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Carrot Ranch: Ninety-nine Word Flash Fiction

Posted on September 23, 2018 by

Dayton Peace Accord: World Affair Participants began to line up for the parade. For some nations, there were only one or two participants; other contingents had larger groups, but all were dressed in their various ethnic costumes. Voices grew louder … Continue reading →

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BP: A Sense of Place: The Mountains

Posted on September 21, 2018 by

The Haiku Foundation continues their weekly column, A Sense of Place, with the setting changing to the mountains. K.J. Munro still selects haiku based on the particular sense she is highlighting. For this series, she went with sight, hearing, taste, … Continue reading →

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The Best Laid Plans of Mice and Men…

Posted on September 5, 2018 by

…gang aft agley. Borrowing the line from Robert Burns’ poem ‘To a Mouse’ just about sums up this pedometer geek’s goal to complete the thousand miles by the end of August. On August 22nd, plans were derailed when this pedometer … Continue reading →

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Carrot Ranch: a 99-word Flash Fiction

Posted on August 20, 2018 by

Elgin: A Cross-county Rival In the early sixties, it became common for smaller schools to consolidate into larger schools. My county was no different with several schools opting to consolidate. Not my school, however; our district chose otherwise! Elgin became … Continue reading →

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The Journey of a Thousand Miles (July)

Posted on August 18, 2018 by

…begins with a single step. In July, this pedometer geek logged 328,088 steps on the Fitbit. This may be the highest single month total since I first began keeping track on spreadsheets (although I will admit that I didn’t check). … Continue reading →

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Carrot Ranch: Flash Fiction 8/11/2018

Posted on August 11, 2018 by

Lone Ranger Going crazy, our cat saw something in the dark that she felt shouldn’t be in her territory. At first, I couldn’t see anything, but her night vision is better. But then I noticed the glint of dark eyes … Continue reading →

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The Journey of a 1000 miles…(June ’18)

Posted on July 28, 2018 by

…begins with a single step. In June, this pedometer geek added 119 miles to the total of the goal of a thousand miles.  Since ahead of last year’s goal of walking a thousand miles, this pedometer geek/urban hiker plans on … Continue reading →

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