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Haiku & Other Poetry, Random Rants, tutto e niente

Family Share

Tina Stewart Brakebill

The subject for today’s JusJoJan is FAMILY.

Love ’em but they drive me crazy. Yep–that’s my people.

if they are too close

but also too far away

that is family

And while we’re on the subject of family, let’s do some sharing …

Di is our host for SYW

Here are this week’s questions:

1. Who is your oldest living relative (aunt, grandparent etc)?

My grandma (mom’s mom) will be 104 this year. 

2. How often do you visit them or is distance a factor?

She lives on the other side of the U.S. from me, so (before COVID) I’d see her a couple of times a year and about once a year in the last couple of years. 


3. Have any of your family lived to be 100?

G’ma is the only one (so far) but her baby sister was in her 90s when she passed. 


4. Would you like to celebrate your 100th birthday?

Maybe-if I’m as cool as my 103 year old grandmother!

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Flash Fiction, tutto e niente

Karen v. Karen

Tina Stewart Brakebill

“If only there were more.”

“More what Aunt Karen?”

Glaring out the window, she pressed record before declaring “More people like me. Patriotic citizens. People who care about what’s happening to this country.”

“He’s just cleaning the windows. Why are you recording him?” I hadn’t seen her in years but I steeled myself for the nonsense that I imagined was about to come out of her mouth.

“I’m not. I’m recording that women hassling him. Now be a good boy and open the window so I can tell her to go to hell before I post this.”

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Thanks to Putting My Feet in the Dirt for a great opening line (if only there were more) and to Rochelle’s Friday Fictioners for the photo inspiration.

“We but mirror the world. All the tendencies present in the outer world are to be found in the world of our body. If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. This is the divine mystery supreme. A wonderful thing it is and the source of our happiness. We need not wait to see what others do.” – Mahatma Gandhi

BE A GOOD KAREN NOT A BAD KAREN!

Haiku & Other Poetry, tutto e niente

one phone to rule them …

Tina Stewart Brakebill

The cord stretching tight

“Shut up David it’s my turn”

Giggles and whispers

Beep! Call waiting (no don’t go)

Crying, as he said goodbye  

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Today at NaPoWriMo our prompt asks us to move backwards in time away from such modern contrivances as podcasts and write a poem that features forgotten technology. This immediately brought me back to the days of one phone for the whole family. I have vivid memories of stretching the cord as far as it could possibly go so that I could (just barely) slip behind a door for some quasi privacy. Oh the days …  So thanks for reading my goofy lil’ tanka.