Author: rugby843

I am a widow since 2013 and live by myself in a small apartment. I use a wheelchair to get around, but I wouldn't consider myself disabled. I'm 11 years away from having bladder cancer resulting in a urostomy and I'm doing well. This cancer was a result of having radiation in 1995 because of uterine cancer. So have faith in yourself, a cancer diagnosis is not a death sentence. My first try at blogging was an attempt to help other people with my condition. I am a mother of three married children, and a grandmother to eight gorgeous kids, featuring them often here, and a great grandmother to two as of today, 6/7/25! I enjoy exploring my feelings and like to try the challenges. I like humor, music, movies, games, and some sports. I absolutely appreciate your reading and commenting on my blog. I am happy to read all of your blogs and learn more about you. Please comment however you like, ask whatever, and I'll answer honestly. Thanks for reading! Cheryl

Fandango’s Story Starter

by rugby843, posted in Uncategorized
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Muted lights filled the walkways when at midnight, the abandoned amusement park came alive. Soft accordion music rang through the booths of games that opened their shuttered curtains, and small people ran to play. The workers of the daily booths let their children play at will, no fees paid. It seemed a happy atmosphere until early morning when once again the booths closed, shutters down and locked, resting till the park opened at ten in the morning.

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SYW 3-30-26

by rugby843, posted in Uncategorized

Here are this week’s ad hop questions:

1.  Can you speak a second language? I wish I could.


2.  Can you remember any popular novelty gadget from the past that is not so widely available today? Walkman


3.  Can you juggle? Nope


4.  What is your favourite snack food? Nachos

Gratitude: I am grateful my granddaughters got together and saw the game at Mile High stadium! They were even on the Jumbotron 😀

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Share Your World 30th March 2026

MLMM Wordle

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Jill, only six, clung to her father in the cold rain. She had only known him a short time because he had been deployed since she was small. He threw himself into a mindset, a resolve to have this day special. And then it started raining at the park. He just held onto her during the storm and she somehow knew he was safe and would protect her.

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MLMM Monday Wordle #470

dVerse Poets

by rugby843, posted in Uncategorized
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You don’t have to look far to see the mad March hare. He stands in front of a big White House in Washington, DC.

the March winds prevail

bringing a sorrow and guilt

blowing the dark evil ways

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mad as a hatter they used to say

this is merely another way

the evil spirit declares the day

“let’s have a war in which I play

the king and all laws go away”

generals, remember to pray

even judges cannot sway

while innocent children suffer the slay

where is the angel of peace you say

flown with the mad march hare this day.

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Haibun Monday 3-30-26: Mad March Hare

The Sunday Whirl

by rugby843, posted in Uncategorized
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The writer spent enough time thinking of a particular creature who exists on paper. She had spent hours on visits, interviewing, trying to know and understand the felonious prisoner’s versions of their crimes. She wondered if the rumbles in her head were a walk too far into the dark dirt of the criminal mind. She was a writer, but had to distance herself from the characters she inscribed.

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Wordle 759