santa | santa
Apr.08.2013
~I didn't write a poem today, but here is one from last month. :)
The Christmas tree still stands in March,
its base surrounded by empty boxes
waiting for something...a dot of glitter,
a shiny Santa...something.
Our headboard is leaning
against the living room wall.
I am neither inspired...
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Mar.29.2013
March 29
Yes, Virginia there is a solution
Suspended in the colloid of sobriety the overly large molecule, which is me, finds a fix I couldn’t imagine. I can get better, I do get better, I have a set of values to substitute into the old equations. I now live in a...
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Dec.26.2012
Photo: Weihnachtsmarkt (Christmas market) in Jena, Thuringia, Germany. From Wikipedia's "Christmas" page. Click on it for a bigger, more vivid picture. It's worth it.
Here's my Christmas song list that will be playing Christmas Eve and Christmas Day:
1....
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Dec.24.2012
It's 2:42 a.m. on Christmas morning and I finally feel I am done playing Santa. My husband stuck a few items he had bought for the children into their stockings, showed me his surprise present for me (a hardcover Madeline and the Cats of Rome, which recalled my own trip) then lay down and fell...
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Dec.14.2012
Wondering what to ask Santa for this year? Or uncertain what to buy for your dearest writer friends? I started compiling a visual shopping list on Pinterest to help friends who asked what they should buy for other friends and to assist friends who were stumped when their spouses asked...
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Dec.13.2012
A friend recounts a different version of the moment of truth.
They were seated at the dinner table when her daughter asked, "Mom, is Santa real?"
"What makes you think he isn't real?"
"Mom . . . we saw four Santas yesterday," she replied.
"Do you think he's real?"
"I don't know. But I...
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Dec.13.2012
Conversations with kids around the dinner table are always fun. When we were little, my younger brother always talked animatedly about his day at school. Mom couldn't pry two words from my middle brother.
After Tommy had finally exhausted his recital of his day's events and succumbed to...
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Dec.02.2012
Christmas is fast approaching, which means that somewhere in the North Pole, Santa and his elves are loading his great red sleigh. One toy you will not see amidst the Barbie dolls, Skylanders, and boxes of Lego are lawn darts – a.k.a., Jarts. Lawn darts were the scud missiles of my childhood. They...
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Jun.12.2012
Dr Christopher Otiko has has lived on three continents (Africa, Europe and North America,) and has now been a guest on “A Book and a Chat”.
While he has written a a semi autobiographical book “LOST IN THE USA” it is only now that he is finaly embarking on what I expect to be a long and successful...
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Dec.24.2011
Look at that, by jumpin' Jiminy!
Here comes Santa down the chiminy
With a sack across his shoulder
Every year he looks much older
I can't say I really blame him,
All those kids, he just can't tame 'em
Every year they get more greedy
No wonder that he looks so seedy
It really is a bit disturbin'...
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