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A place for poetry, prose, wordplay and ponderings.
About Me
- Nancy
- New Jersey, United States
- I'm a single, sometimes poet with great friends, great family, and plenty of laughter in my life. I love children's literature and puzzles and language and poetry.
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"The spirit of poetry combines the profundity of the philosopher and the child’s delight in bright pictures."
(Franz Grillparzer)
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August
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- Happy Blog Day! Tag, You're It!
- Quote of the Day, 8/31/06
- Quote of the Day, 8/30/06
- Tales of Horror (Scary Spiders)
- Words on Wednesday - Create-a-word Contest
- Best Juggling I've Ever Seen
- Quote of the Day, 8/29/06
- Brain Teaser
- Quote of the Day, 8/28/06
- Ray Bradbury and the Book-Signing
- Quote of the Day, 8/27/06
- Writing Challenge
- Quote of the Day, 8/26/06
- No Book's too Young for Me
- Start Fibbing!
- A Little Poetry for You (A.A. Milne)
- Quote of the Day, 8/25/06
- Jim... It's Too Late... We've Lost Pluto
- Quote of the Day, 8/24/06
- Pleasant Surprises II: Butterflies Dining
- Bad Guys + Bad Gals from Kids' Books
- He Sure Made Learning Fun
- Quote of the Day, 8/23/06
- Words on Wednesday - Supercalifragilisticexpialido...
- There Must be a Children's Book in This Story!
- Quote of the Day, 8/22/06
- Anne of Green Gables, Japan, Germany...
- Leave the Map, Take the Journey?
- Quote of the Day, 8/21/06
- Quote of the Day, 8/20/06
- But I Never Learned the First Mnemonic
- Quote of the Day, 8/19/06
- Go Away Ma, I'm Watching TV!
- A Little Poetry for You (W.H. Auden)
- Quote of the Day, 8/18/06
- 6th Carnival of Children's Literature is Up at Cas...
- Quote of the Day, 8/17/06
- Things You May Not Know About Chuck Norris
- Words on Wednesday - Word Squares
- A Child's Love of Reading
- Quote of the Day, 8/16/06
- Great Antagonists of Children's Literature
- Someone Else to Watch Your Language For You
- A Little Poetry for You (Robert Frost)
- Quote of the Day, 8/15/06
- Not Exactly West Side Story
- My 101st Post - Farewell to the Green
- Quote of the Day, 8/14/06
- Playing with Words - Symmetry
- Quote of the Day, 8/13/06
- NRKII Work - Magnetic Poetry in Action
- Quote of the Day, 8/12/06
- The Old Man and the ABCs
- More Encouragement to Write Poetry
- Rowling + King + Irving Event Now on Video at MSN
- Did J.K. Rowling Really Have the Best Shoes?
- Wanna Smile?
- Longest, Most Beautiful Sentence
- Quote of the Day, 8/11/06
- Name these Tunes
- Star Trek Life Lessons
- Quote of the Day, 8/10/06
- Name One Book...
- Davis Mega Maze Opens Today!
- Dolly-Books
- I'm Also Exactly 1/2 Cat 1/2 Dog and Only 12% Soci...
- Quote of the Day, 8/9/06
- Brain Teaser
- You Think You Can't Wait for Harry Potter to Get H...
- Ghost in the Machines, Still
- Quote of the Day, 8/8/06
- Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time
- Reality TV We Wish We Had
- Quote of the Day, 8/7/06
- Brain Test: Functioning at 40%, Even with Sympath...
- Mister Rogers' Neighborhood on DVD
- Quote of the Day, 8/6/06
- Quote of the Day, 8/5/06
- Fluorescent Magenta, an Update
- Quote of the Day, 8/4/06
- No, it's Play that FUNKY Music White Boy
- No Really, there is Nothing More Relaxing than Sai...
- I Read the First Holy Tango Poem and am HOOKED
- 3 Books from my Childhood I'd Still Recommend
- A Little Poetry for You (Walt Whitman)
- Quote of the Day, 8/3/06
- Stephen King, John Irving and J. K. Rowling
- The Night with King, Irving and Rowling
- Quote of the Day, 8/2/06
- Abuse of Language
- A Writing Challenge, answered
- Quote of the Day, 8/1/06
- A Little Poetry for You (Phil Rizzuto)
- More from Mr. Rogers
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2 comments:
This is fun - I think "plutonic" was my favorite of those I saw :)
Hadn't been to your site before - nice mix of things. Keep it up!
Cheers,
Thanks Louise! I'm glad I found your site as well. Hope you enjoyed your summer, and welcome back.
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