{{A re-post, for many, many unspoken reasons.}} We loved dive bars, the old geezers, dollar drafts, gummy pool tables. Most weekends, we’d visit somewhere else, the earlier, the better, and make new best friends with the characters who peppered the naugahyde. There should’ve been plaques above each seat with the names, bronzed and indelible.…Continue Reading
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“The Room”
Most days, I choose not to look inside and close “the room” to general viewing. If someone forgets to pull the door shut, I, unprepared for the vicious assault on my senses, cringe as I walk past, and pretend it doesn’t exist. Just doesn’t exist. It’s a figment of my imagination, a portal to another,…Continue Reading
The Peacock
I am re-posting this…because I think of her from time to time…Like now. First, she introduced us to the man on her porch. Resembling an Orthodox Jew with his black hat, and beard — also black — he shuffled away in knee-high sports socks and Adidas gym shoes. Next, she welcomed us into her…Continue Reading
PROMPTuesday #132: Scintillation, in the Family Way
Courtesy of my friend, Paul: Today’s creative writing challenge should you choose to accept it, is to: Write an everyday, “boring,” straightforward activity as if it were p$rn. Make it scintillating, but not too p#rny. We’re a family blog over here at San Diego Momma. HA HA! I make me laugh. …Continue Reading
Decluttering, Euphemistically
Just re-posting this…because HOLY TIMELY… Just checking in to say that my husband and I are not divorced yet. Oh, it’s OK, probably. I’m crossing fingers that we will weather Project “Tidy House in Sequence Beginning (with) Large Obvious Wrecks & Stains” (THIS BLOWS), also referred to pseudo affectionately as the “The Huge Intrepid,…Continue Reading
Perspective
It took me three days and eight grocery store trips to shop for Thanksgiving. I made five lists, lost four, and retrieved the last from a hapless garbage toss. I’ve searched the Internet for homemade stuffing recipes dozens of times because I forget which bread I’m supposed to use, switched the turkey cooking method to…Continue Reading
Sh$t My Dad Makes
So I talked to my dad today. And this is funny because he is funny in a gruff Shit My Dad Says way, and whenever I talk to him he makes me laugh. Usually without meaning to. Did I ever tell you the song he taught us kids when we were young? Stay…Continue Reading
PROMPTuesday #131: Of Odes and Such
First of all, let me publicly apologize for not PROMPTly responding to your submissions last week. I plan to in the next few days. I always love what you write and want to savor and digest the posts, and not rush through and lose the flavor. (I am hosting Thanksgiving this year, and have eating…Continue Reading
Failed PR Pitch
First in a series… Dear Sandie Go Momma: You seem zippy! Always going somewhere, are we right? It says so right in your name, Sandie! Would you like to review our tornado car? It is built to withstand winds up to 300 miles per hour! We’re pretty confident that you will…Continue Reading
Long Story Short
Perhaps I’ve mentioned that I’m wordy? Like overly and irritatingly wordy? I’d let you ask my husband, but he had his ears removed in 2002. And the thing is even though I’m a lover of the language, I prefer to write it, and not say it so much. So I tend to not…Continue Reading
My Week So Far
Monday I woke up early and took a shower, then dried off, very happy with myself that I was not going to be late for anything this fine morning. Why, I was probably going to be early for stuff! No rushing! No eating half-and-half for breakfast! No washing my face with shaving cream, using a…Continue Reading
PROMPTuesday #130: The Shorter the Better
This PROMPT is lifted entirely from here, and thanks to her sharing it with me, I am unabashedly using it today. As you might have read if you followed the above link, this PROMPT’s challenge is to tell a whole story in 25 words or less as inspired by the six-word “novel” attributed to…Continue Reading
