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Haiku week!

Five syllables first, then seven, then five again. Join the haiku week! I'm amazed! Who else can we ensnare for Haiku Week? Look at all these haiku writers! * Norma * Sehlat * Nightmare * Hubby * Kim * Rachel * Mark * Nathania * Marcia * At The Green Frog * Michelle Apologies if I've missed

Haiku

I dared Norma to try a week of haiku with me. Haiku are snapshots, five syllables on the first line, seven on the second, and five on the last line. They're easier than sonnets, where you have a rhythm pattern as well as a rhyme pattern to follow.

Journal keeping course assignment #1

I'm posting this here because I'm the only one in class who had the book ahead of time (Leaving a Trace: On Keeping a Journal by Alexandra Johnson) so everyone else is running a week behind. I hate being first to post. I had my first

Grab Bag

Autumn Knitty is out, and the first pattern to catch my eye is the Hallowig. This could be so many things! Put in a fringe to make a punk Mohawk, make it in grey as a battle helmet, knit it in toxic green with tentacles as an alien head. I

Therapy cat

Quantum is about two years old now, she was our house warming present from Pat and Jodi. Her tail had been crushed, and then amputated since it wouldn't have healed, so she's a bobtail cat. Her previous owners didn't want her without the tail,

Blogger Idol Week Six - Movies

Movies that should never be made: * Anything based on a video game, or computer game (e.g. Resident Evil, Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat). Just don't go there. * Sequels of movies based on games (e.g. Resident Evil 2) * Battles that pit the evil bad guys from two totally

Blogger Idol week 5 - Picture This

Did you ever read those photo comic strips in kids magazines? The wily hunter stalks her prey. "Who? Me?" (Play theme for "Jaws" here) "You don't scare me. Besides, there's better prey upstairs" In its lair upstairs, the vicious sock

Blogger Idol picks

These are my top picks for Blogger Idol week four, on the theme "Oops!" * Seasons of Violet * What in Tarnation? * ireneQ * Ian's Messy Desk

Blogger idol week one: "The 80s"

The big event in the 1980s for me was moving from the new house to That House. The 1980s was when we moved from Stowemarket, a small village in Suffolk, England, to Ipswich, the county town of Suffolk. We bought That House in 1981. It seemed like a decent house

Another haiku

I haven't posted in a couple of days because I was freaked out how far and wide the Cardinal Sins of Blogging list went. Someone in the Netherlands linked to it, a couple of places whose languages I can't identify, and a pile of other linkers.

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