Lots About Books—and War – January 3 Per usual, I read a lot in 2015—as in 197 adult books and 46 youth and children’s books. I belong to a United Methodist Women’s BookWorms group that meets once a month and I read a lot of books from the...
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January 3, 2016 Ann
Ramblings
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Eliminating Excuses – January 1 It’s January first and many people are launching new diets on this day—reforming from the holidays and starting anew. I don’t diet anymore but I do adhere (part of the time) to the Weight Watcher eating program. I am a life time member...
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January 1, 2016 Ann
Things I've Learned
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The People in My House I live alone—and yet, all around me there are people. Each time I use the bejeweled tea bag squeezer, I think of Cathie who gave it to me. At first I didn’t even know whether I would use it. Now I use it...
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December 30, 2015 Ann
Things I've Learned
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Happy Thanksgiving Yesterday I received this quote and thought I would pass it on to you on this Thanksgiving Day: “Always give without remembering and always receive without forgetting.” It’s by Brian Tracy. I had not heard of him before but he is CEO of Brian Tracy International,...
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November 26, 2015 Ann
Daily Writing
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Simple Living—Take Two I shared with you the other day a paradelle I wrote on simple living. It was fun to write and I wanted to try writing one. But in terms of a form to use for the topic of simple living, it was totally mismatched. And...
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September 25, 2015 Ann
Daily Writing
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Simple Living and a Paradelle I’ve never written a paradelle before. It’s a poetry form concocted by Billy Collins, almost as a joke and then people started writing them. See if you can figure out the ingredients of the form. It was fun to write. Simple (A Paradelle)...
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September 19, 2015 Ann
Daily Writing
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Driving Energy Some of you know this about me. Some of you don’t. Maybe it’s time to put you all on the same page. Driving Energy I think of the old-fashioned coffee percolator with the clear glass ball on top where you saw the coffee bubble up with...
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September 12, 2015 Ann
Daily Writing
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Nested Meditation I recently read an article by Kevin Anderson called “The Nested Meditation.” His directions for writing one was that each stanza is a place where you can pause to meditate. The very first stanza is simply one line. The next stanza continues beyond what you wrote...
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September 7, 2015 Ann
Daily Writing
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Grandchild / Grandmother Several years ago as I asked for birthday suggestions for one of my grandsons, and his mother (one of my daughters) told me the type of shirt he liked and his size. She also said, “He’s really hard to buy clothes for, Mother. He has...
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August 31, 2015 Ann
Daily Writing
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Writing I’m not promising a post every day—but I AM writing something every day. Here’s a poem back from the early weeks of doing this daily stuff. Writing there once was a woman who tried to create a chant or a poem each day before eight she tossed...
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August 28, 2015 Ann
Daily Writing
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