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Category: Wisconsin

My Memoir Is Published

I’m happy to say that my memoir is now available in both Kindle and print editions.

#Hawaii, #Memoir, #Wisconsin

NaNoWriMo: More About That Later, Chapter 24, All’s Well That Ends

1977.  It’s mostly a blur.  Sometimes when I try to recall the events of that year, it seems as if it were … More

#Birthdays, #Education, #Exams, #Hawaii, #Memoir, #NaNoWriMo2020, #Wisconsin, #WriterFriday, #WritingPrompt

NaNoWriMo: More About That Later, Chapter 23, A Tale of Mad City

My first semester at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, definitely had its best of times and worst of times split … More

#Education, #friendship, #Hawaii, #Memoir, #Music, #NaNoWriMo2020, #ParentsandChildren, #Teachers, #Wisconsin, #WriterThursday, #WritingPrompt

NaNoWriMo: More About That Later, Chapter 15, Get Your Motor Running

When I would hear my friends talk about what their children were going through to get their driver licenses, I … More

#Cars, #Driving, #Hawaii, #Learning, #Memoir, #NaNoWriMo2020, #ParentsandChildren, #travel, #Wisconsin, #WriterWednesday, #WritingPrompt

NaNoWriMo: More About That Later, Chapter 6, Like Riding a Bike

One October when I was living in Madison, I agreed to housesit for some friends who were headed out of … More

#Animals, #Education, #FirstGrade, #Memoir, #NaNoWriMo2020, #Wisconsin, #WriterSaturday, #WritingPrompt

NaNoWriMo: More About That Later, Chapter 2, My Teeth

Two things I do know for sure about my first year on this planet.  One, I was an aggressive breast feeder.  This … More

#Dentists, #Hawaii, #Memoir, #NaNoWriMo, #Wisconsin, #WriterTuesday, #WritingPrompt

On Wisconsin

I hear, see, grow the silence of the fields, the farmershaving retreated into their farmhouses as graves,the long acres of … More

#Poetry, #sonnetsfromhawaii, #Wisconsin, #WriterMonday, #WritingPrompt

The Norway Dance

Last night I dreamed I danced on my Norwegian side.I’m ashamed to say, I’ve no idea what authentic Norwegian dance … More

#Dancing, #Poetry, #sonnetsfromhawaii, #Wisconsin, #WriterSaturday, #WritingPrompt

X. Crossing Sevens

So they don’t look like ones, you taught me, thatwill bring us back to all the music in Madison held … More

#Love, #Poetry, #Relationships, #sonnetsfromhawaii, #Wisconsin, #WriterFriday, #WritingPrompt

IX. A Madison Mis-Memory

i.My poor dance of memory means I can’t quite reconfigure you,a fool’s waltz round to think today, remembering how we … More

#Love, #Relationships, #sonnetsfromhawaii, #Wisconsin, #WriterWednesday, #WritingPrompt

VIII. After the Fall

i.You grow a green world, have a green thumb, I see,and I gladly enter into your loamy scented Eden,hung with … More

#Love, #Poetry, #sonnetsfromhawaii, #Wisconsin, #WriterMonday, #WritingPrompt

VII. Shooting Craps

I  can still picture the pair of fuzzy dice swingingfrom my little orange Karmann Ghia’s rearview mirror.I never knew whether to … More

#Poetry, #Relationships, #sonnetsfromhawaii, #Wisconsin, #WriterSaturday, #WritingPrompt
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