Aboard the pirate ship: part two It was late at night, and, on board the pirate ship, all of the sailors had eaten their food and had enjoyed many tastes of the purloined honey and jam. The entire crew had celebrated with jugs of something unidentifiable and alcoholic and surely full of rum, which made […]
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Today, I am sharing images of things that live so beautifully that you can’t help but notice them. When I was much, much younger, I was afraid of bees, probably because I didn’t know what would cause them to sting. For the same reason, I was afraid of balloons because the popping hurt my ears,
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Lately, I’ve seen bald eagles flying around. And, through pair of binoculars, I’ve seen an eagle’s nest. It’s hard to see, though. I’d get a better view through a spotting scope. Hence, I haven’t tried taking pictures of eagles. Speaking about eagles, they have very keen eyesight. I wish I could be an eagle so
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In the days when Bearnacle Bear was dreaming of the sea, a Bearish pirate captain came on shore and promised the adventure of a lifetime to young bears. Bearnacle begged his parents to let him go but his father looked skeptical. “No,” he said. “Something isn’t right here.” No matter how much little Bearnacle begged,
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When I was a kid, the highest praise I could possibly be given by my dad was that I was “perincon.” If you were perincon, you knew what you wanted and you had an idea of how to make that a reality. You were persistent, consistent, and insistent all at the same time. I feel
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April is National Poetry Month. So, for this blog post, I am writing a four-stanza quatrain based on the word that the Random Word Generator has chosen for me. Today’s letter is H, and the word is “heat.” Each stanza has four lines, and the format is an envelope stanza, with an ABBA rhyme pattern.
Approximately half a million people came to Western New York to see the eclipse. I was one of many who had out-of-town family coming to visit us and to see a once-in-a-life time (or at least, a once-in-a-generation) event. But the weather forecast was not looking good. It was looking like it was going to
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Tomorrow, I’m going off with my family in pursuit of an eclipse. We need to chase it down because it’s not looking promising here in Western New York. The weather forecast, as of 10:32 EDT, is for cloudy conditions all day. We will be headed west and it will be an adventure to find a
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There was once a bear who sailed the seven seas. He became friends with the Great Sea Monster, who was the only one of his species remaining after the Terrible Sea Wars in years past. At that time, there were many sea monsters and there were giant reptiles that looked like dragons, and they were
I went back to my friend, the Random Word Generator, and let it choose a D word for me. In its infinite wisdom or what I’d like to imagine to be its infinite wisdom, it chose this lovely word for me. I wondered how I might express “delicate” and searched online for an image that