Five, Seven, and Five
Haiku, well, an English version of Haiku, and other tiny poems are what I do when I missed my chance at a photo. Didn’t have the camera, couldn’t get to it fast enough, couldn’t get the right angle, lost the…
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Published! “Skateboard Girl On the 5 Fulton”
“Skateboard Girl On the 5 Fulton“, my second book, is a collection of poems. It includes more Transit Posts, Mom Had Alzheimers poems, English Haiku and other tiny poems. Continued thanks to those of you who have provided moral support for my writing, to my blog followers, especially to Klee Gerard, faithful reader, trusted to always tell me the truth, and thank you to my publisher, Cyberwit.net!
“Celeste Blue” is available on the “Local Authors” shelf here in Ashland at Bloomsbury Books. Also from the local library, Jackson County Library System, at Amazon, and from my publisher’s online bookstore.
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Word Sketches Riding King County Metro
When I was still working, before our move to Ashland, Oregon, I relied on King County Metro Transit to take me to work and bring me home again. Often I rode my bike down the hill to the Kirkland Transit…
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Life Without A Soundtrack
I can’t imagine life without a soundtrack. Be it our own internal DJ running playlists in our head, or our earbuds emitting favorite tracks to accompany our runs, a radio station in the car, Air Play throughout our house condo…
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“Red In Tooth and Claw”: Connections, Friendship, and Grief
How did I get from a 1996 episode of a British television series to an elegy by Alfred, Lord Tennyson for Arthur Henry Hallam, British poet (1 February 1811 – 15 September 1833)? The connection? These five words: “red in…
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Birds, Words, Weeds, and Zen
Work on my Karesansui (Japanese Rock Garden, 枯山水) has resumed. I could list the reasons it was on hold for so long, but why? It seems counter to the whole idea of creating, tending, and enjoying such a garden. Karesansui…
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More Great Submarine Movies
While writing “Alaaarm!” “Dive! Dive! Dive!”, a recent post sharing some of my favorite submarine movies, the list continued to grow. Here are some more noteworthy submarine movies worth watching. British film Morning Departure (1950) directed by Roy Ward Baker,…
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“Alaaarm!” “Dive! Dive! Dive!”
“Alaaarm! Alaaarm!” A German submariner secures the upper hatch and a U-boat begins a crash dive. “Dive! Dive! Dive!” A US submariner secures the upper hatch and his submarine begins a crash dive. Or maybe there is silence, deep blue…
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‘Ticia, Rebecca, and Me
I was on the water rower, singing along to a Van Morrison song on Pandora when I remembered a night in ‘69 or ‘70, fall or winter. It was during the school year. Some friends of mine and I had…
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Props of Courage
I write because I must, because I love it, because I’ve wanted to since the time I was a kid, barely able to read. I’ve set aside the dream of doing it for years. Too many years. Now that I…
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Black Friday Boogie
“step right up step right up step right upeveryone’s a winner bargains galorethat’s right you too can be the proud ownerof the quality goes in before the name goes onone-tenth of a dollar one-tenth of a dollar, we got service…
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