Not!!! — It was my 25th Birthday — middle of winter, July, brass monkey weather in fact! Darkening skies early. Freezing cold…. It was Friday and I had been at work all day when my friend Jennifer picked me up and we decided to go late-night shopping in town. I had my…

“I hear you crying.” — I hear you crying Your once proud mantle turned to powdered dust. Green to grey. * I hear you crying as your roots dry out bulbs, corms, and rhizomes shrivel, maxed out before their time. * I hear you crying while the murmuring wind crescendos to a wild screech; and…

If the earth should turn on us! — I wrote this after the French nation carried out their nuclear tests on Mururoa Atoll in 1996 with a possible prediction of a dramatic, climactic outcome. Still stood the earth poised… her pivot palls her life seeps as her heart breaks * Anchored by a slender sliver of light to…

Destruction of the worst kind! — I was in the laundromat when the earth died; and the lights went out.

Read and Weep I originally wrote this article on Article Source: http://EzineArticles.co m/3377280 in 2009 but I still believe this subject to be quite fascinating. Until this time I was quite unaware of the Castrati and their history in the 1600s. …

And Certainly on Being a Less Than Perfect Parent! — In my travels as a single mother and previously going through that supremely horrible process known as divorce I was smoking like a train. I had never smoked before but for some reason, it seemed to relieve my stress and get me through the extreme highs and lows of the…

And In Our Ceiling! — Over the last few years, we seem to have had an influx of possums invading our bedroom ceiling. …

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A Son’s Perspective at Age 17. — Stages of Learning To Dance It seems that in Year 8 at school when a young male attends a social and he wishes to dance with a lady he asks her, and then he proceeds to receive his lessons on the dance floor. …