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2018-06-22 17:57
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Blockchain Poets
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Within a Globe of Fog – New Poetry
the barnyard and the red wheelbarrow – Grandma inside coveralls. backend first, black cows heave up swallowing cud the slick hay in our green manger – the hay rustles sibilant. Within a globe of fog miles
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The Ink Well
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Only the Sane Are Lonely
Nature abhors a vacuum. Who said that? He didn't know. And his phone was downstairs in the kitchen. His aunt's old room on the second floor looked … well, occupied. That's how it looked. But it couldn't
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Photography Lovers
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Discovering a wild spot
A couple weeks ago I stumbled across a wild spot on the Hoquiam River in my hometown of Hoquiam, Wash. It's a spot I had never seen before. I was rambling around the grounds of the abandoned mill in the
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Silver Bloggers
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Sweet Corn Charlie's – A Silver Blogger Chronicle
Caught in the memories. The prompts for Silver Bloggers can sometimes do that. This week the prompt invites us to write about our first job. My first job at the ripe age of 15 was for Sweet Corn Charlie's
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Freewriters
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The Plastic Monstrosity – Fiction for A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
It's strange being around people again. Jackson squatted down across from the sculpture in the center of the village. He watched the people ebb and flow like water around a rock. Some gathered on the benches
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Freewriters
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The Lucky Suit – Fiction for A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
Coming up the front walk in his silk suit the color of night, he felt like a fool. He didn't wear suits. He was a jeans and T-shirt kind of guy. A 'long walks on the beach' kind of guy, or not even the
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Silver Bloggers
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My most daring act? – A Silver Blogger Chronicle
The following is written for the Silver Bloggers Chronicles prompt 34: What is the most daring thing you did in your teens? I think I was a daring teenager, but then again, isn't that just part of being
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Freewriters
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Freewriters Community Daily Writing Prompt: honest lie
Honest Lies “I like your music.” Of course it wasn't really about the music. It was her voice, the sweet tones that matched her face, her long lashes that fluttered, the way she constantly looked down
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Photography Lovers
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A Gray Afternoon in Hoquiam
Last week I took a nice photowalk along the Grays Harbor bay in Hoquiam, Wash. It was an unseasonably warm afternoon, but overcast, as it typically is during the winter here on the Pacific Coast. Since
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Silver Bloggers
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My First Day of School – A Silver Blogger Chronicle
My first day of school, way back in 1981, was a quest for Charlie Brown. Wakarusa Elementary, in Wakarusa, Ind., placed a cardboard cutout of Charlie in front of the classroom to help kindergartners find
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Scholar and Scribe
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Toenails of a Dog – Microfiction
Its stitched eyes wouldn't close. It had to watch. Once the guys had finished, they left her. She lay twisted, on one hip but facedown, her green dress with the black polka dots rucked up, just another
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Silver Bloggers
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The Ideal Morning – A Silver Blogger Chronicle
Every morning is ideal in Hoquiam, Wash. (Except when it rains.) This morning started cold. The grass in the field outside my apartment building was stiff with frost, which gleamed in the sun. The birds
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Photography Lovers
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Adventure in Dog Marsh
I went searching for clouds. I was working on a short Liketu post (Clouds on the Bay), which would be a selection of 10 cloud photos taken along the Grays Harbor bay in Hoquiam, Wash. Most of the photos
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Freewriters
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The Basement – Fiction for A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
It wasn't a smile. More of a rictus. The basement greyed. The furnace leered. The hot water heater growled. Background noise: it faded when the sump pump screeched its curses. The doll he held for comfort
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Silver Bloggers
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My Favorite Person – A Silver Blogger Chronicle
I grew up on a farm in northern Indiana in the '80s and '90s. I suppose my grandmother was my favorite person. For the usual reasons: she spoiled her grandkids rotten, in all the traditional ways. There
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Freewriters
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Secret Girls – Fiction for A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
So, it's a girl, Alec thought. That made it worse. The pink smoke billowed impressively out of the firework. Shelly and Jim had only the one, which was less impressive, but he guessed it was enough for
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Freewriters
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Shoot it! – 5-minute freewrite and good news about Katt
A Golden Oldie – A 2019 rainbow over the soccer field behind Immanuel Baptist Church in Hoquiam, Wash. My Rainbow Girl Katherine pinned her rainbow in her hair. She sat across from me, the first woman
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Photography Lovers
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A Visit to Old Cannery Park
The Lions Club pavilion at Old Cannery Park in Hoquiam, Wash. The pavilion was constructed in 2021, the same year that what used to be just a pot-holed, gravel drive-off was landscaped and paved to become
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Threespeak
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Dabble and Chirp – American Wigeons
Last fall I had a photoshoot on the Grays Harbor bay in Hoquiam, Wash. This short clip will complement my Photography Lovers post of that shoot. It took me forever to identify these birds as American wigeons.
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Silver Bloggers
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Laughing at the wrong time – A Silver Blogger Chronicle
My first phone was cordless, still a novelty back in 1999. I bought it for my first apartment at Walmart for probably something like $20. It was an AT&T phone. Back then, four years out of high school,
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