Sharing My World on 1-20-2020 QUESTIONS: Where do you get your news? I have a subscription to the Washington Post. I also read newsletters from the L.A. Times, Newsweek, Huff. And I read The New Yorker and Garry sends me… Read More ›
Month: January 2020
LOVING AND HATING THE PHONE WHILE WISHING IT WORKED BETTER – Marilyn Armstrong
Since everyone’s into talking about hating phones, I figured I’d throw my oar in the water too. I loved the phone right through my teenage years. I and my girlfriends would chat the night away, even though we lived two… Read More ›
LONG DISTANCE PARENTING – BY ELLIN CURLEY
I’ve had a long-distance friendship with Christine, who lives in London, for close to 50 years. I learned how to stay in close touch before texting and emails and Skype existed and when long-distance phone calls cost a fortune. I… Read More ›
FIRE AND ICE By ROBERT FROST
I have always loved this poem. It is one of the few I have committed to memory. Today, I think it has acquired new and fearsome levels of meaning, many more than it had when I first read it, many… Read More ›
STOPPING BY THE WOODS ON A SNOWY NIGHT – ROBERT FROST
Robert Frost, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” from The Poetry of Robert Frost, edited by Edward Connery Lathem. Copyright 1923, © 1969 by Henry Holt and Company, Inc., renewed 1951, by Robert Frost. Reprinted with the permission of Henry Holt… Read More ›
HELLO, WE’RE HERE! – Rich Paschall
Now What? by Rich Paschall What do you do when friends come to visit? Do you plan a nice dinner? Do you stay in and cook or do you go out? Do you plan some activities or do you go… Read More ›
WINTER SCENES – Marilyn Armstrong
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Winter Scenes It certainly is winter here and today, it was actually cold. The earlier parts of the month were springlike, sometimes downright summery. Today, cold. Tomorrow? Snow? Sleet? Rain? Cold? Warm? All of the preceding? NOW… Read More ›
THE FIRES OF HELL ON EARTH – Marilyn Armstrong
Fandango’s Provocative Question #56 This week’s question is taken from Melanie’s “Share Your World” for the week. And my answer is an expansion of what I wrote on that post. The world is on fire and we will all burn. No… Read More ›
Once by Ice and Once by Fire – Reblog – Judy Dykstra-Brown
Originally posted on lifelessons – a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown:
Once by Ice and Once by Fire Once by ice and now by fire, erasing her mistakes, Mother Earth must wonder how many times it takes to finally get the…
WOULD YOU PLEASE ANSWER THAT PHONE? – BY ELLIN CURLEY
The world can be divided in many ways – Republicans vs. Democrats, religious people vs. non religious people, cat people vs. dog people. Here’s another way – people who love the phone vs. people who hate it. I love talking… Read More ›
DOWNTOWN SEALED LIGHT # 17 – Marilyn Armstrong
Downtown Sealed Light
WORK! – Marilyn Armstrong
A Photo a Week: Work
