The Park in Winter
Our local park is always teeming with people walking their dogs, biking, playing sports, swinging. This is the only time we’ve EVER had it to ourselves. It felt very peaceful and sleepy.
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National Readathon Day
So evidently Saturday, Jan 24, is National Readathon Day! Brilliant. So I can do what I would be doing anyway, only smile smugly at people and feel entirely justified when I hold up a finger and say, “I’ll get to that after I finish this chapter.” I tried that technique as a kid. Dinner? After this … Continue reading
Library Card Rumors
In which I infiltrate the library’s reciprocal benefits program and pass the inspection of Agent Alpha – all to check out a book. Continue reading
Do You Want to Build A ___________________?
I personally love the movie Frozen. Even if you hate it, you probably started singing the moment you saw this blog title. It’s one of the most recognizable motifs in recent musical movie history. We just can’t Let It Go. I work with young’uns for a living. They consist of a typical range of lovers … Continue reading
MLKJD
“If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, ‘Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job … Continue reading
Grocery Store Etiquette
A poem about those little bars that separate orders on the conveyor belt at the checkout. Would Miss Manners approve?
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On Other Stupid Things to Laugh At – Checkout Lanes
I confess I am amused by stupid little things. Eye exams. Grocery store lines. Before a recent ice storm, I went to Kroger. It was packed, as people prepared for another Snowmagedon. Carts in lines 8 deep, all lanes open. Like Christmas Eve, but with no expectations of anything more exciting to open the next … Continue reading
Cheating on the Eye Exam
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Writer’s Resolutions: The 6-Word Diet Plan
I usually forego New Year’s resolutions, but in 2015, I’ve decided to go on a writer’s diet. That doesn’t mean cutting calories, but words. I have always struggled to contain my verbosity on paper. In the last month, I have cut 11,000 words of prose and 100 lines of poetry out of various projects, and … Continue reading
Book Review: Promised
Caraugh M. O’Brien Taken as a whole, I’m not sure what genre to assign to O’Brien’s series. Our main characters escape from one dystopian society to another, and then try to fix all the problems by joining the two together. Whether or not it works I will not spoil. But there are enough elements in … Continue reading
Carnival World
I’m happy to show off a painting the talented Alys Caviness-Gober made for my poem, Carnival World. Continue reading
Sarah E. Morin 