Author: Lisa or Li

mother, grandmother, gardener, observer of nature, reader, writer, learner, bicyclist, woman who runs with the wolves, lover of music, philosophical daoist. Welcome.

#FF — A Tall Tale

PHOTO PROMPT © Lisa Fox A Tall Tale Remember Lewis Carroll’s Cheshire Cat? Few know of The Nottingham Thingamajig. Please, sit back, and I will tell the tale. Once upon a time, Nicky and Finn decided to play hooky from Nottingham Middle School. Who wanted to sit in a classroom with too little heat, too…

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dVerse — Tuesday Poetics — art in nature (tanka)

Meadow Argus / Photographed in Solomon Islands / Michael Sammut furry mandala starry eyes of universe rest on tattered leaf transformation’s mystery an answer without question Melissa Lemay is today’s host for dVerse’ Tuesday Poetics. Melissa says: write an ekphrastic poem to one of the given photographs taken by Michael Sammut.

dVerse — Haibun Monday — Hold Tight

photo taken Dec 2023 Hold TightA struggle in 2024, a struggle since 1993, when I stopped smoking cigarettes and stopped starving myself. Letting go of a pack a day and fasting left a vacuum that filled with food. Hikes and bike rides, step aerobics and Lake Michigan body surfing, couldn’t – and can’t – keep…

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#FF — My Grand!

PHOTO PROMPT © Rochelle Wisoff-Fields My Grand! Car windows down, asphalt sizzles post-rain as she winds her way along the old subdivision’s narrow road. Surrounded by newer subdivisions with their imposing proclamations of excess, Primrose Lane and its residents are proud of their modest ranchers, mature trees, little free libraries, and mostly-senior residents. As Mari…

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New Years Eve Story — Elves and Vices (mature audiences only)

This is one I wrote a year or two ago, for one of Rory’s challenges.  It’s becoming a holiday tradition to post it.  New Years Eve: Elves and Vices‘Twas the night before New Year and all through da clubEvery creature was snorting to house tunes by Dub.Us Imps we were hung and we hoped to…

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Movies! Movies! Movies! Favorite Movies *Watched* in 2024

Movies! Movies! Movies! Favorite Movies Watched in 2024 I got a flash of deja vu today when I went to imdb to start looking through movies made in 2024 and learned that there are 2,282,356 of them. Nuh uh not doing that. I went to my library borrow list and scanned through all borrows from…

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