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Simply Six Minutes
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
SYW
1. What makes you smile at the drop of a hat? My kids and grandkids.
2. What makes you angry? Apathy.
3. What saddens you? A lot of sadness in my family the last six weeks as my last two sisters both passed away.
4. What do you find most frustrating? Politics
This week’s gratitude: I am grateful for the hospice care my sister received . And my close to me family support.
Share Your World 24th July
dVerse Poets Quadrille
New to the Q? Here’s what to do:
Pen us a poem of exactly 44 words, including some form of the word water, and post the poem on your own blog with a link back to this post. Link your poem up using the Mr. Linky below. Then make your way around the web to visit the waterways other poets have shared. Remember: the Quadrille is open all week, so be sure to float on back here to read – and write!- some more.
Sitting precariously
On slippery boulders
Smoothly carved by constant moving water
While feeling the humid air
Admiring the mountains
Distanced from her now
Lake Tahoe looms large
Blue waves ever seek the shore
Blue on blue on blue
So delightful.
MLMM Wordle
You are no knight and that is not a four wheeled carriage, it’s a wagon! In my generation (her grandkids mumble “ancient”) we used to know how to obey a woman’s request! No such maverick as you, sir, would be giving orders! Men were humble and courteous.
It was the anniversary of Lady Dunbar’s wedding to Sir Chiles, and she had squeezed herself into her old wedding gown, not realizing the back was wide open to accommodate her inflated size. A wool charcoal wedding suit was laying on the bed. She looked around for anyone to wear it, as it had been packed up with the dress. Sir Chiles had been gone for twenty years, but Lady Dunbar insisted on celebrating each year, regardless.
You there! The Lady pointed to her grandson Charles—you can wear it, it is reusable of course, so let’s see it on. The reluctant young man did as he was bidden.
Sammiscribbles Weekend Writing Prompt
Weekend Writing Prompt #321 – Renegade
Cyranny’s 1MinFic
***Barbie’-‘Oppenheimer’ Double Feature on Opening Weekend
http://cyranny.com/2023/07/19/july-19th-1minfiction-challenge/
Six Sentence Story
Rules of the hop:
Write 6 Sentences. No more. No less.
Use the current week’s prompt word.
Link up at Wednesday’s post. Link goes live at 6:00 pm through Saturday late…
Spread the word and put in a good one to your fellow writers.
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Mind the grid. Mind your step. Mind your instrument. Mind the cadence. Dress right, dress. Be loud and proud!
Sunday’s Six Sentence Story Word Prompt!
PROMPT WORD: GRID
The Sunday Whirl
Wordle 614 – A Baker’s Dozen
Public Media
The U.S. House Labor, Healthb and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Subcommittees released its draft fiscal year 2024 appropriations legislation that proposed to zero out federal funding for public media.
The bill eliminates funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), public television and radio’s single largest source of funding, and Interconnection, public media’s distribution network that enables viewers and listeners to receive programs and emergency alerts.
Let us be clear: Without federal funding, there is no public media. Multiple studies confirm that ending funding would devastate, if not destroy, public media, resulting in the loss of programs and services or stations going off air.
Americans consistently rank federal funding for public media as one of the best investments the government makes. For about $1.40 per American annually, almost every community has access to programs and services that educate, inform, and inspire.
One Liner Wednesday
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One-Liner Wednesday – New book next week!
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