|
| Home Log In Sign Up FAQ's Contact ProBlogs About ProBlogs |
|
616 Blog Posts Under This Category Now Displaying Page 16, Blog Posts 376 to 400 « Previous | Next » Page 1.. 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Category: Blogging Lizzie Borden---A Reenactment - CarolynCHolland(9,534)   Lizzy Borden took an ax, And gave her mother forty whacks. When she saw what she had done,Category: Blogging The Time is Now... - CarolynCHolland(9,534) The time is now…to overcome arachnophobia! Not because Halloween is coming with its myriad of spider decorations, but because I had a special guest this month. Rachney, as I dubbed this orb spider, presented me with a museum-style display of her life when she wove her web outside a window...Category: Blogging What Food Would You Reject? - CarolynCHolland(9,534) This piece was one of several submitted to a fair display from a former writers group. I interviewed friends and participants in a chat room for responses. WHAT FOOD WOULD YOU REJECT IF IT WERE THE LAST FOOD EARTH PROVIDED FOR YOUR SURVIVAL? The tentacles of our family's environmental interest...Category: Blogging THE SNITTY CAT - CarolynCHolland(9,534) It was a beautiful October day and I appreciated the need to meet my granddaughter, Dana, 8, at her school bus. My son Nolan and husband Monte had completed a path through the woods between our house and Dana’s house, and I enjoy the peace, calm and daily changes of nature I experience...Category: Blogging KUDZU BLACKOUTS - CarolynCHolland(9,534) Our family lived in Stone Mountain, Georgia (an Atlanta suburb) for three years in the 1980s. I was sole proprietor of a craft etc. company and wrote a booklet about a prolific southern plant, KUDZU, to accompany the craft line. Below are excerpts. ---NEWS BULLETIN!--- The southeastern section of...Category: Blogging THE THANKSGIVING TURKEY - CarolynCHolland(9,534) I found the perfect card for my granddaughter’s ninth birthday---one that will make her eyes roll. The front has a sepia picture of a girl whose hair, dress and boots are quite old fashioned. She is holding a platter with a small cooked turkey on it. Inside it says Happy Birthday You Turkey...Category: Blogging Tradition!!! Turducken??? - CarolynCHolland(9,534) Tradition! Our family is like many others during the holidays. We have traditions. For instance, a turkey adorns our Thanksgiving table, and often stuffed Cornish hens appear on our Christmas or New Years day menu. We also have another tradition---Thanksgiving and other holidays---are usually...Category: Blogging Better Dead Than Alive? - CarolynCHolland(9,534) It’s reputed that many persons are worth more dead than alive. Their insurance clears up their debts and offers survivors resources unavailable to them while the loved one remains alive. This seems true of residents in the Chinese Cemetery in Manila, the Philippines. There creature comforts...Category: Blogging Whose Season? - CarolynCHolland(9,534) Among the items in my files: a holiday skit I wrote in the 1970s while I was sole proprietor of the Holland Child Care Home (family child day care). SETTING: Children in a choir setting at a school are learning seasonal music. TEACHER: Good morning children. Today we’ll start by singing...Category: Blogging A Broken Leg at Christmas Time - CarolynCHolland(9,534) It was just before Christmas, 1983. My friend, Shirl, her husband Wayne and I were ushering at the Alliance Theater in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, for a production of The Music Man. We ushered at this theater regularly and at other smaller theaters occasionally. It was a way for the wife of a...Category: Blogging CRITTERS IN THE WALLS - CarolynCHolland(9,534) I co-wrote this poem with my three-year old granddaughter (Dana). One person critiqued it with the comment: Don’t you think this will scare children? Perhaps some might not like it, but considering that the most creative words came out of the mouth of a three-year old, I’m not...Category: Blogging The Twelve Days of Christmas - CarolynCHolland(9,534) One of my complaints about Christmas is it’s secularization, its evolution into a “holiday” to outdo gift-giving, overdo partying and optimize marketing, all hoopla that takes Christ out of Christmas. I attend church to celebrate the real meaning of Christmas, Christ’s...Category: Blogging My Christmas Letter - CarolynCHolland(9,534) Edited excerpts from my section of our family’s annual Christmas letter: Year 2006 included a “maternity watch,” for grandchild Marcus, son of Nolan and Tammy, born July 8. We arrived in Cleveland right after his birth. Marcus is a happy baby, has a big smile and lots of...Category: Blogging What Does the (Writing) Future Hold? - CarolynCHolland(9,534) What does the future hold? What surprises are in store for me in 2007? In lieu of a holistic view of the New Year, I’ll restrict my comments to the writing side of my life. But first, a review of 2006. For years I’ve pondered, sketched scenes and characters and reseaCategory: Blogging The Cat With the Calico Tail - CarolynCHolland(9,534)
Repeatedly I’m asked why the wooden cat sitting on my windowsill is painted so silly, having a gray and orange striped tail attached to its all-white body. A few years ago my artistic niece Debbie painted the craft item for me, using our cat as a model.
Category: Blogging Nothing on My Own - CarolynCHolland(9,534) I can do nothing on my own initiative. John 5:30a NAS As I sit and write, I must acknowledge those many persons who have contributed to the words I type in my laptop computer. It is true: I can do nothing on my own. To write, I needed teachers to show me how to form my letters so what I write...Category: Blogging What Happens to the Missing Socks? - CarolynCHolland(9,534) About the time Joe's submitted his item on sock darning (click on www.ProBlogs.com/beanerywriters in the category Joe's Writings) I came across the following piece on The Missing Socks. It seemed appropriate to post it at this time! (This piece won honorable in a writing competition at the St....Category: Blogging True Confessions of a Glass - CarolynCHolland(9,534) Perhaps everyone remembers their first writing that was published. In perusing my files, I came across mine---which I’d forgotten! I was a student at Erie County Technical Institute in Williamsville, New York, majoring in medical laboratory technology. Although I was good at English I...Category: Blogging These Cats Missed Their Blessing Service - CarolynCHolland(9,534) My neighbor Pet missed the annual event. I missed it too. My cat Gizmo and Pet’s five cats, Goober, Tiger, Swatze, Mindy Lou and Mandy Sue missed the event. We all missed the annual Blessing of the Pets in a nearby town. Co-sponsored by an Episcopal church and a Roman Catholic church, the...Category: Blogging REJECTION FROM A BAD-WRITING CONTEST! - CarolynCHolland(9,534) I found the writing below in my files. In 1987 I’d submitted it to a Pittsburgh newspaper’s “bad writing contest.” As life goes, the piece was rejected. Perhaps I’m not the best, but it’s evidence I’m also not the worst! The notes blatted skyward as the...Category: Blogging WHENTHEWINDBLOWSITBLOWSTWICE - beanerywriters(11,675) Kait is a 12-year old from New York State who writes both poetry and prose. The Beanery Online Literary Magazine is pleased to post her work. When the wind blows it blows twice …hard…and…harder… It ends where it starts, Category: Blogging THE UNICORN: MYTH OR REALITY? Part 2 of 2 Parts - beanerywriters(11,675) Part 1 of this writing on the unicorn is posted in the category Carolyn’s Writings. Folklore and legend provide numerous unicorn myths. In China, the K’I-lin was a gentle harbinger of good fortune and a symbol of longevity. The tip of his horn was fleshy, symbolic of goodness and... Category: Blogging WHAT? MARRY A PROSTITUTE, HOSEA ASKED GOD - CarolynCHolland(9,534) There are many interesting marriages in the Bible. Below is a skit based on an interview with Hosea about his marriage to a prostitute. It was moderated by Monte on a radio program in Connellsville, Pennsylvania several years ago. Monte: Today we welcome a special guest---a preacher and a prophet...Category: Blogging THE UNICORN: MYTH OR REALITY? - CarolynCHolland(9,534) Its beauty is beyond comprehension and it’s boundless strength prevents its capture, according to literature through the ages. Authors from many cultures affirm its existence yet there are those who claim the beast is merely a myth. Who could question the existence of such a universal...Category: Blogging THE REMINDER - beanerywriters(11,675) I have a basket of pine cones sitting on top of my file cabinet. The collection began through no particular intention of mine. One day shortly after I moved into my rooming unit, I was walking along the stepping stones that lead from the lot where I park my car when I noticed them. They and their... |
|
| Home | FAQ's | Categories | Blogging Guidelines | Recent Referrals | Terms of Use | Privacy | About ProBlogs | Contact ProBlogs |
| Copyright 2008 ProBlogs.com - All rights reserved. |
