see you on the flipside

There are a lot of this’es and that’s going on right now that are pulling me away from the keyboard.  Not insignificantly is what feels like inflamed tendons in my right wrist.  The tendons need rest.  Starting now and until next Tuesday I’ll be on vacation from WP.  See you all on the flipside!

Thursday Inspiration 69 — Free as…

Free as a weed in a sidewalk crack. Free as a puppy on the run. Free as dandelion puffs in the breeze. Free as a drop of water in the lake. Free as afternoon lazy bees. Free as a kitten curled in the sun. Free as a turtle on floating log. Free as the scent…

dVerse — MTB: Stream of Consciousness — To My Son

    My subject to write on was my older son, now in his 30’s.  We had lunch together outside of his workplace yesterday.  We sat in our bag chairs on a spot of grass off of the parking lot. I set the timer for ten minutes and let the stream flow. Then I read…

What do you see # 42 — The Muse

She’d been held hostage in the rustic cottage for weeks. The daughter of a wealthy international businessman, the kidnapping had happened when the family was on vacation in South America. Her captors were brusque but they treated her with care as she was worth a lot of money to them. Every day she made a…

#FF — lullaby

Tourists returned to the village of Hualong, after enduring five years of rigidly enforced international travel restrictions. Three years prior, laissez faire attitudes and practices had killed or disabled twenty million worldwide. The vaccine was developed from a tropical fungus that could be easily mass-produced. Mae could hear them in her upper apartment over the…

FDDA 11 — “Escape from US”

Fandango is the host of Fandango’s Dog Days of August.  Fandango says: Today’s theme is “your greatest fear.” Is it death? Disease? Ghosts? Someone? Something? Share a story, a poem, a photo, a drawing, some music, or whatever you wish to share about your greatest fear.  If you wish to participate, please write your post,…