Posted by Editormum on 6 April 2013 in
News Commentary |
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This past week has been a very hard one. About ten days ago, my office was rocked by the shocking news that a former coworker had taken his own life. And on the day when I found out when my coworker’s memorial service would be, I was told that a very dear friend had died […]
Tags: challenges, Christianity, Family Life, news, pain, parenting, poetry, Religion, stress, suicide, True Stories
Posted by Editormum on 1 February 2010 in Uncategorized |
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That’s awesome, because I haven’t been able to write poetry since my marriage began to disintegrate in 1997. I have been waiting, sometimes impatiently, for the ability to return. Sometimes I was afraid it never would. Occasionally a phrase or two would come … but I could never get the fragments to gel into a […]
Tags: divorce, honesty, pain, poem, poetry, sonnet, True Stories
Posted by Editormum on 26 January 2010 in Uncategorized |
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This post is for my online friend Alan, aka Success Warrior. We met on The Blogging Network (now Blogit) and we both have moved on to our own, independent blogs. And to various life challenges. Alan is working on finishing his college degree. And his first assignment this semester is to write a sonnet. He asked, […]
Tags: Education, literature, meter, Milton, Petrarch, poem, poet, poetry, rhyme, Shakespeare, sonnet
Death and Suicide
This past week has been a very hard one. About ten days ago, my office was rocked by the shocking news that a former coworker had taken his own life. And on the day when I found out when my coworker’s memorial service would be, I was told that a very dear friend had died […]
Tags: challenges, Christianity, Family Life, news, pain, parenting, poetry, Religion, stress, suicide, True Stories