Masks

Masks

It’s all about masks these days.  Even as I write this, there are yards of fabric waiting to be cut and sewn.  It seems the least I can do while I sit under the Shelter at Home order. They are multiplying like rabbits.  Masks are in every store, drive-through or...
The Woman’s Plight

The Woman’s Plight

Author’s Note: This is an example of Catena Rondo poetry, and the rules are as follows: The rhyming pattern must be abba. The first and last lines of each verse must be the same. The first line of the second verse must be the second line of the first verse, and so on....
This is the Place (Book Spine Poetry)

This is the Place (Book Spine Poetry)

Author’s Note:This is an example of Book Spine Poetry Choose 10 random books from your shelves.Arrange the titles (Spines) until they form a free verse poem.If a title just won’t work, choose a different book. This is the placeWhere your heart breaks in piecesThe...
Chance Encounter ~ The Worth of a Day

Chance Encounter ~ The Worth of a Day

How do you measure the worth of a day when things don’t go as planned?  Mine started off with a missed, then rescheduled and then delayed flight that caused another missed connection. And that caused an unplanned overnight stay at the halfway mark of my trip.  It cost...
Chance Encounter – Teacher Connection

Chance Encounter – Teacher Connection

My husband wanted a “soda for the roada” before we made the trek from Las Vegas back to Bakersfield. While he went to get his Coke, I waited in the car.  But when the little yipping dog hopped from the van next to us, I got out to chat with the family. “That’s a might...