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Like a sock in a wrong drawer, being overlooked and sometimes pushed around for no other reason than not matching.
Tag: <span>women</span>
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Angie had called in advance. I sent the dogs outside when I heard her park in the driveway. A moment later, a woman very close to my age came in and introduced herself.
between you and me
how desperately
how it aches
how desperately it aches between you and me
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I cannot recall a time in my life when I was allowed to do nothing or very little. Of course, I had resting periods, vacations, and holidays over the years but as most women know, we never really rest. There is always something to do.
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I knew I would have extra time on my hands during recovery and I decided to buy three books/booklets from fellow bloggers?
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This question is often found in fairy tales or stories, and the answer is usually associated with something in return. Just like most of us, I have often thought about the three wishes. As a young child, I hoped for a mountain of ice cream and, of course, world peace, because that’s the answer you are supposed to give. (Worldpeace, not the ice cream.)
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I had to laugh when I read today’s prompt. Like the joke about traffic, when the truck driver on the radio shouts, “There is a car driving in the wrong direction,” and the other one answers, “What do you mean ONE, hundreds are driving in the wrong direction.”
(“No brass bands. No speeches. Instead a still, silent, effective influence.”—Anti-suffrage speech.)
We are waging—can you doubt it?
A campaign so calm and still
No one knows a thing about it
And we hope they never will.
No one knows
What we oppose,
And we hope they never will.
Our way of life
has hardly changed
since a wheel first
whetted a knife.
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I recently read a quote from the actor Denzel Washington, which most likely does not come from him at all. It doesn’t matter who said or wrote that, but he or she speaks from my heart. “With so many things coming back in style, I can’t wait until morals, respect, and intelligence become a trend again.”