Album: An Innocent Man
Artist: Billy Joel
Released: 1983
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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 Flashback Friday
Since I already bashed Trump today, I offer this from four, count-’em, 😳four years ago:
I shouldn’t have, but I did. . .😎 5-8-20 by rugby843
I was putting away some poetry notes and noticed the timing of the Etheree–1-10 syllables, no rhymes. And of course my target? Guess.
Trump
Teflon
Dictator
Seeming heartless
Professing knowledge
Is always thinking “Trump”
Disparages all experts
Takes no responsibility
Invents his own selfish rules and laws
When will this political nightmare end?
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Fandango’s Flashback Friday — February 9th
Send Trump to Brazil
From NPR:
“Former President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil attempted to overturn the country’s 2022 presidential election,according to accusations by the Brazilian federal police. Yesterday, police raided dozens of properties, seized his passport and arrested his close aides. An investigation also detailed what they say was a vast conspiracy by the right-wing leader and his aides to plot a coup. At one point, the report said Bolsonaro personally edited a proposed order to arrest a Supreme Court justice.”
SoCS
When things get “heavy” we are told to look for the light. That’s not always an easy thing to do. Sometimes the dark seems to last too long and we struggle, but the light is there so we just need to keep striving for it!
The Friday Reminder and Prompt for #SoCS Feb. 10, 2024
Writer’s Workshop
In retrospect, I wouldn’t say it was my best idea. I was going to the grocery on my scooter in 2015. I was following my grandson, he on his bike. We did lots of small trips, he on his bike, sometimes his little brother on a child scooter. It was a fun outlet always.
We were in the parking lot adjacent to the store and there was a speed bump. My grandson yelled back to me, “grandma, don’t go that way!” And me being an ass, thought I could navigate the bump if I approached it diagonally as if driving a car. The three wheeled scooter tipped and I fell off, breaking a bone in my hip and destroying my left elbow.
I ended up in the ER at three in the morning, had an allergic reaction to a Dilaudid injection, resulting in a pulmonary embolism and a week in hospital followed by rehab and taking Warfarin for nine months.
The worst part of it that still bothers me is the fact my grandson thought it was his fault. Of course it wasn’t, it was totally mine. He is still the empathetic sweet young man he was then.♥️
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Writer’s Workshop Prompts for February 8, 2024
Wednesday Hodgepodge
Here are the questions:
1. Something you’ve waited for recently?Paycheck☺️
2. What’s something you loved to do as a child? Fly on a swing.
3. Something you learned from a grandparent? Be quiet.
4. The most visited cities in the world last year (according to this site) were-Bangkok, Paris, London, Dubai, and Singapore. Have you been to any of the cities mentioned? Which would you most like to see? How do you feel about international travel in general these days? I’m not really interested in those places to visit but would love to visit my son and his wife in southern France.
5. February is the perfect month to rest up from the cold of January.
6. Insert your own random thought here: I would like WP to loosen up their constraints on how lines are posed on posts.🙄 Constantly having to readjust, etc takes a lot of time and causes frustration.
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http://www.fromthissideofthepond.com/2024/02/waiting-on-hodgepodge.html?m=1
dVerse Poets
Fandango’s Story Starter
This week’s Story Starter teaser is:
They just stood there, staring at each other. Everyone in the family around them stared too. It was the first time any of them heard him say “I love you” to his wife.
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Fandango’s Story Starter #135
Tanka Tuesday Shardoma
with cold crisp weather
drilling holes
tapping trees
how maple syrup begins
the sweet sap boiled thick
24 Seasons Syllabic Poetry Challenge, No. 20, 2/6/24, Part I, The Beginning of Spring (February 3 – 20) Risshun 立春 24
OVI Poetry – Loyalty
4 line stanzas, as few as one stanza and up to as many as you like. 8 syllables or less per line. Rhyming is AAAb. The second stanza would be CCCd. The third, EEEf. And so on. Meaning nothing in one stanza must rhyme with anything in the previous stanza. The fourth line does not rhyme.
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being ten, loyalties were clear
parents, friends, even pets, all dear
only later pressure caused fear
teenage peers lay it on
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Ovi Poetry Challenge 34: LOYALTY is your inspiration.
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