Friends, so many of you are passionate about charities you’ve started or organizations you support. Today is your day to submit information about your charitable organization to John Scalzi’s Whatever Holiday Shopping Guide.
Go to the link posted at the top of my post and carefully read the instructions for submission. Do it. ‘Tis the season.
Peace and gratitude, people!
Enjoy the suspense! Fixoffiction.wordpress.com
i wait
those four typed words hanging between us:
we need to talk
with trembling hands i key in your
number,
voice mail, my reward.
what cruelty has led us to this awful
place?
how much more can my sanity take?
i jump as a ringtone signals your call.
hello? i answer so softly that even i struggle to hear.
hey, you say, i wonder…
please, just end this agony! get it over with already!
well, i just wanted to know if i could have your recipe for lasagna.
oh, well sure. no problem. glad to help.
let’s talk again soon.
pain is now televised
pundits ponder the
circumstances
terrorist ties?
white male loner?
more gun regulations?
fewer gun restrictions?
does any of that matter anymore?
have we accepted this as the
usual business?
sometimes pain
overrides the well-worn
patterns,
overcomes the malaise.
i find curses slipping from my lips like wine from a carafe:
emboldened red,
dizzying,
potent.
but please,
don’t show me
i’m all pained out,
the story remains
the same.
http://whatever.scalzi.com/2015/12/03/whatever-holiday-shopping-guide-2015-day-four-fan-favorites/
Day Four of John Scalzi’s Holiday Shopping Guide gives fans an opportunity to provide input.
Do you have a favorite author, artist, or musician whose work you want to promote? Go to the link above and check out the criteria. Then make your pitch.
they let me vote
even pick out my own clothes
i can also read
whatever, whenever i choose,
but they tell me
this body i inhabit isn’t mine
they try to tell me
i have no right to decide.
they let me think
but on some issues my thoughts
do not have weight
though mine’s the changed life.
one day they’ll find,
this powerful contigent of “theys,”
that wenches like me
don’t listen to theys like them.
Yes, I got all political today after reading that a lawmaker in Colorado blamed Planned Parenthood for the recent shooting that occurred at a clinic in that state. Instead, we should blame the domestic terrorist who broke numerous laws and took the lives of innocent people. We should blame the lies and anger-fueled rhetoric of far right conservative politicians whose pandering to the lowest common denominator among the Republican party lead people to believe that they have the right to break the law of the land.
Keep your hands off of my reproductive rights.
Peace, people.
I fear we are all being held hostage by the NRA and their puppets in congress. Here’s how redswrap.wordpress.com feels. Great piece.
Here’s how I feel tonight.
I feel like it’s 1955. The polio vaccine has just been invented. People are dying from polio. Kids are in iron lungs. My sister is upstairs in her bedroom and the doctor keeps coming and going and my parents won’t let me go up there.
I feel like the United States government knows there is a polio vaccine but it won’t do anything to help people get it. It won’t help manufacture it. It won’t educate people about it. It won’t do anything to save people from dying and being in iron lungs even though it could.
That’s how I feel tonight. Our government is just abandoning us. Even though it has the power to save us.
When polio threatened to kill and cripple us, the government acted in all our interests. The public health departments of every city swung into action finding common cause…
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http://whatever.scalzi.com/2015/12/02/whatever-holiday-shopping-guide-2015-day-three-arts-crafts-music-and-more/
Are you the artistic type? Do you create art for others, either photography or paintings or any other item that the public needs to know about?
Here’s your opportunity to get attention on a site that receives literally thousands of views every single day. I’d like to say that describes my blog, but no. It’s John Scalzi’s “Whatever” blog site.
Scalzi is a science fiction author who has followers all over the world, and who at this time of year accepts submissions from writers and creative types who want to get their work in front of a wider audience. Go to the link above and get your name out there.
He explains the submission criteria in detail, so go. Tell him I sent you. That won’t help your chances of being accepted because John Scalzi has no idea who I am, but if he reads my name often enough he might just remember me next year when I have something to submit.
Good luck, and as always, Peace, people!
Doright Manor is built in such a way that four doors open onto our porch. There is set of French doors in the formal living, another from the den, and another from the master bedroom. Then there is a single door opening from the master bath directly across from the French doors in the den.
Since completing our covered/screened in porch project we’ve almost exclusively used the den doors to access our new seating area on the porch. This morning while sipping my coffee and watching squirrels cavort around the lake I decided to open the door to the master bath so the cats could easily access their litter box without having to go all the way around the house.
Our older girl, Scout, is totally chill about the new doorway. She’s sitting in one of the patio chairs like, “Yeah, I knew that door would open eventually….No biggie.”
But our younger baby, Patches, has had her mind blown. It’s like she’s discovered Narnia. Patches has run back and forth nonstop across the porch all morning to verify the door’s existence, stopping at intervals to meow a clear question, “What’s going on here?” There might be an expletive in there, but I’m not that fluent in Cat.
At some point she’ll run out of steam and questions. That’s when I’ll open the door onto the master bedroom. That will really blow her mind.
Peace, people!
Great thoughts this morning for thinking about the way we use and abuse our environment. Read moreat wordswewomenwrite.com
Praying for Eyebrowz 