This has been a weird few weeks for me. Here are the highlights ( Read more... )

This is an entry for LJ Idol Minor Plus. This week's topic is "Thanks for Giving," and you can read the other entries here: https://therealljidol.dreamwidth.org/1108602.html. I've had a rather busy week, so instead of writing something new, I'm going to share a previously unpublished piece from 2013.


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This is my entry for LJ Idol, with the topic "Making Fire." The voting post is here: https://therealljidol.dreamwidth.org/1071987.html

Crouching low, piling up sticks, my son and his fellow Cub Scouts kept up a steady patter. Nine- and ten-year-olds, it would seem, are incapable of taking any action without commentating on it. Loudly announcing ( Read more... )

My son, who goes by the online nickname KFP, will be celebrating his 10th birthday soon. This would have been a big party year, but instead we've moved his celebration online ( Read more... )

My second poem today is based on today's Wild Violet prompt, to write a poem based on a saying or idiom: NAPOWRIMO 2020 - Prompt 24


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I'll be writing two poems today, to get caught up for the National Poetry Writing Month challenge of one poem a day. The first one is based on the Wild Violet prompt, asking poets to write a poem about a first: NAPOWRIMO 2020 - Prompt 18


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My poems today are based on two poetry prompts from Wild Violet. The first one (NAPOWRIMO 2020 - Prompt 16 is a "Twenty Questions" poem, or a poem written completely in questions.


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My poem for the National Poetry Writing Month challenge today is a neighborhood poem, based on the prompt at Wild Violet: NAPOWRIMO 2020 - Prompt 15. By request of KFP, I'm dedicating this poem to his favorite Minecraft Youtuber, Stampy Longnose.


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For my National Poetry Writing Month poem today, I wrote a "how to" poem, based on the prompt I posted at Wild Violet: NAPOWRIMO 2020 - Prompt 14


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For today's poem, I wrote a small poem, following my own prompt for Wild Violet: NAPOWRIMO 2020 - Prompt 5.

This is the first time I've ever written a poem with my son hanging over my left shoulder, critiquing it as I wrote. But then again, he did have a vested interest in it, having built the subject.


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