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do you know where your children are

I awake with a start. Disoriented, I look for the clock. It’s not there. I shake my head for clarity and realize I’m on the couch. Did I fall asleep, and Laura came in too quietly? What time is it? I stumble to the kitchen and squint at the clock—3:30. […]

It’s 11:00. Do You Know Where Your Children Are?

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sexual harassment

With all of the talk about sexual harassment and abuse in the news, I would like to address this issue myself. I was a victim more than once of this type of abuse when I was young. The men were not billionaires or famous, just predators who thought they could […]

Thoughts on Sexual Harassment

anniversary poem

For thirty years,maybe more, I’ve been writingpoems galore. I wrote of how we metby chance and later of ourKitchen Dance. I wrote you are my“Better Half” you see, bringing out theBest of Me. I asked one time“Who am I to be loved by sucha special guy?” I wrote of travelsand […]

29th Anniversary Poem

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old age

When the phone rings at 2:30 a.m., it’s never good news. Monday morning, it was assisted living, saying that my in-law had fallen out of bed. An ambulance was called, and she was transported to the emergency room. I got there around 7:45 a.m. The ER was like walking into […]

Old Age

Damn it!

This is what the sock is REALLY thinking! Her feet are stinky, old and smellyWith corns, calluses and bunions.Why would I want to live there?I’m tired of smelling like onions! Some days they hurt and ache.Some days they make her sad!Her shoes no longer fit so good,Which really makes her […]

Damn It!

doll house

The Creation When my daughter, Laura, was five years old and step-daughter, Tracy, was seven, my then husband, Ted, made a doll house out of wood for each of them. The girls were allowed to choose what the interior design would be for their house. All three of them went […]

The Doll House

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a pair forever

Inspired by a lost sock. Please leave your comments below.  Read more by Hinda Blum.

A Pair

sock rebuttal

Sock, sock, sock, poor deserted sock. Everyone laments his missing mate. No one thinks about us, the many lonely knee-highs. We don’t get any respect. We are thrown individually and carelessly into a drawer without our mates. Where there are piles of different shades of tan, grey, black, sheer and […]

Sock Rebuttal

the sock's perspective on being lost

From the Sock’s Perspective

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