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To My Children:

As long as the sun rises and sets As long as the Moon orbits the Earth Long after my name is forgotten, and your’s as well. My love will remain throughout eternity. I’m consumed with Federal Regulations, putting together a training guide for our Public Housing Authority’s Resident Advisory Board. I love my kids is about all my brain can come up with. Besides “The Public Housing is Required,…

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Creative Gardening in Limited Space for Elderly and Disabled Residents:

Remember, I’m in a wheelchair and I live in a Public Housing Development for the elderly and disabled. So I’m poor and crippled. I’m very proud of what I was capable of doing with limited space, adverse conditions, and numerous rules. I worked with new garden items, gifts, old items, and very old items. It’s not my Grandma’s quality of garden, but I’ve covered most of the same components. Chimes…

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Heat of Summer Upon Us

I grew up on a small farm. As children, when the heat of Summer was upon us and the mid-afternoon sun was too hot to find shade. We would move indoors to watch television. Dad was at work. Mom was asleep (she worked the 3-11 p.m. shift at the hospital). All four kids, ranging in age from four to ten years old, would lie on the wood floors of the living room. We put wet washcloths on our faces to…

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Embracing Strangers: A Serendipitous Encounter

A friend may be waiting behind a stranger’s face. Maya Angelou On June 12, 2025, I wrote a post called: Unspoken Words to a Stranger. Tonight, I worked up the courage to stop my stranger and tell her how much I admire her work ethic. Walking, or catching a ride with a co-worker, five days a week to and from work. We got to talking and found that we both like to write! Chastity writes books. I…

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Poetry's Reflection on Love: My Opinion

Poetry is the past that breaks out in our hearts.–Rainer Maria Rilke I’m not going to say that all poetry is the past breaking into our hearts. I’m a pretty dark poet, if a poet at all. For me, poetry is usually related to my past and pain. Love … I learned about love in the seventies and eighties. Most of it was not good advice. Khalil Gibran’s: If you love somebody, let them go, for if they…

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Someone to Watch Over Me

Someone to Watch Over Me — George Gershwin & Ira Gershwin; recorded by Linda Ronstadt in 1983 There’s a somebody I’m longing to seeI hope that he turns out to beSomeone who’ll watch over me I’m a little lamb who’s lost in the woodI know I could always be goodTo one who’ll watch over me Although he may not be the manSome girls think of as handsomeTo my heart he carries the key Won’t you tell…

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Letting Go of a Liar

If another woman steals your man, there’s no better revenge than letting her keep him You enter me with a lie upon your lips I pretend that I believe, so I don’t have to leave I let myself fall into the waves of desire Just for this night, I believe you. She doesn’t understand why you ignore her I see the fear in your eyes before you look away You rush me away, I don’t want to see the…

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Embracing the Unexpected: Life Lessons Learned

An unexpected person. An unexpected life event. An unplanned pregnancy. An unexpected physical illness or disability. We all live unexpected lives. Some get close to the life they planned and dreamed of having. Most of us are sidetracked by the unexpected. Our lives take a new course and direction. Some of those new directions are some of the best events in our lives. Some lead us to ruin or…

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Do Squirrels Eat Garlic?

I knew he was digging up my garlic, but I caught him eating it. Never heard of that before. This is war, and this squirrel has obviously been genetically modified. Well, it seems that one of the ways to detour squirrels from your garden is to use garlic. I’ve lost that battle. I scattered cayenne pepper over the garlic. Later that night it rained. Lost battle number two. I bought a solar owl…

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Trump to Win a Nobel Peace Prize?

I am speechless. Trump to Win a Nobel Peace Prize? Pakistan States Nomination https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/trump-to-win-a-nobel-peace-prize-pakistan-states-nomination/ar-AA1HajyA?ocid=socialshare Pakistan nominates Trump for Nobel Peace Prize, praising ‘stellar statesmanship’ https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/21/asia/pakistan-trump-nobel-peace-prize-nomination-intl and I wish I knew how to…

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Abused Children and Their Parents

You can shield them with your body and soul, trying to absorb that awful rain, but they’ll still move toward him. Without cease they’ll bend to his light.”― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible The first half of my life was spent trying to recapture the love my father had for me as a young girl. The second half has been spent moving from hate to anger. From anger to empathy. From empathy to…

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Why Writer's Block Doesn't Stop Me: A Personal Reflection

The scariest moment is always just before you start. — Stephen King I like that. Stephen King says the scariest moment is always just before he starts writing stories that touch our deepest fears. Then continues to linger in our minds the rest of our lives. Salem’s Lot still scares me the most. I love everything Stephen King wrote until the nineties. After 1991, the only books I loved were The…

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Dada's Game

She stands at the door waiting for her Dada to come home from work. As she does every day. Dada is always happy to see her. Dada plays with her and never says no. If she cries out in the night, it’s Dada who comes to sleep with her and keeps her safe. Dada plays a game with her when he comes in the screen door. He always asks her what she has in her hands. Sometimes she has a piece of bread or a…

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A Good Father

From the exact moment that he watched his only child enter this world, he tried his best to be a good father. Walking and talking with his two-month-old son in the vegetable garden to riding bikes when he was six. Taking his son to Church and watching him being baptized at the age of ten. WWI Museum or talking to his 18-year-old son about Jesus over pancakes at IHOP. He tried to be the good…

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Not Daddy's Girl Anymore

He’s trying to break in through my front door. Yelling for my mother to come out. He’s angry and drunk. My two young children are hiding in their bedroom. My heart is breaking to see my children so afraid. As I was once afraid. I open the front door. With all my strength, I swing open the screen door. He falls backward. A large bloody gash above his eye. His anger is replaced by shock…

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Understanding Absolute Monarchies and Trump's Authority

Absolute monarchies include Brunei, Eswatini, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Vatican City, and the individual emirates composing the United Arab Emirates. I don’t think Trump wants to be king. The only “kings” in the world who have more than ceremonial power are all Arab countries, it seems. Trump believes he should be treated like royalty. His family as well. Pomp and circumstance. Trump must have…

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Understanding the Consequences of Today's Political Climate

The government you elect is the government you deserve. – Thomas Jefferson Every day, I read the news to see who has fired the first nuclear weapon. Iran? Israel? Trump? Will I turn the news on in a year and find out we have been taken over completely by dictator Trump? The world has had enough and will invade the U.S and take it over to get rid of our dictator and his regime? Can the world…