Originally posted on a sense of place:
City Council consultation on Monday 6 October, 6pm to 8pm, The Conference Centre at LACE, Croxteth Drive, Sefton Park, L17 1AA – this will be to discuss Sefton Park and Wavertree libraries. In 1958 Billie Holiday recorded ‘Lady in Satin’, her last but one LP and the final one to be released…
Originally posted on Extra Dry Martini:
A gentle breeze blows across the outdoor terrace as I sit underneath large stone columns, sipping iced coffee, scribbling in my journal, occasionally looking up from my writing to stare out and scan the hazy blue L.A. skyline, reminding myself where I am. It’s a Tuesday afternoon, the first…
Originally posted on publikworks:
Neither. I call this the pre-party to Hell freezing over: winter in Illinois. In polite company, though, I generally use fall; I find it’s more descriptive. I mean, the temperatures fall, the leaves fall, the light falls, and my spirits, oy, they don’t fall so much as plummet. They rain down…
Originally posted on REMEDIA:
By Tom Koch “It was about the Beginning of September, 1664, that I, amongst the Rest of my Neighbours, heard in ordinary Discourse, that the Plague was returned in Holland, for it had been very violent there, and particularly at Amsterdam and Roterdam, in the year of 1663.” Daniel Defoe, Journal…
Originally posted on Off the Charts:
photo by author Marcy Phipps, BSN, RN, CCRN, ATCN, TNCC, an ICU nurse who recently took up flight nursing, is an occasional contributor to this blog. I recently experienced a series of events that seemed interconnected and orchestrated. It started with my usual morning run. I was jogging out…
Originally posted on The Photograph Collective:
We thought we’d go to the beach. We thought we’d go the park. We thought we’d stay in and watch a movie. I wasn’t there. I was there to watch. The tears in the wallpaper. The tears ripping through our home. “Lost in Translation”? “Veto”. “Brighton”? “Veto”. (We) crossed…
Originally posted on The Not Me:
Carrie spoke through narrow lips that looked like they were sewn on too tightly. She had the gravelly voice of a lifetime smoker, but her trembly tone and hesitant nature made her barely audible. She seldom talked to people during the support group, and if she did she never peered…
Originally posted on mrsmomblog:
Last year, I wrote the post “How Common Core is Slowly Changing My Child.” It struck a nerve with parents and teachers across the country as we all were adjusting to the new Common Core State Standards. I wrote it on a night where everything went wrong and homework was a…
Originally posted on potatofaces:
cherry pie inspired by Twin Peaks There are some films you just can’t watch without craving for specific food or drink: 1. To start with, I can’t watch ‘ Sideways’ without a glass of pinot noir…Simply cannot be done! 2. ‘Waitress’ without any pie and trying to banish the urge to…
Originally posted on Lady Fi:
I don’t seem to be able to get enough Of our late evening honey glow! It pours like warm syrup Over water and jetty. It bathes Oscar As he enjoys the view; And dances on golden feet Over the lovely clover. (I lay down in a patch of nettles to take this…
Originally posted on Claws Carefully Sheathed:
As a veterinarian I have seen death aplenty. I have been responsible for the ending of thousands of little lives, inflicted the pain of loss on thousands of people in my own “professional” way, and experienced loss of my own – family, friends, pets, patients. There are times that…
