Fandango’s Provocative Question #122 I stand with Edith Piaf. I regret nothing except, perhaps, things I might have done, but didn’t. I find myself with little to regret. I wish we’d put more money away, but I didn’t have anything to… Read More ›
Word Prompt
BRUTAL HONESTY AND THE KINDNESS OF A LOVING LIE
There is a time for honesty and a time for kind, warm-hearted honest lying. For example, here are questions that absolutely require a “yes” as the answer, no matter what think: “Do these jeans make me look fat?” If you… Read More ›
THE TOWER STAIRS BY DARK OF NIGHT
Fandango’s Provocative Question #86: DREAMS BY NIGHT This week, Fandango would like to know what was the weirdest dream we can remember and what do we think might have triggered it? This was a real dream. I remember it because… Read More ›
MY BEST-EVER JOB
Fandango’s Dog Days of August #30: MY BEST JOB EVER I had been looking for a job that would let me flex my hours so Garry and I could spend time together. It was difficult. He worked terribly long hours, gone… Read More ›
A NEW EDITOR AND A LOT OF QUESTIONS ABOUT US AND OUR TECHNOLOGY
Fandango’s Provocative Question #83: Who’s controlling what? One of the big issues with WordPress’s decision to create a kind of block format that is very unappealing to most of us who aren’t here to make money but joined to show… Read More ›
I HATE THE NATION WE HAVE BECOME
Fandango’s Dog Days of August #19: HATE I hate the country we have become. I hate what 45 has done to us. I hate this world that is not even a shadow of the America in which I grew up… Read More ›
THE DOG DAYS OF MUSIC
Fandango’s Dog Days of August #17 I wrote this just the other day, so here it is again. There was a time in my life when I was “all music all the time.” I completed a music major in college (piano)… Read More ›
FAVORITE TV SHOW? IT’S A TIE.
Fandango’s Dog Days of August #16 Fandango would like to know what my favorite TV show is and I have to say, it’s a tie. First of all, we’ve watched “The West Wing” at least half a dozen times during the… Read More ›
LOST LOVE?
Fandango’s Dog Days of August #4 I think I’m married to my lost love. So I guess he isn’t lost. Garry was never lost. He was just too busy. I had to wait until his career was less important than his… Read More ›
NARY A RIPPLE
RDP Sunday–RIPPLES “With nary a ripple” signals ultimate peace. No waves, no white water. Just the smooth glassiness of water and it’s reflection of sky, clouds, and the trees along the bank. And maybe the reflection of the geese or… Read More ›
LIVING IN THE WILDERNESS? – Marilyn Armstrong
RDP SATURDAY: WILDERNESS The area in which we live is definitely rural, but I never considered it wilderness until suddenly, after 20 years of receiving packages from every known delivery service, we can’t be found. We have disappeared. We get… Read More ›
LOUDER THAN WORDS – Marilyn Armstrong
Fandango’s February Expressions #23 Oh let us speak first of love. When a man says he loves you, that’s nice. When a man shows you he loves you, that matters. Men, after they get over the huge masculine hurdle of saying… Read More ›
OUT MY BACK DOOR – Marilyn Armstrong
Ragtag Daily Prompt: Out My Backdoor I look out my backdoor a lot. It’s a small deck leading to a rather small lawned area that when we were younger and more socially active, was the scene of many summertime barbecues,… Read More ›
HUMAN ACHIEVEMENT? – Marilyn Armstrong
Fandango’s Provocative Question #44 From Fandango: “You’re probably familiar with this quote from philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist, George Santayana, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.“ In a 1948 speech to the House of Commons, Winston… Read More ›
CENSORSHIP AND THE LIFE WE LIVE – Marilyn Armstrong
Fandango’s Provocative Question #42 It’s a good question for everyone to ponder these days. There has always been censorship of some kind in every country as long as humans have been “civilized.” Its definition — or at last one of its… Read More ›
THE EARLY GOLD OF AUTUMN – Marilyn Armstrong
The leaves have definitely begun to change! The aspens are bright yellow and there are edges of red on the maples. There is a hint of gold on al the leaves as if some painter was doing a watercolor and… Read More ›
EVENTUALLY MAKES A LONG LIST – Marilyn Armstrong
RDP SATURDAY : Eventually Be there anyone amongst us who doth not make lists. Not all my lists are written, mind you. Some are mental. I have a wedding coming up. It’s a very big piece of my “eventually” list and… Read More ›
BLASPHEMY! – Marilyn Armstrong
FOWC with Fandango — Blasphemy Yesterday, or really the day before, I discovered yet one more “website” set somewhere in Asia is reusing a ton of WordPress and other copyrighted material on his/her/their website. I’ve seen these sites before. I figure… Read More ›
LACKING FINESSE – Marilyn Armstrong
RDP Tuesday – FINESSE It must be my age. I no longer have any finesse at all. I sometimes get what I want, but it’s more bludgeon than finesse. I seem to have lost my charm especially in dealing with… Read More ›
WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG? – Marilyn Armstrong
Mid-Week Word Prompt – Haywire We have a guaranteed way of making everything go haywire. All you have to do is say the following words: I absolutely guarantee should you speak these words prior to any planned event … the… Read More ›
SERENDIPITY: SEEKING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH 