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December Photo-A-Day Challenge Post #1
1: 8 o’clock (a.m.) I woke up to an oatmeal Saturday. Looking out the window and viewing a sky full of limp gray inspired me to brew up a bowl of apples and cinnamon oatmeal. The creamy warmth...
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December Photo-A-Day Post #2
#2. Peace and #5. Looking Up I often sleep with my window open a smidgen and the other night the wind swished through the trees. The gentle cadence soothed me like God was whispering me a lullaby all...
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December Photo-A-Day Post #3
Day #4: black and white Black or white has all kinds of possibilities: penguins, chocolate chips dribbled on vanilla frozen yogurt, and of course, the printed page. I love to read. I’m not quite...
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December Photo A Day: Post #4
#8. Someone You Love Not a someone, but quite personable: Twinkles. Last night I distinctly heard a ratchety-ratchety sound, as if Twinkles the guinea pig was foraging in his grain box for a snack. He...
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December Photo A Day: Post #5
Day #9, #11, #12, #13, #14, #15: a photo story Friday night we decided to do our holiday shopping in order to avoid the Saturday crowds. It’s looking a lot like Christmas and I have the photos to...
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December Photo A Day: Post #6
Day 16: Something You Made This is lunch today. It’s kind of Christmasy with its cream cheese, pesto, and sundried tomotoes layers. I’m trying to eat a bit better than usual this holiday season....
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December Photo A Day: Post #7
Day 18 and 19: Makes You Feel Merry/Something Beginning with “S” I do feel ever so merry once I finally decide to drag out our Christmas CDs and listen to all those seasonal songs. I don’t believe...
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December Photo A Day: Post #8
Day 20: Weather Bad news: unexpected snow storm dropped six inches overnight Good news: SNOW DAY!!! NO SCHOOL!!! Day 21: Tree(s) See above photo to understand why I got on my laptop to look up palm...
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December Photo A Day: Post #9
Day 24: Tradition A couple of years ago we began exchanging goodies and good cheer with a couple of our neighbors. Our one neighbor, an older bachelor who is a local musician, makes these incredible...
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The Emily Project:
Hmm. Old ways do die hard. I thought I had kicked the procrastination habit by actually completing NaNoWriMo. Unfortunately, this new found euphoria of meeting deadlines did not carry over into the...
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The Emily Project: Part One/Life–Poem IX (The Heart Asks Pleasure First)
Emily Dickinson Museum, Amherst, Massachusetts – side view of Emily Dickinson’s house. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The Emily Project is my attempt to better understand The Complete Poems of Emily...
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The Emily Project: Part One/Life–X (A Precious, Mouldering Pleasure)
Sophocles. Cast (Photo credit: Wikipedia) X. A precious, mouldering pleasure ‘t is To meet an antique book, In just the dress his century wore; A privilege, I think, His venerable hand to take, And...
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The Emily Project: Part One/Life–XI (Much Madness)
It’s… Madness Too (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Edith offered only a check on this one, which means I am stopping without the help of her usual notes. XI Much madness is divinest sense To a...
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The Emily Project: Part One/Life: XII (I Asked No Other Thing)
Deutsch: Thomas Wentworth Higginson (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Edith has deemed this one an *. Hmmm… X I asked no other thing, No other was denied. I offered Being for it; The mighty merchant...
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The Emily Project: Part One/Life–XIII (The Soul Selects Her Own Society)
Image: Emily dickinson journal.gif (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The soul selects her own society, Then shuts the door; On her divine majority Obtrude no more. Unmoved, she notes the chariot’s pausing At...
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Pardon Me, Emily–Jane’s Calling
My commitment to reading great literature (in the form of a challenge to myself) this year began with the Emily Project, my slow acquaintance with Emily Dickinson. I am now increasing my challenge...
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The Emily Project: Part One/Life–XIV (Some things that fly)
Bombus polaris, a polar bumble bee (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Flying. I give thoughts to flying. How I would like to fly and how I am attracted to those things that can fly. Big fat black bumblebeese...
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Jane Calling: Some Sensibility
Title page from the first edition of Jane Austen’s novel Sense and Sensibility (Photo credit: Wikipedia) With finals finally over I actually have a FREE weekend with Monday off as well. I’m dedicating...
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Jane Calling: Darcy and Liz Senselessly in Love
Today is the 200th anniversary of Pride and Prejudice, which is why I am writing about Sense and Sensibility. Everyone will be extolling their la-de-dahs about P&P, so I’m writing about the...
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Jane Calling: Some Adaptations Make No Sense (or Sensibility)
English: Sense and Sensibility, (Jane Austen novel) ch 29 : Elinor read with great indignation Willoughby’s letter Français : Sense and Sensibility, (Jane Austen) Ch. 29 (illustration N° 14) Elinor...
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