Category Archives: Holidays

Haiku Halloween

  Halloween coming The darkness falls now Still not soon enough I love Halloween It is the only night ever We are not that strange The veil is drawn taut I feel them near to me now Lost family, friends Well there’s some Halloween Haiku for you. I’ve got a movie going up on youtube first thing tomorrow if it… (more…)

Boo!

      I need work using my iPhone in its case to take movies. I’ll get better as time goes on. Not a good bunch of things this year. I wish they had more of the “poison’ line but not too much was in our local store that way. Did get  a poison  serving bowl for our party and… (more…)

Terror into Treats

    Running a little late this year. But I have another one to follow tomorrow. Then we’ll go outside and see what progress James has made on the spookifying of Winwood Manor.

Taking the Plunge

Well I’m going to give something a try. Tomorrow I’m going to put together my first Halloween blog/movie  and see if I can get going on having at least two Halloween themed entries a week. I’m also trying #Octpowrimo , which considering my poetry writing, once such a huge (in both writing and performing) part of my life has dwindled in… (more…)

For in every adult there dwells the child that was, and in every child there lies the adult that will be.

― John Connolly, The Book of Lost Things Tonight my sweet little girl (who is not having the easiest start to the school year but better than last year), my darling child said: “Mommy, this might be kind of random, but I need to ask you something,” I said, “sure Bean, what is it?” She said,  ”Well, is there really… (more…)

When chill November’s surly blast make fields and forest bare. ~Robert Burns

What is it about November?  I can barely stand to read over the previous year’s entries. I’ve been doing Nablopomo since the beginning and it seems each November there is some enormous decision, or some huge situation that demands attention. Inn 2006 things got crazy in the Bean’s preschool and we had to take her out. We were also coming… (more…)