Monday, September 23, 2013

Editing Africa

For those of you who read this blog back when I regularly contributed excerpts about my travels through Africa, I want to thank you today. Just as it was a long process to write the story, it is a long process to edit it. It has all taken much longer than the original 10 months that I was gone for, but every time I step back into the tale, I am transported. And the encouragement that I received from you then, feeds me every time I push words around on the page today.

So, I just wanted to let you know that I have not given up the tale. There are 244 pages and counting, with new subtitles and potential pictures to be added. I am determined to see this project through to the end once more. I wandered through Zimbabwe today celebrating birthdays with friends, adding a little here and taking a little away there. And YOU my readers were with me.

Thanks.

And now, back to finishing the task at hand - dinner!

Add the pasta, and this will be a tasty treat

Tuesday, September 17, 2013

The Making of a Beet Salad

Stir beets slow
rooaaasssstttttiiiiiinnnnnnngggggggg
in oven Hot while
quinoa bubbles pop
don't stop until
a soft
com-
bin-
a-tion
they transform in
to
dinner salad
seasonal
delicacies
in tummies

yumm...

  Now, where did that chicken go?

Thursday, July 25, 2013

Sunflower

cool breeze
autumn sneeze
breath torn asunder
at the end of summer
as a burnt umber face cries
to look at the skies
but all i can see
is the beginning of allergies
no cry for frost yet
i'll pay my dues, plenty wet
from the window seat indoors
with tissues & tinctures
and a memory of summer fun
and your beauty, hard won

Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Toad's Revenge


Cruelty to animals,
licking at their back?
Will he turn into prince so fine
or have jowls that just go slack?

The garden that he picked so fair
now inhabited by giants
that pluck his regal countenance
from quiet dreams in silence


Lo, the wrath he wrecks on those
who dare to look and see
This toady responds by releasing full
a bladder full of pee

Ewww,
toad pee!
on my hands
all over ME!


Shows you right 
for disturbing life
Revenge so fine
from our local wildlife

Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Wherefore Art Thou Spring?

Wherefore art thou Spring?

Snow has clung to the air
despite a change in calender
and no alter to the attire 
of mine

Search high and lo
and still the temperatures flow
below that damned zero
I whine...

But as every good Canadian knows
Mother Nature bends to no credos
despite pleading and heart-wrenched outflows
now consigned

Spring will arrive
all in good time to revive
our blessed souls once more to thrive
please be kind... 

~sunshine~

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