Allene Newberg Bilodeau
Born NYC, reared in Bloomington, IN, my heart's of two cities. Went to IU as mom w/ 2 boys. Married a good man w/encyclopedic brain (very handy!). Became homebirth educator and apprentice midwife. Had 3 more kids, ran a daycare, never stopped writing!
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Attended IU -early 70's. Continuing classes, workshops, IU Writers' Con, writing groups. Focus on poetry, short stories, kids' stories and ungodly long letters! Was homebirth educator in VA & apprentice midwife in IN 1980's. Life is education!Interests
Writing stories, poetry, kids' stories that empower or tickle; trees, photog, movies, homebirth, playing dress-up, dance, NYC, disability-awareness, singing, world cultures, deep connections with beings (human and non), things that knock me off my seat laughing!Motto
If you ask me what I came to do, I came to live out loud.Affiliations
Society for Chidren's Bookwriters and Illustrators, Bloomington Women's Writing Center, AC
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Lindy Lou Got Married!Amazing TRUE story of 2 kids from back in the 1950's who reconnected & re-awakened love after 50 yrs apart. Funny & touching '..."Ballad of Scottie & Kitzi' to honor AC's Linda Louise Johnson who married her sweetheart July 16, 2011! -
In Memory of MomMy mother's voice silenced 12/1/10 "She's unraveling like a spool of thread, a bolt of silk, spilling her stories in my ear. They flow in detailed intricate patterns, weaving their way through time -- I listen, I laugh w/ her, I wish I knew her then..." -
EASY CORN CASSEROLE RECIPEA simple and inexpensive favorite family recipe, corn casserole. Goes great with Holiday dinners, right up there with the classic green bean casserole! -
Funny Quotes by Toddlers We've KnownWith 5 kids plus my day care home, they had to learn fast to get a word in edgewise! I'm not claiming my darlings uttered brilliant prose, but some of these funny toddler quotes became part of our permanent lexicon! -
Simple ThanksSimple poem in a simple expression of gratitude at this season of Thanksgiving -
Coping with Dementia Part 4: "We're All Mad Here"Final in a 4-part series on how dementia, like a thief in the night, stole bits of my mother-in-law's mind. Our journey from onset (1), retirement community (2), living w/ us (3), until, in this conclusion, all our options were stolen but a nursing home. -
A Pink Christmas Miracle"I was six years old that Christmas, and all things were still possible -- . There, wrapped in white tissue paper, lay the symbol of my life's dream." Memory of a Xmas when I not only believed in Santa, but Santa proved he believed in me. -
HURRAAAAGH for the PUMPKIN PIE!You know Over the River & Through the Woods? The line "Hurrah for the pumpkin pie" was practically my theme song. Thanksgiving at Grandma's when I was 7 or 8, I had a bottomless craving for pumpkin pie. And I lived to tell the tale of how I cured it! -
Coping with Dementia Part 3: Down the Rabbit HolePart 3 of a 4-part series on Coping with Dementia within our family. Part 1 is abt onset signs. Pt 2 was her deterioration at a retirement community. Pt 3 is the year my mother-in-law lived w/us. Down the Rabbit Hole we all went! -
Healthy Meatloaf Burgers: No-Bake, Easy-to-MakeCraving the comfort of a hot healthy meatloaf, but too busy or hungry to wait? Down-size! Based on my strangely erotic Healthy Meatloaf Recipe: Meatloaf, Shmeatloaf! Faster, but still healthy -- and mmmmm, soooo satisfying! -
10 Fun Things to Do in a Droughtdrought, drought humor, funny things about a drought, lack of rain, how drought affects autumn colors -
Drought and Release: 2 HaikuOne dry, one wet: 2 little drought-inspired haiku -
Autumn Called Off for Lack of RainAs the summer drought goes on, I watch birdbaths sit dry, grass recede from dusty dirt mounds, limp leaves turn brown and miss their time of glory. It isn't a far stretch to imagine what if the rain didn't come & to feel our vulnerability to nature. -
Bloomington's 4th St. Festival of the Arts & Crafts Photo Tour Sept '09Come feast your senses at this year's festival! For details go to: http://sites.google.com/site/4thstreetfestival/ And check my fun informative article: http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/5722398/fabulous_4th_st_festival_of_the_arts.html?cat=8 -
FABULOUS 4TH ST. FESTIVAL of the ARTS & CRAFTSOverview of Bloomington's lively Fourth Street Festival of the Arts & Crafts that turns downtown East 4th Street into a 2-day explosion of color, music & artistic creativity every Labor Day. -
BIRTHDAY REFLECTIONS: My Life's "Porpoise"Re-entering AC world, after 5 month sabbatical, by way of few quick & easy thoughts on the "porpoise" of my life. They popped up like a little b'day surprise on cue Aug. 2nd.
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Ten Surefire Ways to Embarrass Your KidsAfter enduring the public embarrassments that 5 kids can bring on a parent, I've compiled a list of surefire ways to turn the tables and embarrass your kids. Based on decades of experience & pure evil fantasy. Not that I'm recommending this. Mwaahaahaa!
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St. Patrick's Day Limerick for AC ContestLeprechaun limerick for AC contest
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Super Bowl, Shmuper Bowl... Who Needs Basketball, Anyhow?"I'm not a boring person... really! But I HATE watching sporting events. I'd rather watch gall wasps mate through the entire interminable game than sit through the Super Bowl!" Ballophobic woman in IN relates why she's NOT excited to see the Colts play!
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AC Women Gone Wild: The Bold, the Bald and the BawdyWanna eavesdrop on 3 wild AC women sharing lunch, laughter & revealing secrets? Follow me to an Indy Olive Garden for a fun date w/ Linda L. Johnson & Theresa Wiza. It may alter your image of "older women"! Then let's peek into Linda's Tinyville condo!
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A Shocking Valentine's Day SurpriseA romantic comedy of errors in verse for Valentine's Day. Based on actual unlikely events w/ my bright-but-clueless spouse 20 years ago!
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MARIA ROTH'S SON: 'BOUT TIME YOU MET HER SPECTACULAR ZACH!"Out there in cold Kansas with blizzards & snow/ lives a boy name of Zach you just might like to know./ You've all met Maria, his mother; what's more/you've heard of his sister named Audrey; she's 4." Revealing rhyme abt a cool big brother, Zach Roth-7!
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Turkey Haiku for AC ContestGuilt, angst, and pure animal hunger battle it out in 17 syllables.
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Coping with Dementia Part 2: A Thief in the NightBy Part 2 of 4, big pieces of my mother-in-law's "mental furniture" went missing. But until she moved to a nice retirement community, we didn't see how bad her deterioration was. Lenore's lifetime of independence was being pilfered. We faced hard choices.
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A Goodbye Kiss to Morag's Sweet TushMorag Mortimer-Smythe has had his ass swiped! The lovely languorous lady of the bounteous bottom has been banned from AC! As humorist & photographer extraordinaire, what could our sardonic Englishman do for an avatar? These roses smell of sweet revenge!
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Autumn Sadness: When More Than Leaves Were Lost"Iridescent bouquets of autumn trees / lit up the landscape where / we left you with the earth that day." Five years, minus a day, after the loss of our oldest son, this poem emerged on Nov. 6, 2005. In memory of James Michael 1/25/1966-11/7/2000.
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Who's a Sexy Mama and Why Do We Care?We've sure been having a lot of sex on AC lately! It's been playful fun for most. Some good content producers get highlighted & double entendres fly. But can "sexy" labels get hurtful? Some deeper thoughts here dressed up in my dirty girl humor!
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Whose American Dream?"The American Dream" became a coined term to idealize nostalgia & push cars, homes, spending, w/o regard for struggling people or the planet. Is family & excess part of the package & global problem? It wasn't originally. We can alter what it's become.
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Coping with Dementia Part 1: A Thief in the NightDementia is a thief that slips into your home again and again, stealing things so small you don't even notice at first. Part 1 of this 4-part series on Coping w/ Dementia, begins the story of how my mother-in-law's insipient changes came to rob us all.
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Love Poem to a Season: Autumn EcstasyPoem of adoring devotion to autumn & "the raining celebration of the trees before the winter/ giving up the weight of beauty and glory of attention". Begun in '91, as an up-tempo poem skipping along like a breathless young girl chasing her lover.
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Healthy Meatloaf Recipe IdeasMeatloaf, shmeatloaf. What's to get excited about? "Plop in the ketchup. Now you really feel the pleasure of squishy meat oozing between your fingers. That's it, squeeeeeeze, mush it, turn it, roll it, slap it, make that meat your bitch!" Having fun yet?
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Dance on a Wire"I followed your lead to the age-hewn voice/ of a man who spoke to the depths/ of my twenty-something sadness." Following a link from a friend, I found myself immersed in Leonard Cohen's classic, "Bird on a Wire" (Feb '09). This poem was my flight.
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The Swollen Eye of MickeysBigMouth: An Earnest Quest for TruthPoor MickeysBigMouth. In Curses! My Eye Has Swollen Up! Mick describes his murderous encounter w/ a bee. He raises many scientific questions, which my analytical minds attempts to answer here, based on my expertise w/ swollen things & crime dramas!
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Best-Ever Beef Stew RecipeSharing my personal beef stew recipe. I learned the basics from Mom, but added my own "secret" ingredients, which I'm too generous to keep to myself! Enjoy.
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Does Alternative Medicine Work? (Personally Speaking)AC Assignment on personal experience w/ alternative medicine therapies. Having used several in my work w/ a home-birth midwife, here is an intro to how I came to try herbal remedies, nutrition therapy, chiropractic, acupuncture & massage/reflexology.
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A Scary Story: The RingerCeleste was alone in this stifling old house w/ her babies. The screams of her dying grandmother reverberated in her head. Kurtis, troubled since Vietnam, had bolted. Now the doorbell kept ringing, & no one waited outside but the night. (True tale!)
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Best Halloween Costume Stores in BloomingtonThis AC assignment gave me the chance to do something I love. Explore Bloomington's 3 oldest Halloween Costume Stores, all family owned businesses. All worth checking out. And I had a great time doing it!
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Funny Halloween Memories: He Just Wants to DirectSo maybe "All the world's a stage", but every Halloween our son Josh requisitioned our front porch for his own personal theater. Usually I was astonished and proud. But over the years there were times when my ideas clashed with his artistic vision!
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Can You Identify This Freaky Creature on My Door?Opening my door late at night 8-26-09, I was startled by this critter on my storm door. Like a mini-frog w/ wings & bulging eyes! With terror in my heart & shaking hands, I bravely took these freaky pics. Mercifully it's gone now! Any ideas what is was?
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Birthday Fun at Ninety-four"Today Lenore Bilodeau turned 94. Doug's mom didn't remember it was her birthday when we picked her up at the nursing home, but boy, she sure was happy to know she had a party to attend!" Memories may dim, but her love remains bright. A family celebrates.
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Wedding Vows We WroteIn April '75, engaged to Doug, our vows came to me in a vivid dream. On August 9,'75 we made these promises. For our 34th anniversary, I'm sharing them on AC. They've worked pretty well thus far! (Two pics attached)
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Flash Fiction: Rocky Ain't Talkin'Humor. "Rocky glanced at his sleeping bedmate. The noise at the door got louder, but Rocky knew from experience if he woke her when someone knocked, he'd get pelted with sharp words & a whack with the paper. Still, he felt compelled to investigate."
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She Sang to Me"She sang to me, my Granny did / on front porch swings, on summer nights /when we were new to southern Indiana. / Sitting on her soft expansive lap / I was safe and wrapped in Granny's songs." Poem written summer '91 in memory of my maternal grandmother.
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Famous Family Fruit SaladSinfully scrumptious raw fruit salad recipe born of the decadent counter-culture days. See strange pics for proper consistency!
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This is My Brain on Drugs: Post-OpHe said: "Just a quick note letting you know Allene came through the gall bladder surgery with no problems." She said: "Paert 2. I read what doug worte abt when I came ouit of sugrery & I thought what the hell is he taliking abt."
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When the Sizzle is a Drizzle on the Fourth of July"The 4th of July was a bust here today/all drizzle and rain and downpour./ No parade, not a band nor baton was in sight/just rain, rain, rain, rain & then more! /No swimming, no picnics, no barbeque smells/no softball, no fribee, no fun." (But poem is)
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Ode to a Firefly: 1979 Fourth of July"Imagine a firefly bold enough to compete with the 4th of July. / Imagine it thinking that we would see / When our eyes were entranced with the sky." Poem written for my kids in '79 after we'd been delighted by a smaller light show at the fireworks.
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How to Sex Up Any Innocent Article with the Right Ad"Worried the ads your article draws are too boring? Do your ads just sit there & do nothing but spell out dry info about debt collectors? Perhaps you want to draw the most exciting sexy ads available. Try these dirty little secret words!" (All in fun!)
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The Fallen Glove: Remembering Michael JacksonMy main "attachment" to Michael Jackson is thru my youngest son. He's 26 & was strongly influenced by the dance styles of MJ from the time he was barely two years old, standing in front of MTV watching Thriller, trying to twirl like the King of Pop.
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Sorry, Stevie: A Big Sister's List of Ooops!"For knocking you off the porch & tossing you into the bushes while you slept in your carriage, I'm awfully sorry. For pushing you out of the hayloft at cousin Lowell's when you were 5, boy, was that an error in judgment!" Mea culpas for my bro's b'day.
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Coney Island DreamWill you find the fulfillment of your Coney Island dream? / Will you stride across the creaking boards / where fifty zillion feet wrote their impressions, /where generations left their lovers' kisses, /and beach umbrella memories still stick in the sand?
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Free and Easy Father's Day Pencil Holder for a Happy Pappy's DayOk. You're broke. You're busy. It's almost Father's Day. You meant to take little Clotilda shopping for her daddy, but ...see excuses 1& 2. Don't panic. A free & easy Father's Day Pencil Holder is as near as your recycling bin. You DO recycle, don't you?
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So You Think You Can Drive, SonI see him across the room now, his over-sized feet in beat up Army boots tucked at awkward angles under the plastic chair. That gotta-get-it-now state of an angular six-foot boy on his sixteenth birthday, testing for his life-altering learner's permit.
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Kill the Orkin Roach Ad Before it Kills ME!"I was blissfully reading a nice juicy comment on "My Best Friend's House", fluffing my ego, when a huge brown cockroach appeared to rush from the bottom left side of my screen straight up into the edge at the top!" Help me AC! You're my only hope!
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My Best Friend's House: in Memory of Memories"It looks so squat and hard now./ A square of concrete blocks,alone/ stripped of its character, like a soldier disgraced./ But I can see her standing there/ on the ghost of its little porch./ This was my best friend's house." For her b'day May 30th.
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In Case I Never Told YouLetter for Mom's b'day (w/5 pics) written w/ love & a dash of humor. "For taking the time to plant ten kisses all over my face every night, no matter how tired you were or how many kids you had to tuck in..."
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Mother's Day Tribute to Mom"She told us if we must yell at someone, yell at them for what they did, never for the color or country or religion they were born into. They had nothing to do with that." Originally printed in our local newspaper 5/13/07. All still true and heartfelt.
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Father's Day Poem"For stories read night after night / even when you'd memorized each line / for taking their minds to worlds I couldn't reach / through grown-up books they grew to comprehend / because their father took the time to share..." For my sweet spouse
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Father's Day Card MessageMessage of gratitude & love for my spouse, as if in a Father's Day Card
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Unseen"Tears beneath the surface of the creek / real but unseen / Do they erode the rocks?/ Do they poison the fish?" Thoughts on hiding sadness or seeking a safe release. Short free-verse poem for Nat. Poetry Month Challenge of the day.
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Young Frankenstein Still Puttin' on the Ritz After 25 Years"To build a monster film upon a well-established floor, /Mel Brooks used Mary Shelly's brain in nineteen seventy four. /He used equipment from the Frankenstein of thirty-one, /and recreated sets to match the styles of Bride and Son." My tribute to Y.F.
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Observe the Clever BirdSix line poem in iambic pentameter abt a clever bird's luck. Poetry challenge of the day.
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Poem 2 About Something in the KitchenHumorous poem abt the quest for the perfect toaster that won't burn or undercook and will accept bagels. And the joy upon finding the sleek red perfection upon a K-Mart shelf! Poetry challenge of the day. (Part 2)
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Poem 1 About Something in the KitchenShort poem abt an unwelcome something in the kitchen. Poetry challenge of the day.
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Haiku Poems for Two PetsTwo haiku abt two unplanned dogs in our lives. Pilot was a chow mix found in '93 as my sister & I drove through Pilot Mtn, N. Carolina. He was her sweet, sweet Pi-dog for more than a decade. Lydia's our son's neurotic dog, who seems to live w/ US!
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How I Plotted with God to Get a Sister"Obviously Mom had no control over this boy/girl business, so this time I went over her head. I went straight to God." Improbable, but true story of my quest for a baby sister. Told in part from a little girl's view. For my sissy's birthday, April 19th.
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Tears in My TeaA mother's nostalgia on a gray January in '04, when the songs her daughter strums & the smiles her grandchild shares, bring tears to morning tea. Poem for Amy & her Zoe.
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Inspiration: Playing Hide & Seek with the Muse"Now that you have my attention, / why have you called me here?/ Not merely called, but demanded, / screaming in my ear!" Humorous verse about the frustration that sometimes goes with inspiration. A playful close to National Poetry Month.
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Mother Tree: Poem for Earth Day"Hold me snugly to the earth,/ lift me sweetly to the sky,/ root your gnarled fingers deep into your mother's rich soil. / She suckles you from seedling/ to massive cloudscraper..." Love poem to one of Earth's offspring, a beloved tree.
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Creeping Words: Poised for War Again"I still make grocery lists./ I shop and smile and talk./ I tell my grandchild nursery rhymes to hide inside her innocence./ But thoughts creep in,/ and sounds creep in,/and visions I have seen." Poem of a grandmother's retreat from yet another war, 2002.
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Germination"The seeds were carried on the wind./ No tools dug deep into my brain/ to sow the fertile soil/ but the breath of another/ carrier of words..." Poem of how words, conceived in mind, reach their birth on the page.
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Brush LightlyYour kindness brushed lightly, unseen cobwebs across my face.... A poem of thanks for lightly placed kindness that leaves deep impressions
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Peace SignPoem in remembrance of young love 1968-style
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My Mother's VoiceShe's unraveling like a spool of thread, a bolt of silk, spilling her stories in my ear. They flow in detailed intricate patterns, weaving their way through time.... I listen, I listen, I laugh w/ her, I cry inside, I wish I knew her then...
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First Smile: Love Letter to SpringSpring spread across the land today like a baby's first smile. We knew it was coming. Hardy trees dripped hints of early pregnancy, tiny buds swelling with potential leaves. Then Mother Nature, in her prankster guise, tossed us a blanket of snow...
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Birth of a Leprechaun"Twas thirty years ago plus three, a cold St Patrick's Day, a wee one came into the world in quite the usual way." Thus begins the sweet & funny ballad of our 3rd son's birth, & why our "little leprechaun" grew to loathe the wearin' of the green!
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Silent Connection"It takes time to relax the noise away. It falls slowly in layers, the way molasses creeps along a wooden spoon." Free-verse poem based on author's search for connection w/ nature in silence. Written same day as "Today" during blissful spring preview.
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A Tale Quite Tall by One Quite SmallPlayful fantasy in verse abt perspective & diversity. Three friends learn "there's never a need to measure one's worth by one's size". Characters based loosely on 3 popular AC humorists, Linda J, Maria R & Morag, but he's really not an elf!
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TodayToday I woke to a stunning day. Today I will breathe moving air & hear the chatter of birds, not the hum of home machinery. Today I will grasp any wispy thought that floats by and play with it to my heart's content. Prose poem of an awakening.
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Thin Ice"She was a tender juicy sweet young thing. She dared not seem too vulnerable, like fragile ice...." Empathetic poem to the young, skating on the edge of adolescence.
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Valentine Project for Hearts & HandsPosterboard, construction paper, markers, scissors, glue & hands: you're set to do a fun V-Day project! Whether your group's just 2 or 102, this is adaptable. First done at our Boys & Girls Club, 5 pics of the project are attached for easier instruction.
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BeheldLove poem for my spouse of 33yrs, whose face I first beheld in second grade.
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Most Spiritual Film Ever Made About a RodentWhen I first saw Groundhog Day in early 1993, it had a profound affect on me. When I saw it again & again, I was pulled along on a metaphysical train of thought. It was a fun ride. I print this now to honor our only holiday named for a rodent. So déjà vu!
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Love Poem for My MoofieShort poem written for my spouse in our first year of marriage, after the birth of our son. Intended to reflect our mutual appreciation of playful words & off-beat humor.
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Most Memorable Birthday Party of All the Kids: David's Crazy 8In less than a year David got a new dad, new town, new school, and new baby brother. His 8th birthday was coming but it was the Bicentennial year, so even his birthday was shared.
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Parenting Firsts: Homemaker HumiliationNot a proud parenting moment when harried young mom with new baby and toddler learns tossing out old, moldy food now and then may be more important to her kids' health than she thought!
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First Day of School: Poem for My Granddaughter (Written Aug. 2005)Poem written August 2005, as my only grandchild entered kindergarten, thus the wider world of school and independence. "I want to give you wings" was my wish to protect and empower this bright loving sprite. Printed now to honor her 9th birthday.
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The Colors of Jim"He smiles at me across my desk." Poem written more than a year after Jim passed at the age of 34. Inspired by a black & white photo that for me embodied the essence of my oldest son. Sweet tribute to a happier day.
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Initiation: Poem in Remembrance of My Firstborn's BirthdayGirl of 18, left alone to suffer rites of initiation into motherhood totally unprepared. Military hosp, no one explains what's happening, or holds her hand or offers reassurance. Poem details the trauma that altered her life & brought her firstborn son.
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Phooey on the New Format for Photos!Some change is good, but a writer w/ bowels in an uproar details 6 Peeves at New Look. Flashing ads in text is akin to hyper kid run amok at a book-reading, screeching, Look at me! while audience strains to hear author read! And those tiny photos!
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TWILIGHT the Movie: A Unique Take on Vampire SexNever got into the blood-sucking undead sexual fantasy. But desperate need for a movie fix led to seeing Twilight. Besides the unexpected laughter, it raised the serious question of why a girl falls for a predator w/ poufy hair & Groucho eyebrows.
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My Best Christmas Gift of 2008Cliche or not, the closeness of family IS the best gift, esp.in times of hardship. A list of my favorites, many non-material, but the best is saved for last...a little poem by my grandchild that carries the gift of promise.
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A Not so Funny Christmas StoryI'm a holiday slut! I give myself fully to any excuse to decorate and celebrate. But a trailer stuffed w/ boxes from our move, no room for a tree or a dinner, plus the loss of a pet on Xmas Eve, looked doomed to be sad. Here's how our family spent Xmas.
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My Biggest New Year's Resolution for 2009: Be Ready for the Holidays This Time!Humorous approach to a huge problem: so many boxes left from last year's move, we couldn't have holidays here! Declaring "Never again!" to the Fates, here is an off-beat plan for 5 ways to approach the clutter and be sure we're ready in 2009!
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Top 10 Gifts Never to Give MeList of ten gifts author would not appreciate and her reasons! Told in a humorous vein.
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Dear MariaAfter hearing of her daughter's obsession w/an "Anonymous AC Millionaire", Maria's "mother" speaks up in this preposterous, hilarious ongoing convoluted saga of trains, love, briefs, sex and smelly AC writers, M.M-S, SS, M.R., "J.J." and now... "Momma"
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The Santa Myth: How I Tossed Out the Trauma and Still Kept the FunSanta was like God: Fantasic-but-real.But in 5th grade, my belief system shattered.How many lies had I been told?Could I believe ANYthing? This wouldn't happen to my kids! Funny,touching and thought-provoking story of how truth and fantasy found balance.
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Haircuts from Hell: The TrilogyWhy are no songs written to the pursuit of a good hairdresser? For millions of women it trumps the search for a good man! Ever get a Bride of Frankenstein Do? Hilarious photos of humiliating hairstyles endured on the quest for The One.
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How to Paint with Chocolate PuddingDying to dip in and smear chocolate all over while licking your fingers? NO?! Well, this one's not for the faint of heart. But if you're just crazy enough to try this, you and your kids will never forget the day! Photos of Actual Pudding Painting Party!
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How to Paint with Autumn Leaves: Kids' Art ProjectCreative project to do with kids (or alone!) using leathery autumn leaves. End up with easy, unique paintings of leaf prints or make leafy notecards to give as gifts.
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How I Learned Not to Trust Cartoon Science (ow!)Girl "old enough to know better" dazzles neighborhood kids with daring stunt based on thorough knowledge of cartoon science:If you leap out a window to a mattress below, you'll bounce like a ball on a trampoline! Painful lesson told w/ hindsight humor.
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ListenFree-verse poem written to encourage the desolate hearts of those who touched me online.
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Rocky Vs.The Dogs of Dixie Street: A Squirrel's TaleA humorous little tale of a tail.
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How I Came to Be a BallophobicHumorous tale of learning to play ball from a myopic little girl's view, and how it grew into a disdain for sports that led to ignorance of epic proportion and ultimately, her hilarious birthday cake faux pas.
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Room of Shadow and LightMemory of a child's new attic bedroom, of dolls and fantasy...until night comes. Her ghosts are not born of imagination, but imagination is her only retreat until she's old enough to exorcise the real threat. Memoir in 470 words
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Pepsi Preference: Is it REALLY a Choice or Are We Predisposed?Humorous musings by an out and open Pepsi addict of her "conversion" experience when her taste buds woke up to Pepsi and danced and begged for more! Memories of stockpiling Pepsi for colorful Aunt Alma's visits from NYC. Could there be a Pepsi gene?