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Final Christmas Song, Poetry Mash-up: Kindness
I hope that like me you have been having such a lovely Christmas, full of friends and people who love you, so that you’ve been unable to spend much time online. If not, I wish you peace, my friend, and a better year ahead. Lord knows that 2013 was awful in so many ways, and…
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Christmas Song, Poetry Mash-up #3, Said the Night Wind
There’s a guy at work who writes a “Christmas Poem” every year, and prints it on pretty paper to give to everyone. It’s a nice sentiment, and I think it comes from the heart. Lots of stuff about beautiful memories of days gone by, even those we’ve lost over the years, and wishes of hope…
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Give a book for Christmas! Talking Books does the perfect present…
Originally posted on No more wriggling out of writing ……: Well we are nearly there – just a week left to do your Christmas shopping and find the gift that will really mean something to the recipient, offering pleasure that will last well after the 25th December. Okay – there may be a few electrical…
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Christmas Song, Poetry Mash-up #1, Funky Monks
Last year around this time I featured some Random Favorite Christmas Songs, and so this season I thought we’d do a slight twist on that idea, a Christmas Song and Poetry Mash-up. It fits the theme of this place better to bring poetry into it, and songs and poems are sort of sister arts anyway.…
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Local News from Someplace Else, Two Readings and a Review
It is always snowing or raining someplace like here while our own windows lie their pretend sunshine on a street somewhat like yours. Whom can we trust when a smiling anchor prophesies the utmost danger around the corner –From the title poem of Local News from Someplace Else, by Marjorie Maddox Please don’t think I’m exaggerating…
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“Meteorology,” by Marjorie Maddox
It was a good Sunday here, aside from a few cold symptoms, slow and lazy, and ideal for reading and pondering. I hope yours was everything you’d hoped for, and that your Monday will surprise you by being better than you expect. I had promised you, a review of the new book Local News from…
