Question of the Day What is your favorite kitchen smell? Ok, a slightly weird question, I guess. The other day I was baking brownies. Not the homemade 3 cups of sugar kind but a mix, called Cookie Brownie which mixes cookie dough on top of brownie mix and they are SOOOO good. The smell was … Continue reading
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Haiku No. 443: Waking
Morning sun wakes me The only sound your soft breathing As you draw me close By Deborah E. Dayen
Question of the Moment: How Do You Start Your Day?
How do you wake up in the morning? Are you “up and at ‘em”, ready to get stuff done? Do you wake just long enough to get showered, dressed, etc before leaving for work? Or, conversely do you need to take the time to move into your day? When I worked, I left for work … Continue reading
Exceptional
Evening settles in Daylight has dwindled A bottle of wine, Sipped while cards shuffled Sits on the table, Empty. Dinner has been cooked, Served, And cleaned up While a thunderstorm shook the ground outside And lightning streaked across the sky And rain pummeled the lake outside the windows, While we talked And laughed And ate … Continue reading
Question of the Day: What Are The Benefits of Getting Older
Question of the day: What are the benefits of aging? I was thinking this morning about how aging is hard on the body, and made a list of all the complaints I had. When I ran out of things for the list, I read it and thought, “Man what a whiny cry baby you are!” … Continue reading
Haiku No. 442: Together
We drifted through space Each finding the other’s hand No longer alone By Deborah E. Dayen Picture from Shutterstock via Google Images
Haiku No. 441: Caught
Lost in emotion Worlds collide and then embrace Caught in the middle By Deborah E. Dayen Picture from Google Images
A Look Back (And FIB No. 16)
A Long Twisty Road brought me To this place, with you The twisty road is behind me It’s been awhile since I was up in the middle of the night, typing. I woke, feeling wide awake, my man snoring gently beside me. I don’t know why but I began to think about how I got … Continue reading
Haiku No. 440: Beginning
Softly rolling hills Beckon in soothing waves Begin the journey By Deborah E. Dayen Picture from Google Images
The Gecko Crawl
The mascot for my little Florida beach town is a gecko. I suppose because the alliteration with Gulfport is good, but also because geckos are everywhere here, and we all like them because they eat bugs. So they thrive, and anything that thrives on eating bugs is good, in my book. There are wildly brightly … Continue reading
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