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

Word Craft Poetry

by rugby843, posted in Uncategorized
Image from Dreamstime

warm and cozy place

nowhere else I’d rather be

quiet reflections

surrounded by soft and peace

happiness in the repose

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https://wordcraftpoetry.com/2022/11/29/tankatuesday-weekly-poetry-challenge-no-300-11-29-22-shareyourday/#like-56704

Fandango’s Story Starter

by rugby843, posted in Uncategorized

This week’s Story Starter teaser is: HE COULDN’T BELIEVE THAT SHE WAS DUMPING HIM JUST BECAUSE SHE FOUND OUT…he liked liver and onions! He grew up on a ranch and besides beef steak, calves’ liver was weekly fare. Now chicken liver was an altogether disgusting prospect…he was a cowboy! His lifelong tradition would be the dissolution of their relationship since the entire idea of organ meat disgusted the vegetarian.

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http://fivedotoh.com/2022/11/29/fandangos-story-starter-74/

Dashed Hopes

by rugby843, posted in Uncategorized
Stretching my personal imagination I may observe an earthly pink dusty mountain similar to a Mars landscape. The opposite of an engineer, I might explore the fourth planet from the sun as a possibility, a glimmer of hope for future generations. The unlikely idea of inhabiting the red planet may captivate my mind but I think I will not find any green men. (Sigh)

https://mindlovemiserysmenagerie.wordpress.com/2022/11/28/wordle-298/

Fandango’s Flash Fiction Challenge

by rugby843, posted in Uncategorized
This can’t be it, he thought, there’s no way have I spent my life searching for an ultimate being, a ruler of all things! My quest ends here and my disappointment is overwhelming. Joe had followed the trails as spoken and written by the wisest spiritual men on earth. He had spent years traveling and searching only to find this? Human heads? He turned and walked out of the heralded space. He decided there was no superior entity or wanted hope to be found.

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http://fivedotoh.com/2022/11/28/fandangos-flash-fiction-challenge-195/