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Tuesday Afternoon
Tuesday Afternoon Tuesday afternoon I’m just beginning to see Now I’m on my way It doesn’t matter to me Chasing the clouds away Moody Blues Those of us of a certain age probably remember this song by The Moody Blues. Where I lived, a radio station always played the song, of course, on Tuesday afternoons. Not just once that day but several times. People began calling the station in the morning to remind the DJ not to forget. If that day was raining, how much better the song sounded. Radio disc jockeys, or DJs, were kings then. The DJs knew music history. Listeners could call and ask questions…
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Winning and Losing Writing Competitions
Originally published May 19, 2022 My favorite poet Emily Dickinson sent her poems to The Atlantic Monthly Magazine in 1862. Editor Thomas Wentworth Higginson promptly rejected them. Emily suffered deeply from the rejection. What did Emily do when she received the news that the editor was not interested in her writing? She wrote even more poems! Emily turned something negative into something good. The communication between the editor and writer turned into a relationship based on poetry that lasted for many years. If there’s a chance the winner might only receive a virtual pat on the back, why do people enter writing competitions? They might lose. Sending your writing to a…
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The Lady With Too Many Books
Writing Challenge: Write a Poem or Story About Your TBR Pile The Lady With Too Many Books There once was a lady who read and read anything with words to her family’s dread, memoirs love stories spies cops and killers kings queens and handsome prince thrillers. Books on the floor the bed the tables up to the attic the rafters the gables Libraries yard sales airports vacations all you can carry store liquidations. Her family, her kids, her friends got worried, that look in her eyes and off she hurried to the best ever sale-three books for a dollar! Her cheeks got red and she tugged at…
