Describe your most ideal day from beginning to end.
Daily writing prompt
I love to read and write, and organize my days to support these goals. Rest, work in the kitchen and around the house, always learning. Grateful older years.
Read and Write
Category: Literacy
Books and Libraries
What would you do if you won the lottery?
Daily writing prompt
Many important ways to help and encourage. For this site, I think about literacy programs, and books for all ages. And good to support libraries in general.
B eautiful way to
O pen hearts and
O pen minds to
K now new stories and
S ongs
BOOKS
books to read
What books do you want to read?
Daily Prompt
I do not remember learning how to read, but remember well the wonder of books, libraries, and gradually growing my own collection. I read the Bible, poetry books and journals. novels, and memoirs. Examples of authors are Jan Karon, Luci Shaw, and Ted Kooser. Many wonderful writers I could mention!
small home library
books and journals
to read at different times
some to reread
and some to give away
used books
new for me
light on old
and new leaves
of a house plant
Library Poems
L ove of literature
I nspires countless
B eautiful hours of
R eading many
A uthors, and sometimes
R ereading beloved books
Y early
LIBRARY
Published here first on August 23, 2014.
And published by WestWard Quarterly, The Magazine of Family Reading, Fall 2018.
small home library
books and journals
to read at different times
some to reread
and some to give away
October 19, 2022
autumn in the air
young people
open doors for me
at the library
Published here first on July 25, 2013.
Libraries
Name an attraction or town close to home that you still haven’t got around to visiting.
Daily Prompt
Mead Public Library is in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. I hope to visit again.
There is a Mead Public Library Blog.
time with old friends
time with old friends
poems in a journal
from years ago
I think of bulletin boards in many places. This haiku might be nice to share in a nursing home and/or library, for example. Reprinted from a post on February 4, 2014.
Daily Prompt: January 20, 2023
If you could un-invent something, what would it be?
Daily Prompt
Although I would not “un-invent” emails,
some handwritten cards are nice too.
Poems For Bulletin Boards 