Make Something: Birthday
My birthday is May 1 … just two days away. I’m calling this year my halfway point. As I reach age forty-five, ninety seems a reasonable life expectancy—just a bit longer than my mom […]
Tag Archives: aging
Make Something: Letter to Me
Write a letter to yourself at another time in your life. This prompt makes me think of the Brad Paisley song, “Letter to Me.” I may not be as articulate in […]
Make Something: Flower
Today’s prompt: make something with flowers … the peony just past her prime wears her peplum pinched and puckered crepe-y petals pulling inward protect her precious center plumes this pretty […]
Make Something: Old to New
I worked about 14 hours straight today, looking at the screen of my Mac with just short breaks to grab lunch from the fridge, fill my teapot, and visit the […]
Stunned
Day 345 prompt: Faces (a haiku) stunning reflection too many hopes, dreams, wishes to be so wrinkled
In the Distance
Day 335 prompt: In the distance how ironic that as we get older with less and less time before us aging eyes squint and plead for arms to create space in […]
Reading at 40+
Day 291 prompt: Fuzzy (a haiku) fuzzy text grows crisp with elbows angled just so for middle-aged eyes
Oh Health
Day 277 prompt: Health must wear glasses in order to see taking supplements for vitamin D can’t jump or run, or else I pee can’t handle caffeine after three merely standing […]
Facade
Day 273 prompt: Architecture (a haiku) the architecture of your face just has more depth high school reunion
Visit with Grandma
Day 210 prompt: Textured thin, wrinkled skin puckers over bent knobby knuckles ropey veins like exposed tree roots converge at toothpick wrists all but lost in the lettuce leaf edge of […]
Life’s Seasons
Day 158 prompt: Autumn Spring green years of childhood sprout grow Summer hot spell of young adulthood bloom flourish Autumn colorful time of middle age harvest change Winter gray period of […]
Little Lady
Day 148 prompt: Itsy-Bitsy Teeny Weeny She wore delicate cotton dresses And played with tiny Tinkertoys Then began reading short words And locking her diary with a wee key She moved […]
A Monument to Me
Day 145 prompt: Statue Suppose an artist Moved by my greatness Chisels a large stone Into my likeness A passionate sculptor With a spirit for verity Might carve out my features […]
Oh, Suction!
Day 123 prompt: Stripes Joan and Kenny have new faces. Baby’s nose has fewer corners. Exiting the prairie must have inflated the redhead’s boobs, And thin Nicole’s lips have plumped and […]
Increasing Wealth
Day 25 prompt: wealth At age five A found penny Even a dull one Is a lucky fortune At nine Just one dollar Made of actual paper Is a […]
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