R is for Resistance
500 Words On….Resistance. Resistance is futile. You WILL be assimilated. So goes the threat, warning, or merely informational greeting (depending on your viewpoint upon hearing it, I suppose) of the...
View ArticleS is for Self-Awareness
500 Words On….Self-Awareness. I wonder, sometimes, if there is a bottom – or, maybe, a core – to me, or anyone. That might be more apt. I keep reaching more deeply into myself, unraveling the mystery...
View ArticleT is for Toxic People
500 Words on … Toxic People. I was well grown before I ever heard the label “toxic people”. But, like most people, I have spent a lifetime dealing with them. What is a toxic person, anyway? Toxic...
View ArticleU is for Unschooling
500 Words on… Unschooling. Yes, unschoolers have friends - of many ages! You may or may not have heard of it. If you have, but only through mainstream news reporting, it is very likely you have a...
View ArticleV is for Vision
500 Words On….Vision. Nockatee was with him – and then, all at once, she was not. Her eyes were still turned toward the makeshift stage made of the White Hart‘s wide porch, but he could feel that her...
View ArticleW is for Wonder
500 Words On….Wonder. I know some people who never seem to wonder. They are absolutely certain about a great many things, so certain, in fact, that their minds have closed completely to the...
View ArticleX is for X’s and O’s
500 Words On….X’s and O’s. First kisses - but far from the last! There is a lot of kissing and hugging amongst our family. When I mentioned to Jeremiah recently that many boys his age didn’t want to...
View ArticleY is for Yelling
500 Words On…Yelling. Yelling was an everyday occurrence, within my family of origin. With four children and two parents who hadn’t learned how to contain or rise above their rage, there seemed to...
View ArticleZ is for Zoo
500 Words on……the Zoo. ~~Something tells me it’s all happenin’ at the zoo. I do believe it, I do believe it’s true...~~Paul Simon, “At the Zoo“ Air and Space Museum - first, quick visit, 45 minutes...
View ArticleWinterlude
February, 2011. Miah was 9, and Lise 6 and a half. I’ve had the literary equivalent of a long winter’s nap, during the early days of this ROW80 break. I needed it – my soul was raw with grieving,...
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