Navigating The South-Personal History Counts
The cultural differences between far North frontier country and Southern deep roots would throw anybody into shock. The precipitator of this condition of shock may lie in the fact that many in the...
View ArticleMaking the Most of Memories
Memoir is making a comeback as most editors can tell you. It isn’t just the big publishers who’re trolling for good pages of memories. Magazines are just as interested in finding passages from one...
View ArticleSaving Purpose for Later
For those who don’t belong to BlogHer with its millions of women bloggers and writers, take the time to investigate the network, or risk always wondering what you’ve missed. Me? I’m taking the...
View ArticleCousins—Who Are They?
Most people have cousins, kissing or otherwise. But, who are these people who aren’t part of your nuclear family but who are part of your history, some quite close to you. Like many, I have tons of...
View ArticleChasing Away Sorrow
This entire month of blog challenge, dealing with family, led me to yesterday, today, and tomorrow. Obvious, I know. I knew that at some point I was going to have to speak seriously about my mother,...
View ArticleKitchen: Saying Goodbye Is Hard
Goodbye WordleBy: Meena Rose A Memory Found: A Promise to Never Forget By: Meena Rose With a heavy sigh, I sat down on my bed and rested my head upon knees tucked close to my chest. Raging against the...
View ArticlePrompted Memories
At Poetic Asides, Robert Lee Brewer wants us to explore memories: ours, someone else’s, or a lost memory. 0912-1094 Moonlight over the forest (Photo credit: Leo-Avalon) Moonlit Memories By: Meena Rose...
View ArticleNovember PAD 2012 – Day 17
Over at PAD today, the prompt was to come up with a how to poem. What would you write a how to on? Something you excel in? Something you wish someone else did for you? Or a public service announcement...
View ArticlePoetry 365: The Tanoor
The Tanoor By: Meena Rose Tonight, I sit by my fireplace And I’ve let the flames draw me in; That warmth, it lulls me; Part dream, part memory. My grandmother and her gentle laugh; A face that forever...
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