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…
#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…
“Ding Dong Ding Dong,” by George Harrison — Happy New Year. It’s 2025! and part 2: The Analogues (repost)
image link The first time in memory that I heard Ding Dong, Ding Dong was when I bought the 2014 George Harrison: The Apple Years 1968-75 box set. Not only are there the first six of Geo’s solo albums but one DVD that has over 30 minutes of this and that, including two videos of…
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…
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…
#FF — A Christmas First
PHOTO PROMPT © Jennifer Pendergast A Christmas First Jen curled, dreaming, warm with the heated mattress pad Will gave her for Christmas. Clanking metal sounds woke her from putting coconut oil on Channing Tatum’s back. Jen yelled, “Hun, what’s that racket!?” just as Will walked into the bedroom with two large mugs. “Hot cocoa, Babe,…
FFF55 — Ninja Cat Toy (poem) and wood burning in winter 2024 (updated with new pics)
Ninja Cat ToyRubberesque, babycloud-shaped,with nubs on every surfaceexcept inside of boulder marble-sized oval big enough to fit a pawthrough to hold it.It sports light blue/pastel lime/blackribbons fashioned as hair or tailthat can be held by claws/fingerswhile engaged in solo/joint play.Now described, let’s verb it.Sold as a dental cleaner; it’s thatand more. She puts one paw…
Tao Talk 