“Liam. No!” I don't even have to look at him to know what he's doing. But I can't hear him so he must be doing something I don't agree with. A friend jokingly calls me “The Wolf Mother” and he's not wrong.

Goodnight Darlings People keep walking into the E.R. when I want to sleep. When you have the flu get in bed and sick it out. The hospital can't help you. Well, unless you're high risk with a compromised

I was born in a family of dog people. My parents started breeding dogs when I was about seven years old. Responsibly breeding dogs, let me specify that. Our dogs were tested for hereditary diseases and

Up until a few years ago, I did a lot of knitting and crochet. I'd spend hours watching TV to the rhythm of clicking needles. Not a day went by without yarn passing through my fingers. My co-workers and

This poem has been removed by the author. I wrote this poem off a gorgeous photo prompt by @quoll, for @damianjayclay and @nikisteem’s Kudos Short Poem Contest. I had a poem that would have fitted within

When I think of masochistic hobbies, I imagine things like martial arts. Granted, you learn to kick people’s asses. But you have to absorb a mandatory amount of kickings in the process. You spend money

I used to love haiku when I was sixteen. My sketching teacher would take us on little trips to the park and set us loose with pencil and a sketching pad. I often had a little notebook in my pocket, and

I love scrabble; medical words rock. None of my family want to play it with me. I know too many dictionary words. At work we often play creditable scrabble. That's fun too. Hilarious, even. Freudian My

Why Laura Bassi? When I first heard about the Women in Science challenge, I knew I had to participate. The first female scientist I thought of was Marie Curie. I work with ionising radiation on a daily

My Rainbow stories are meant to raise awareness regarding animal abuse and abandonment. A big thank you goes to @damianjayclay for helping me edit and revise these poems. They are a set of two tanka. Tanka

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they were written in a different time books and drafts set out by hand or rudimentary typewriters and people had less to distract them they had books and that's it we have kids hobbies netflix google by

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Now home for more house buying crap. I can't wait for all of this to slow down again by @TinyJazzyDahling Photo by Nathan Fertig on Unsplash @damianjayclay caught another bit of conversation and polished

drowsy bee on frosted garden too soon, little one wings too cold to find the hive come inside and live This is my entry to @dbooster's Haiku contest. This week's theme was "Out the Window." I

Oh, I just love coffee. I'll publically admit that I'm a caffeine junkie. I'm also addicted to the minimalism of Japanese poetry forms. I've tried my hand at haiku, haibun, and I've done multiple tanka.

@damianjayclay struck again. He caught me waxing lyrical over a subject dear to my heart in a conversation with @bex-dk and @technoman. The men in the room might have been a wee bit uncomfortable but they

It’s 10am right now and I’m finally sitting down to some writing of my own. I’ve been critiquing for at least three hours and I have one, maybe two hours of writing time of my own before I need to go to

That would translate as smurf pie I guess. It doesn't contain smurfs – it's not even blue. It's a pie crust spread with apricot jam. Whipped cream on top of that. Grated white chocolate on top of that.

Last night, when I saw @barbaarseevelien's post about getting a painting of hers printed on a dress, I couldn't resist reading it. Many of you know I do a bit of painting and sketching of my own when I