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So, interesting experiment ( Read more... ) -
Crafting Mine
My New Year's resolution was to blog more. I totally intend to do that, but I've been busy for the first couple weeks of 2015 with a vacation hangover and digging out of the post-holiday chaos. And playing Minecraft ( Read more... ) -
Bad news rising
When my parents moved into their retirement community, they befriended two neighbors in particular: a tiny, sharp-talking woman named Gina (short for Regina) and a down-on-his-luck fellow named Gary.
Gina reminded my Dad of his sister Jean (also short for Regina) -- also tiny and sharp-tongued -- who died a few years back. Gina lived alone across ( Read more... ) -
a maybe resolution
From an email to aellwynde
I keep wanting to write rambly posts about what I am thinking and doing and how my kids are growing, but Life does not afford me that opportunity, at least not without sacrificing some of the other plates I am spinning. So I only facebook it, in the in-between moments, but as a consequence I am not seeing what ELSE is being ( Read more... ) -
Recluse
I think I've lost my faith in friendship.
I think people in general are beautiful and awful. I try to be respectful of everyone, empathic and kind when I can be, but one on one it's very hard for me to really, intimitely invest . I'm strange, sometimes awkward, smarter than your average bear and of divergent opinions and beliefs. I don't trust ( Read more... ) -
Cape Henlopen Poetry and Prose Writer's Retreat 2014
also posted at http://www.shannonconnorwinward.com/
I almost didn't make it. The GodKing hurt his back last week, the Kinglet is having a rough month at school, and, at four months, I'm still nursing my baby girl. To ditch them all for a sequestered, catered four-day weekend felt ( Read more... ) -
SEE?! SEE?!?
At Open House last night, the Kinglet's Gen Ed teacher told us the best story: apparently he got upset during their walking field trip/ nature walk because of some mix-up with his lunch. Because he had his aide with him, he was able to calm down and refocus without incident. One of the parent volunteers, who had known him from second grade, ( Read more... ) -
shelf space
I've officially decided to shelve my novel, COVENANT ( Read more... )
