My mother, Nancy Elizabeth Page Lipscomb Holstad, died one year ago today on August 5, 2024 in Knoxville, Tennessee. Her funeral took place on August 11, several days later. Despite being nearly a century old, it was a bit of a shock as she lived alone in her own condo, had been slowing down but …
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Many thanks to Five Fleas Itchy Poetry for publishing 3 short pieces of mine on Sunday. One is a 7-word monoku, one is a three line absurdiku-type and the third is a short 5-line piece from my another diluted found pome series, so those who like CUT-UP technique and/or Found Poetry experiments might dig that. …
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I can't say enough good things about this book. It's not only a go-to resource for me, but it's virtually daily reading material. Though I've never really publicly discussed much of anything, my mother's family -- both maternal and paternal -- were prominent families related to a million other prominent families, as was so very …
Hi. July was a challenging month, and especially a time-challenging month. I didn't find time to write or post about nearly anything, and even though I got a lot of things published, I didn't even take/find the time to write my usual little blurb about many of them, or to even reblog from a magazine's …
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