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Zowie! Professionally speaking, zowie isn’t a preferred word to summarize this twist in the FROG Blog book series. However, zowie is the only word I muster to describe a jaw-dropping-I-didn’t-expect-this-“variation”-and-now-how-on-earth-am-I-going-to-modify-my-plans? How-I-can-I-take-this-sharp-fork-in-the-road-and-not-have-it-feel-like-a-knife-in-my-spleen? I pause long enough to come up for air and breathe, Zowie. To honor my 500-word limit of each FROG Blog, I’ll divide this…
This week’s FROG Blog is dedicated to Marley Mae, our oldest granddaughter who turns nine tomorrow. The world gained a kind, creative, generous spirit February 22nd when she was born. Happy 9th Birthday Marley Mae! (The following is an excerpt from my first FROG Blog book, Learning on a Lily Pad. Available on Amazon and…
Wes Sims, author of Taste of Change, introduced me to poetry and encouraged me to try it. I’m an amateur in this writing style, but Wes invited me to a poetry critique group this Monday. If anyone in the Oak Ridge area would like to join us, Wes’s poetry group will be at Panera on…
I consider Zaccheus a biblical giant. In the book of Luke, he described Zaccheus as short. Luke’s description compared Zaccheus’s height to the crowd’s stature. Zaccheus’s can-do attitude wasn’t stunted when he climbed a tree to watch Jesus passing through town. Zaccheus was a short tax collector who didn’t allow crowd comparisons to stand in…
The following excerpt comes from the Tadpole edition of the 5 book FROG Blog series (Tadpole’s release date is for spring 2021, after “Unthawed from a Frozen Lily Pad” is finished). The Tadpole stories include essays of 300 words or less, a shorter version of the original FROG Blog. *(Subject’s name changed to avoid possible…
I started dabbling in poetry a few weeks ago. In Leo Buscaglia’s book Love, published in 1972, Buscaglia wrote that without close ties with humans, an infant can regress, developmentally lose consciousness, fall into idiocy and die. Well-loved hearts live well. A child may have a perfect physical environment, superb diet, and hospital-type hygiene but…
When my husband and I sold our house four years ago and chose to rent, we sorted our possessions. We are minimalists, so the sifting process was…well, minimal. (We would have a much “different” experience if we were packing Tig’s race shop though)! We moved to a nine-building complex and met a few neighbors. Like…
This FROG Blog comes from a writing contest I entered last year. The contest invited people to use the prompt, “In 200 words or less, put your New Year’s Resolution in writing.” I’ve used it to remind myself to respect processing times (especially when I try to leap ahead on the lily pad of life)….
The following is part of my most transparent assignments. As one of the five books in the FROG Blog series, I am compiling entries from my hand written journals. My purpose is to show people how I’m learning about life through lessons and blessin’s. Most of my talks with God are frequent and short. Writing…
A lady came for her weekly appointment at a nutritional center where I once worked. After I took her blood pressure and weight, she leaned into me, almost conspiratorially, and whispered, “I know why I gained weight. I’ll tell you when we get back to your office.” The lady talked about how her family unexpectedly…