I remember having so much to say about my Peace Corps experience 20 years ago. Two years living in another country and everything seemed so different: a new culture, new people to meet, new food to try, new challenges to overcome. I journaled, wrote home weekly, and documented my experience as if I was going […]
Today’s contribution to WEGO’s Health Activist Writer’s Month Challenge is all about giving props to what we appreciate the most. My challenge–keeping this list at 10. The ‘I’m a Lucky Girl’ List 1. Terry 2. Zoey & Bleu 3. My Parents 4. Barb 5. Grams 6. Good Friends 7. My Peace Corps Family 8. My […]
I read today’s WEGO Health Activist Writer’s Month Challenge post as a couple of different tasks. The first is to write about burnout and what it feels like and/or the second is to write about what gets you OUT of the pit of despair, when nothing is going your way. Yvonne at Considering the Lilies […]
I finished a very fascinating book over Spring Break called the Longevity Project–Surprising Discoveries for Health and Long Life from the Landmark EIGHT-DECADE STUDY by Howard S. Friedman and Leslie R. Martin. In 1921, a Stanford University psychologist, Dr. Lewis Terman, began a study of around 1500 gifted school children, looking at the sources of intellectual […]
What a week! Frankly, I need some levity in this contribution to WEGO’s Health Activist Writer’s Month Challenge. Here are a couple of vintage photos of myself taken on Easter Sunday, 1970. These photos were taken: •6 months after my sister was born. •7 years before I tested into my school’s TAG program. •8 years […]
I don’t know if you can quite say that a word cloud is ‘wordless,’ but I did like the suggestion for today’s WEGO Health Activist Month Challenge post.
Today’s challenge is to see if my readers can pick out which of the following statements is simply not true about me. It’s the first time I am trying Poll Daddy or even doing a poll in WordPress, so you may want to weigh in with your guess in the comment section.
Half way there on Day 15 of WEGO’s Health Activist Writer’s Month Challenge! Today’s prompt is to pick someone else’s blog post and comment on it, linking it back and sharing the love. I’m venturing out of my “condition” today and sharing a post by Carolyn Thomas@Heart Sisters. She has an excellent–and very colorful–website focusing […]
So, thanks to Kelly’s nudge and the cute responses, I went on a bit of a haiku blitz. Here are the results… A powerful storm Came to the bayou last night Barely slept a wink. Poor Zoey baby Burrowing under the sheets Not digging this storm Bleu is quite stoic Seems […]
Taxes to do French Quarter Fest & a crawfish boil to attend Gorgeous weather today, but rain tomorrow Can’t forget papers to grade! Grocery shopping either No time to focus on cancer or figuring out how to write a haiku!
Searching for EMWA 