm

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• Servant of Love by Patty Griffin, with One Favorite Thing About Monday

  One Favorite Thing About Monday Finding 2 new favorite poems, by W.B. Yeats, instead of one (I am practicing them for your listen), and how he’d once said (paraphrased): “You give a poem its fine machinery, and that is all you do,” with his poems of lakes and isles and clover and honey…My favorite poems…

  01/31/2023 7:59 am

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• Pocket Delights: a Day Mostly ‘Unplugged’ and a Surrealist Sketch I Drew

  

  After my nap in the sunlight, I continued reading and completed the book I had mentioned, a funny memoir by Jen Lancaster, but I won’t say anything more yet, I am looking forward to discussing it with the Book Club in person. It’s been a refreshing (I did actually put down the blog today 🙂…

  01/24/2023 7:43 pm

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• Just Two More Things: A Secret Story to Gift and a Novel Read

  

  (This is my fortune cookie today, featured photo: I could have written it! You know 😅And maybe I did, indirectly, with “algorithms.”) I said I would go on my blog vacation, then I left on a sad note and with my original blog theme needing to be restored, and it is working fine now…that has…

  12/20/2022 4:48 pm

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• Writing Your Novel, A Strategy: You May Start with a Question or Two of Choice in Real Life

  Writing can be in your mind or imagination, but building your story, it can really help as you write to get real life information just by asking an informal interview to someone of your choice you may find works in a field you know not much about. It does not have to translate the profession…

  12/09/2022 4:19 pm

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