Tag: #parenting
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NaPoWriMo 2018: Day 7- This is Me. That’s Me too!
For today’s prompt, Kyle Dargan suggests writing out a list of all of your different layers of identity. For example, you might be a wife, a grandmother, a Philadelphian, a dental assistant, a rabid Phillies fan, a seamstress, retiree, agnostic, cancer survivor, etc.. These are all ways you could be described or lenses you could…
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NaPoWriMo 2018 : Day 6 – I Worry About You
Today, challenge is to write a poem that stretches your comfort zone with line breaks. That could be a poem with very long lines, or very short lines. Or a poem that blends the two. You might break to emphasize (or de-emphasize) sounds or rhymes, or to create a moment of hesitation in the middle…
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NaPoWriMo Day 2 : I Believe in You
Today’s challenge is to write a poem that plays with voice. For example, you might try writing a stanza that recounts something in the first-person, followed by a stanza recounting the same incident in the second-person, followed by a stanza that treats the incident from a third-person point of view. Or you might try a…
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Dedicated to all Stay-At-Home Moms and Dads
I haven’t written in a week. I am simply busy. “But you’re not even working anymore!” I can hear you say. But I am! is the only response I can give while you look at me incredulously. According to Physics, work is what you do when you exert force on an object causing it to…
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The Day of the Marathon… 69th Republic Day of India…26th Jan 2018
For all those who read my previous post The Run up to the Marathon and have been wondering how it went today, here it is. I hope by the end of this post, I have been able to inspire some of you to put on your running shoes and hit the track. No, not running…