Home for the Car

Moving has always been stressful for the humans All the boxes and bags All the rushing around early in the day All the restless nights I sit, silently waiting to be useful Carrying my human from place to place Suddenly filled with possessions We travel South The old highway cuts…

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Purist Form

I was cleaning out my paper files after a recent move (more on that coming soon), and found the original notebook of my young 18-year-old mind in college.  This artifact of my poetry is just a piece of paper, but isn’t that amazing? This is a poem called Observations.  It…

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Paper and Pen, Once Again

https://www.relay.fm/penaddict It has been more than two years since I found this podcast in a moment of chaos.  I needed something to listen to at night to calm the mind of all that was going on around me and inside my head.  I found the professional podcast style with hosts…

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Personal Log

Official Navy records of captain’s logs in the United States go back as far as 1776 (which is pretty good since that is the year the country declared independence).  This idea of recording events and interpretations was brought forward through history and into science fiction world of Star Trek. The…

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Gatherings

There were some interesting parallels between a work meeting and a church dinner I attended in the same week.

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Learning How to Read Again: The 5-Year Journey

Background: When I was in elementary school, I read all the time.  It was encouraged at school and at home.  We had dedicated time to go to the school library and find a new book.  In the early years, I was all about the non-fiction.  The more science and math…

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