2024
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1991, Based on a true story. My employer, experiencing an unanticipated economic crisis,offered me this option, lose my job ortake on two. Newly back from childbirthleave, of course I chose the latter, and sothere I was, babe in hand, steering a smallrental van, on the way to a trade show inChicago, where I’d be singly setting Read more
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there are times I cannot seem to stop myself from messing with what isn’t being said, so then I have to say out loud another truth Read more
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back then, in Spring as if newly budding leavessprouted from my branches; in Summer, happilybreezing and whispering about; then in Fallwearing unmuted colors to surprise the eyes.These days, when after my nap I awaken,fading hair frazzled and unruly, lookingmore like a Buckeye in Winter,hairless limps unwilfully gone wild,creaking against the ill winds,more often I’m mistakenfor Read more
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stating that the views I shared don’t coincide with theirs, Read more
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Someday, will I be lying on my deathbed, sorry for all this time I’ve wasted writing about doing nothing? Read more
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You found the tattered bird’s tenacity so amazing and uplifting you could not resist reaching out a hand to offer unannounced and unexpected a tender scrap of your admiration. The startled thing reacted by shrieking back at you, then flying away and landing on a nearby branch where it kept on screeching until you backed Read more
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Freeverse with some semi-rhymes If you find yourself frequently talking to others about somebody else, about something they’ve often or recently said or done, rolling your eyes as you describe how they overreact or are too sensitive, then go into detail as you tell of some incident that had happened between the two of you as you Read more
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40 is younger than you think it is when you’re 40. Read more
Words from Inside My Head 