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* In honor of Meredith Haynes, who has been a part of Ronovan’s Weekly Haiku Challenge since the very beginning, this week’s prompt words are SILENT and LOUD. * Please visit this week’s post at Challenge # 52 * * * Screaming Eerily silent Muted voices in my mind Scream louder than words Wendy Anne […]

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    I think my fear of spiders came from my mum; maybe I saw the way she reacted to them and believed that there was something to fear. I don’t know if her fear was also ‘inherited’ as well. At one point, somebody attempted to get me to accept them for the useful and mostly […]

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  Click here for this week’s Writer’s Quote Wednesday       PERCEPTION IS REALITY I can vividly remember stumbling out of a darkened cinema near London’s Piccadilly Circus some thirty-plus years ago, the two of us coming to a sudden stop as the bright lights, the city sounds, and the suffocatingly clammy warmth of […]

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I found a quote this week that just about says it all for me. It’s from Ursula K. Le Guin, who wrote a book called ‘The Lathe of Heaven’ which my youngest daughter has been metaphorically smacking me over the head with for the last few years. OK, darlin’, now I’ve seen this quote I […]

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  Several years ago, my good friend Bruce told me that I was finally going to get to meet her mother. She was dropping by to pick up some crystals Bruce had bought for her. In case you’re wondering, I did ask Bruce if, by any chance, she had been named after a family member […]