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What’s to Eat! Sundays 4/5/2020 Traci Kenworth – A Dash of Seasons
What’s to Eat! Sundays 4/5/2020 Traci Kenworth Broccoli Chicken and Rice Bake Cheesy, succulent chicken on a bed of broccoli and rice! Yum! Comfort food at its best! Your family will enjoy this soothing meal any night of the week and ask for more. Adapted from Six Sister’s Stuff Prep Cook Time Total Time…
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Video Game Curiosities 4/5/2020 Traci Kenworth – A Dash of Seasons
Video Game Curiosities 4/6/2020 Traci Kenworth I remember when ATARI first came out. It had us kids transfixed for months on end. My family didn’t have one but one of my friend’s did and we spent many a day cloistered in his small apartment playing Pac-Man ads nauseum. Those little ghosts drove us crazy but…
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Pets Talk 4/9/2020: Bringing it All Together Traci Kenworth – A Dash of Seasons
Pets Talk 4/9/2020: Bringing it All Together Traci Kenworth When last we left our four space kitties, the Evil Emperor Midnight had waylaid the shipment of Lobster n’ Mac Cat Treats, the gentle giant, Snowball, and the Rebel Princess, Miss Prissy, and a female cat that mysteriously looked like her and was the Straw Thief…
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Writerly Things 4/6/2020: Writing & Confinement Traci Kenworth
Writerly Things 4/6/2020: Confinement and the Writer Traci Kenworth We spend so much time practicing our craft, when we look up days could’ve gone by. If we’re not interacting with a spouse or kids even longer. So why is the confinement to our homes bothering us so much? When We’re Forced to do Something. Put…
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Writers: Just Relax. It Will Change Your Life.
Originally posted on Meg Dowell Writes: You might not know it, but you generally do just about everything better when you’re relaxed. When I took voice lessons in college, my instructors spent more time telling me to relax (physically) than just about anything else. I clench and tighten my jaw a lot because of my…
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most needed ~ senryū
Originally posted on rivrvlogr: most needed sweet rain, cleanse me fall freely This senryū, a bit of a kōan, perhaps, is my poem for Day 3 of National/Global Poetry Writing Month, I’m not motivated by the prompt at napowrimo.net, but I’m determined to keep going. Image source: Honolulu Museum of Art – Rain in Miyajima,…
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No regrets today
Originally posted on Entertaining Stories: I had a reasonable opportunity to do some writing today, and squandered it away. This is my two day weekend, and Old What’s Her Face is off. That makes it kind of hard, but not impossible. I dabbled. I switched back to Lanternfish, but it probably didn’t amount to 300…
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Poetry Friday ~ Cinquain
Originally posted on The Writer Next Door | Vashti Q: Hi, everyone! Welcome to my blog. March is the first month to feature five Tuesdays. So, Colleen Chesebro from Colleen’s 2020 Weekly Poetry Challenge would like us to work with a specific syllabic poetry form. This week’s form is: The Cinquain & It’s Variations, (excluding…
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Pine Wood: A Reverse Cinquain
Originally posted on Padre's Ramblings: Pixabay This week Colleen’s syllabic poetry challenge is to write in the specific form of a Cinquain. “A Cinquain is a form of shape poetry and is always centered on the page. The required syllables needed for each line give it a unique shape.” The Reverse Cinquain form I have used…
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#Tanka Tuesday: Between seasons
Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: For Colleen’s challenge, a butterfly cinquain to go with a painting (by Franz Marc) I found yesterday. Red dog alone, watches no one pass on the lane, no door opens, no friendly voice calls, hand outstretched in a tender gesture. Days pass in boredom for useless hounds—chain rattles.