Tag: kathryn esplin-oleski
member name: Kathryn Esplin-Oleski
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April 04, 2007 12:31 PM EDT --
This was inspired by Ed Nudelman's How to Write a Poem. I'd read it just before going to bed. I could not sleep, Instead, this is what happened. Honestly, these thoughts just erupted into my brain, . . .
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July 04, 2007 09:44 AM EDT --
Today, July 4th - I will be Featuring the strongest of articles that relate to a holiday. Not just Independence Day, USA - but Canada Day, any National Holiday, or any other holiday, anywhere, of your . . .
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May 28, 2008 07:29 PM EDT --
Involuntary Solitude
by Douglas Gilbert
Woman Child (poem for my daughter)
by Cheryl W.
Habitat, Habitat, Have to Have a Habitat . . .
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February 13, 2006 12:11 PM EST --
Doctor, it's just a game. We choose someone who will get the rush and we press her against a wall and then we use a bag, a tie, a belt, or even a scarf and tie it around her neck. And then we choke . . .
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February 26, 2006 02:17 AM EST --
When I was five, my grandfather was six feet tall, in a ten-gallon hat and spurs. He was a sheep man, a livestock broker. When the trains came in, he would go down to the livestock yard to see the sheep. . . .
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March 04, 2006 01:09 AM EST --
Teen boy wears low-slung pants, no belt, low enough so boxers show, no socks, but shoes down on the heel.
Teen boy wears a tee with his father's dress shirt, unbuttoned. He sometimes wears . . .
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March 12, 2006 02:33 PM EST --
Apologies to L. Frank Baum.
So Dorothy and Toto stood around the giant room and waited on tenterhooks for the great wizard of Bog.
Dorothy wore her ruby slippers, and had not met Glynda, the good . . .
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April 17, 2006 08:14 PM EDT --
A few minutes ago, I sent an invitation for everyone in my network to join my new group, Gatherholics. The number of member is climbing rapidly.
THAT just goes to show...
Since Gather now . . .
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February 24, 2006 01:21 AM EST --
Coming home from the hospital that night in '93, something was terribly wrong. It wasn't just the pain or the crushing mental fatigue, not just the room spinning around, and not just the sick feeling . . .
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February 27, 2006 08:05 PM EST --
I drove my son to Bowdoin College today on a fast road, cold and windy. I don't like small New England colleges. I prefer universities in cities; they're vibrant, alive to being young.
It was . . .
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March 03, 2006 01:18 AM EST --
With apologies to Judith Viorst.
On Monday, it was baby's birthday, and baby, being a blanket, needed a cake. So Muffin and I made a cake, but Teeden dumped mayonnaise and honey all over it, then . . .
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April 17, 2006 06:38 PM EDT --
BAM! Emeril Legacy is here in the studio with us, to demonstrate his famous cheese souffle, blender style. Photo included.
Let's join Emeril.
Blender Souffle
Preheat oven to 325 degrees. BAM !
Dice . . .
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May 02, 2006 12:18 PM EDT --
My great-grandfather had six wives. At the same time. And 44 children.
My other great-grandfathers only had 2 wives. At the same time. Yes, that means my ancestors were Mormon, when Mormons were polygamous. . . .
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April 26, 2007 04:22 AM EDT --
The Two Word Challenge for the week that began on Sunday, April 22, is "something borrowed."
I borrowed this phrase from the old saying oft told to prospective brides:
"something . . .
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December 26, 2007 07:28 PM EST --
Featured today in Wednesday Writing Essentials:
Wednesday Writing Essentials- Christmas Around the World-A Jamaican Christmas
by ELLEN B. |
December 26, 2007 08:54 PM EST -- What . . .
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March 07, 2006 02:19 AM EST --
Apologies to Lewis Carroll.
With an oomph, a squirge, and a karate kick of her leg, Alice fell up the rabbit hole and into Blunderland.
"I've been here, before," Alice said.
"No, . . .
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June 25, 2006 03:48 PM EDT --
"Unofficial Gatherholics" is a moderated group for people writing about addiction to Gather...A not uncommon phenomenon. It is also for images.
Sometimes people send articles to Unofficial . . .
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May 02, 2006 07:58 PM EDT --
When my father died, my stepmother decided not to support me anymore. And she disinherited me. Not that there was much, but she does own an opulent home. The worst part of this was that I had . . .
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January 09, 2008 05:12 PM EST --
Why Doesn´t He Awaken?
by John F Walter |
For my dear friend C. Brian Maddox, distinguished writer, contemporarythinker, successful public relations . . .
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January 18, 2006 12:05 PM EST --
My mother had a beautiful soul and she was schizophrenic.
In labeling her, I have done her an injustice. I notice now that doctors tend to write: that someone "carries a diagnosis of schizophrenia" . . .
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