2024 April PAD Challenge: Day 10

The 2024 April Poem-A-Day Challenge. For today’s prompt, write a (blank) Better poem.   (Possible titles might include: “Be Better,” “Write Better,” “Wanting Better,” and/or “There’s Nothing Better.”  It’s Better with ButterOh, that lovely golden churnThe condiment for which I yearn.Its creamy, salty, melty touchOn my toast and buns and such,In my mouth and on my…

2024 April PAD Challenge: Day 9

Here’s the 2024 April Poem-A-Day Challenge. Today’s prompt is a two-for-Tuesday prompt. Write a love poem, and/or… Write an anti-love poem. Love or Not?He loves me. He loves me not?I sin. I don’t do as I ought.But on the cross, He says He bought.Salvation’s forgiveness that I sought.I love Him. How can I show it?I…

2024 April PAD Challenge: Day 7

Write a poem every day of April with the 2024 April Poem-A-Day Challenge. For today’s prompt, write a luck poem…good or bad.   Luck or No!Luck, luck,A jack-buck’s foot.A leaf of fourTwo knocks on wood.Salt thrown backFingers crossedA copper pennyBon chance!All for naughtOr so I thoughtMy head is totteryI won the lottery!

BOOK REVIEW – Daddy-Long-Legs

By Jean Webster (Author), Jo Karabasz (Narrator), SAGA Egmont (Publisher) An Audiobook Review Such a sweet story! It is simply chapters of letters that orphan Judy Abbot writes to her unnamed benefactor, who found her in an orphanage and paid for her college education after reading a simple humorous short story she wrote. The only stipulation was that she write…

2024 April PAD Challenge: Day 6

Write a poem every day of April with the 2024 April Poem-A-Day Challenge. For today’s prompt, write a minimum poem.  (Some people only do the minimum; others like to pay the minimum. A few earn a minimum wage.  Kids had to reach a minimum height to ride.)    To meThe minimum I can doWrite one…

BOOK REVIEW – Mr. Monk Goes to Germany

By Lee Goldberg (Author), Angela Brazil (Narrator), Blackstone Audio, Inc. (Publisher) An audiobook review Two different Monks! I’d never read that Adrian Monk turned into “The Monkster” when he took his phobia-calming drug before flying. It was hilarious. It was also interesting to see how he solved murders as Mr. Monk, a consultant to the San Francisco Police Department, and…

2024 April PAD Challenge: Day 5

This is the 17th annual April Poem-A-Day Challenge on Writer’s Digest Day 5 – Take the phrase “Tell (blank),” replace the blank with a new word or phrase, make the new phrase the title of your poem, and then, write your poem. I.E. “Tell It Like It Is.”   TELL OF HIS SALVATION FROM DAY TO DAY…