Baby Girl for 3WW

Published August 1, 2012 by Diana

3WW : emotion, falter, touch

Baby Girl

She’ll touch your heart

A count coup

Elicit an emotion you can’t name

Your words falter

Why write?

Published July 26, 2012 by Diana

I would never post anything my kids shouldn’t read. In fact, my writer’s soul wants them to read my posts. I want to share my words with them like I did every day when they were little. My daughters live close by and we talk often on the phone. But my blog posts, especially the stories about them, are special memories set to the speed of light. Yeah, kind of mystical and magical…

“Felda, did you read my blog today?”

She chortles. “I didn’t have time today, sorry.”

“Audra, what did you think of my post today?”

“I don’t know. I didn’t read it. Yet. I’ll read it later. I promise.”

“Heidi, did you like my post?”

“What post?”

I shrug off their indifference and stop asking. It doesn’t matter whether they read it or not, the story is alive on the web. I’ve not used their real names, but they’ll recognize themselves nonetheless. And they will read those posts eventually….

Today, my phone rings.

“Mom, I called to tell you I laughed when I read your blog story.”

How cool is that! I get to make them laugh and they call me to let me know.

I hope everyone has found a way to keep those family stories alive.

Light as a Feather

Published July 23, 2012 by Diana

Just when I think I’m a goose feather in the wind, I wake up and discover that I’ve become the down in someone’s pillow. I have no idea how this happens, but somehow my writing drifts in the wind and lands on somebody’s head. Luckily, it’s light as a feather.

Thanks to Vikki for nominating me for the Illuminating Blogger Award. I enjoy visiting her blog and her perspective on writing.

The rules for acceptance are:

1. Visit and thank the blogger who nominated you

2. Acknowledge that blogger on your blog and link back

3. Share a random thing about yourself

4. Select five or more nominees and notify them on their blogs.

Copy and paste the award on your blog somewhere.

Here’s my random thing: Once I taught mathematics to students in a psychiatric hospital.

Please visit these worthy blogs for inspiration and enlightenment:

photo by kat@1bydesign.com

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It Made My Day (infinitesadnessorhope.wordpress.com)
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Sky King and One Lovely Blog

Published July 17, 2012 by Diana

I was just nominated for the One Lovely Blog award. I never know what to think when this happens. This time, I’ll play by the rules. The rules are to:

1) thank the blogger who nominated you with a link to the site.

2) write seven things about yourself that other bloggers don’t know

3) nominate fifteen other deserving blogs

Thanks to i.arxiv for the nomination! Check it out for insightful and eclectic writing.

Seven trivial, random, and undisclosed things about me:

Four years ago the US Army Corp of Engineers searched my property for Unexploded Ordinances (UXO) from WWII. But they missed one. I found it in my garden this spring. So, tell me, what were they really after?
I’m a conspiracy theorist.
My husband and I make salsa with our own tomatoes. We name each batch because it takes more time to make salsa than it does to make children (and we gave them names). It’s only fair.
I think Vesuvius is a lovely name for anything hot.
I’m writing a novel about an evil rabbit and MK-ULTRA.
I drink scotch.
I wonder if Sky King became a victim of his own crop dusting. What do you think?

And the nominees are: (Could somebody please tell me how to link better)

http://cahusted.wordpress.com

http://alwaysthewritetime.wordpress.com

http://ldalford.wordpress.com

http://helpfromcyranette.wordpress.com

http://grumpytyke.com/

http://perlesink.wordpress.com

http://theboywithahat.wordpress.com

http://susanwritesprecise.com/

http://veganchopnchat.com/

http://ashleyjillian.com

http://robincoyle.wordpress.com/