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Travel Blog: Addressing the Vegetarian Haggis

  Distant Balmoral Edinburgh, Scotland. The first moments in a new country are never the best....
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Photo & Poem: A Smoky Memory

  A dusky pink summer dawn, stepping out the porch door, halt. Dread at the smell of unnatural heat. How...
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Photo Challenge & Poem: Unlikely

  She's an economical cat, a tabby with concise ears, a tiny nose, and pointy feet on my sternum, lowering herself to...
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Photo Challenge & Poem: Awakening

    It's for me to worry about a winter dry enough for early grass fires, mine the worry for a...
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Photo Challenge and Poem: Rise/Set

  What is it about a sunset that I cannot look away? Trying to make out a small movement, barely...
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Photo Challenge & Poem: Rather

Lying in bed, head deep under, the covers folded so it's dark and warm, and just a thread of fresh...
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Photo Challenge & Poem: Silence

Is the bold sunset reflected in the pond or is it the water that sets the sky ablaze? Does the...
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Severe Weather Warning

It was 78 degrees yesterday. It's late October so the sun is lower in the sky. There was a slight...
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Photo Challenge: Layered

  It began with a word so small and unspoken that it waited in a bitter slick at the back...
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Photo Challenge & Poem: Waiting

The air goes still on the prairie during that instant when my finished inhale lifts gravity and just before the...
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