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My friend, Becky, who writes the blog, *Becky Povich: Writer - Journalist - Humorist* , passed on to me the Creative Writer Blogger Award.  Thank you, Becky!  This award encourages writers to use their "creative license," if you will.   Becky is also having a giveaway contest on her blog right now if you'd like to enter.  Please visit this post to find out more about it, but hurry because she will be choosing the winner after midnight on March 31st. Anyway for this meme, according to the rules, I am to list seven wild or wacky tidbits about myself, at least one of which is true.   So this is my list.  It is up to you to decide which ones are true and which ones are outright lies and products of my creative license. 1.  I once crashed a moped I was riding full speed into a lilac bush. 2.  I can speak four languages fluently. 3.  I have ridden in the rumble seat of an antique car on numerous occasions. 4.  I was once kissed by Harry Chapi...

 Happiness Early morning quiet, a lemony-tangerine  sunrise surprise, orange pekoe  steeping in a cup, you watching me,  with soft brown eyes. You nuzzling my neck. (if only in my mind) Your words that make me laugh, your words that are kind  lift me up like a curtain   in a warm spring breeze. I know that you care. Your presence is there. Feelings I have for you  make me weak   in the knees.    *   *   *   *   * The poem above is my response to a tag from my good friend, Michelle, who writes the blog, Crow's Feet . She tagged me with the Happy 101 meme.  For this meme, I was supposed to list ten things that make me happy.  Instead of a list, I decided to put my thoughts into a poem. If you'd like to write about the things that make you happy and continue this meme, please consider yourself tagged by me and take the logo above back with you to post on your blog.

My dear friend, Graciel, who writes the blog, Evenstar Art , has tagged me for a photo meme, and I have taken up her challenge.  These are the rules of the meme: 1. Open your first photo folder. 2. Scroll down to your 10th photo. 3. Post the photo and the story behind it. 4. Tag 5 people to play along.   My tenth photo happened to be a picture I took in my front yard of a dragonfly sitting on a green maple tree leaf.  Obviously, this photo was taken during the summer.     You won't see ANY leaves outside in my yard right now--especially not green ones hanging on a tree.  You might find an old, dried, shriveled-up, brown one, but you'd have to dig for it.  We woke up this morning to two more inches of new snow   from over night last night.  It is definitely not summer out there, but anyway, back to the dragonfly picture. I have no real story to tell about the picture, so I wrote a poem to go along with it. I hope you enjoy it....

Dorothy at Counting My Blessings blog has tagged me for a #5 photo meme. Here are the rules: open a document or file folder, click on the fifth folder and then the fifth photo. Post the photo and describe it. Then tag 5 other bloggers. I'm going to break the rules a bit by not tagging anyone specifically. However, if you are reading this and would like to take on this meme for your blog, by all means, help yourself. Let me know if you do, and I will come see what photo ends up being your post. The photo above was the #5 for me. It was taken in the fall of 2007 of a tree in my neighborhood. The leaves were changing colors, and I was out for a walk with my camera in hand. I saw this tree and just thought it was amazingly beautiful. It looked like it was almost literally "on fire" with all the reds, oranges, and yellows that were blazing in it. I'm glad that this happened to be the #5 in the folder for me. I could use a little warmth from the "fire" in...

I was tagged by Tink at Memories and Random Thoughts for the following list of 44 questions. If you have time, stop by Tink's blog to say hello to her and see her answers to these questions. Learn 44 things about your friends, and let them learn 44 things about you! If you would like to pick up this tag and post it on your blog, be my guest! 1. Do you like bleu cheese? Not too much. However, I might like BLUE cheese if it were really cream cheese that has been made into cream cheese frosting with blue food coloring in it and used to frost a CAKE! You all already know that I like cake . 2. Have you ever smoked? No, I haven't. 3. Do you own a gun? Yes, I have a cookie shooter/cake icing gun. You know the ones with a tube you fill up with cookie dough or cake icing and then turn the handle and it squirts out little star or flower shaped cookies or a fancy squiggle design of icing to frost a cake with. What? Why are you looking at me like that? Oh. You mean a gun li...