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

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

Thursday Inspiration

by rugby843, posted in Uncategorized

“Respond to this challenge by either using the prompt word dark, or going with the above picture, or by means of the song ‘Evil Ways’, or by going with another song”.

My first thought was a song from the eighties, “White Wedding” sung by Billy Idol. We listened to many Idol songs, mainly because my middle son played guitars and copied Idol’s style. Having three teenagers, I listened to a lot of music!

“The music video, featuring Idol attending a goth wedding, is one of his best-known. The bride is played by Perri Lister, Idol’s real-life girlfriend at the time. She is also one of the three dancers clad in black leather, who slap their buttocks in time with the clap track in the song as they shimmy downwards near the end. “That’s the kind of thing they love in England”, says Idol.”

“In one scene, Idol forces a wedding ring made of barbed wire onto Lister’s finger and cuts her knuckle. Lister insisted that her knuckle actually be cut in order for the scene to appear more realistic.[11] MTV initially removed this scene from the video.” Wikipedia

I’ve never seen the video, but it sounds pretty weird.

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Thursday Inspiration #325 Evil Ways

Can You Tell a Story in 84?

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Joe adjusted headphones watching his wife dance the conga with friends they made on this tour. The bus was not a luxury, but adequate for the price. A shark in the tourism industry was plentiful, but Joe waggled costs down to something affordable. The “soundtrack” playing in his ears was the baseball game he was missing. After four years of sitting in a noisy seat, Joe threw in the towel. The seats were expensive, behind the umpire, but his wife and this tour replaced them.

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Can You Tell A Story In…