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Dared: To Paint a Wall Chartreuse

April 19, 2018 By Sandra Heska King Leave a Comment

Dared: To Paint a Wall Chartreuse

    Chartreuse. The color of your creativity. That phrase pinged around my head this morning. I wrote it on an index card, attributed it to L.L. Barkat, and pinned it to my bulletin board. But then I wondered, “Did she really say that—like that?” Laura Barkat has unofficially mentored me for several years. Last […]

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Commit Poetry: Committing Romeo (and other stuff)

April 13, 2018 By Sandra Heska King 2 Comments

Commit Poetry: Committing Romeo (and other stuff)

  Here we go again. I swear—I can’t seem to resist a good dare, especially during National Poetry Month and Tweetspeak’s “Year of Shakespeare.” This time, it’s to memorize three sections of Romeo and Juliet. Why these particular three sections? Why not ones I’m already familiar with like . . . Like what? Follow me to Tweetspeak […]

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Dared: A 30-Mile Bike Ride and a Request

February 16, 2018 By Sandra Heska King 2 Comments

Dared: A 30-Mile Bike Ride and a Request

  I’ve gone and dared myself again. Back in December my cardiologist told me I needed to lose some weight. Sigh… I know that, but he’s the first doctor who ever called me out. In the past I’ve heard things like, “No worries. We all gain a little as we get older.” I’m not sure […]

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Commit Poetry: Ozymandias, Breaking Bad, and a Duck

February 15, 2018 By Sandra Heska King Leave a Comment

Commit Poetry: Ozymandias, Breaking Bad, and a Duck

  I read a Facebook post on January 11 of this year announcing that it was the 200th anniversary of the day The Examiner published Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poem, “Ozymandias.” Ozzy who? I had to look up the pronunciation. Several folks say Ah-zee-mahn-dee-us. Others say Ah-zee-man-dee-us. But some say to fit the meter of the sonnet, the name […]

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Dared: Hobnobbing With Alligators – and other Adventures

January 17, 2018 By Sandra Heska King

Dared: Hobnobbing With Alligators – and other Adventures

  . . . Hosanna to the alligators in the highest: Glory be to their Maker. —Diana Woodcock, “In the Company of Alligators” We have lived here now for a whole year. Our neighborhood—carved from the Everglades—has zero lot lines and circle-around ponds (also known as lakes) while Surinam cherry hedges provide a bit of […]

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A Most Shocking #OneWord for 2018

January 8, 2018 By Sandra Heska King

A Most Shocking #OneWord for 2018

  The man, wearing a burgundy Florida State University t-shirt emblazoned with the words, “Lethal Simplicity,” nodded as we approached each other on a recent walk around the neighborhood. “And how are we today?” he asked. “Simply fine,” I responded and laughed as his golden retriever pulled him on past. I thought of Dorothy in […]

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Commit Poetry: Edgar Guest – and My Uncle Edgar

November 22, 2017 By Sandra Heska King

Commit Poetry: Edgar Guest – and My Uncle Edgar

For Edgar Gilmore with congratulations and the best wishes always of another Edgar. Sincerely, Edgar A. Guest June 17, 1939 That’s the inscription inside Edgar A. Guest says: It Can Be Done, a book I found when we were packing up to move. I called my dad the other day. “Who was Edgar Gilmore?” He didn’t know. […]

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The Metz Fire of 1908–and Maybe a Connection

October 12, 2017 By Sandra Heska King

The Metz Fire of 1908–and Maybe a Connection

    My grandmother once rode a train through the middle of a forest fire. I heard the story second-hand from my dad. The family settled in Alpena, he told me, and never returned home to Tower, Michigan. Grandma was four years old. She was born in 1904. Tower is about 15 miles west of […]

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Commit Poetry: Printing in My Heart’s Wax

August 17, 2017 By Sandra Heska King

Commit Poetry: Printing in My Heart’s Wax

  Although I’ve forgotten a lot about my high school years, I do recall a fear of poetry, and letting my eyes roam around the room or stare at my book while I mentally begged the teacher not to call on me in class. Yet if I really was so scared, why did I torture […]

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Commit Poetry: The Road Not Taken By Robert Frost

August 9, 2017 By Sandra Heska King

Commit Poetry: The Road Not Taken By Robert Frost

The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps […]

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