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Category Archives: The Black Dog
The Black Dog, A Palm Tree And A Flash Fiction
Palm trees are so perfectly designed to survive powerful tropical storms, that even when bent so low as to touch the ground, they straighten up as the storm passes through, stronger than they were before. I was nineteen when I … Continue reading
WPC: Object – Broken Tree
A day late and a dollar short, ha! Story of my life. Well, better to show up than not at all and here it is Tuesday but as promised, with my take on this week’s Weekly Photo Challenge theme which … Continue reading
Posted in Photos, The Black Dog, Weekly Photo Challenge, Writing
Tagged Handwriting, Photo of Tree, Poem, Poetry, postaday, Storms, The Black Dog, Weekly Photo Challenge, Writers, writing, Writing Fiction
63 Comments
‘The Power’ – How Has Writing Changed You?
Living as I do now in this ‘Writer’s World’ has changed my life irrevocably. Until now, I had never really paid much attention to the way I used to write when I was younger, how the need to furiously scribble … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Poems, The Black Dog, Writing
Tagged Airmail Letters, Blogging, Creative writing, Darkness, depression, Despair, Expression, Freedom, God, Journals, Letter Writing, Poem, The Black Dog, Writer's World, Writers, writing, Writing Journey
81 Comments
Champagne It Is Then!
With all the dreary, gloomy news about these days, one bad thing after another it seems, (including, but not limited to, the perils of growing older – that is, for anyone over 30 – ), how wonderful it is to … Continue reading
Posted in The Black Dog, Uncategorized
Tagged Ageing, Celebrate, Champagne, Good News, Happy memories, Health Benefits, Melancholia, middle age, Short Term Memory Loss
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Amazing Grace – Not Just Any Robin
“Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me; I once was lost but now am found, was blind but now I see.” How beautiful and powerful those words ring out, you’ve got to love that old-time religion. Back in … Continue reading
Posted in Childhood Memories, Family Life, My California, Sweet Robin, The Black Dog
Tagged Amazing Grace, California, Children, English Robins, hope, Hummingbirds, loss, nature, Somerset, Sweet Robin
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