Tag: cats
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Sometimes I Take Photos of Other People’s Cats: Slice of Life 3/31 #sol20
There are 4,500 photos of cats on my phone. Literally. They are mostly my cats, of course, and I take photos of them when the light is good or when they are doing something funny or when they are in a place I don’t expect them to be or when they’re snuggling together just too…
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Possibilities: A Quickwrite Slice of Life #sol19
Back to school means back to more intentional work in my writer’s notebook. I’ve been sharing two or three different poems a day and writing alongside them with my students. Wislawa Szymborska’s “Possibilities” has been one particularly rich text to write beside. I’ve gotten the seeds for several possible pieces from this poem. But this…
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Magnet Poetry: Playing with Poetry #playingwithpoetryNPM 30/30 #sol19
This month, I’m tagging along with Christie, Margaret, Jone, Mary Lee, and other writers to play with poetry for National Poetry Writing Month. I’ll be creating poems using haikubes, metaphor dice, magnet poetry, paint chips and anything else that catches my fancy. I’m always sad when the end of March comes around, and it’s time to stop the daily slice. But…
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Magnet Poetry: Playing with Poetry #playingwithpoetryNPM 23/30 #sol19
This month, I’m tagging along with Christie, Margaret, Jone, Mary Lee, and other writers to play with poetry for National Poetry Writing Month. I’ll be creating poems using haikubes, metaphor dice, magnet poetry, paint chips and anything else that catches my fancy. I liked my Poetry Mega Set Word Magnets so much that I decided to order two more kits: Cat…
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Haikube Poetry: Playing with Poetry #playingwithpoetryNPM 10/30
This month, I’m tagging along with Christie, Margaret, Jone, Mary Lee, and other writers to play with poetry for National Poetry Writing Month. I’ll be creating poems using haikubes, metaphor dice, magnet poetry, paint chips and anything else that catches my fancy. Today, I tried haikubes for the first time. The first words I saw were parallel and journey, so I…
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Book Spine Poetry: Playing with Poetry #playingwithpoetryNPM 7/31
This month, I’m tagging along with Christie, Margaret, Jone, Mary Lee, and other writers to play with poetry for National Poetry Writing Month. I’ll be creating poems using haikubes, metaphor dice, magnet poetry, paint chips and anything else that catches my fancy. Today, I tried a book spine haiku. We have had several days of spring weather, and the cats…
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Sleeping Arrangements: Slice of Life #sol19 6/31
Smudge is the first to arrive and the last to leave. He waits for me to lift the blanket, then he darts underneath, circles once, and curls into a crescent with four cold feet pressed to my side. Then comes Toast, whose soft belly drapes across my throat like a scarf. Her purrs are light…
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Cat Photos Plus Cat Haiku: Haiku-A-Day Challenge #11 #sol18
Image CC-BY-NC-ND-2.0 Steve Rotman on Flickr.com I’m joining Trina Haase at Trinarrative for a daily haiku challenge in December. When you have nine cats and an iPhone, you take a lot of cat photos. I know some people are really organized and sort their photos into albums. I don’t, which drives my iPhone crazy, so…
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Introducing Oliver: Slice of Life #sol18
Believe it or not, I wasn’t looking for another cat. We had eight already, and yes, they’re all indoor cats, and even though I really, really, REALLY love cats, even I thought that eight was enough. Mostly I worried about upsetting the delicate balance of the social order by adding more. I think that cats…
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The Problem with Travel: Slice of Life #sol18
The problem with travel, of course, is that cats must stay home. I know there are cats who travel, because I’ve read the books. Peter Gethers’s The Cat Who Went to Paris, for example, which I read when it was first published in 1992, convinced me I needed a traveling cat, preferably a Scottish fold.…
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