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My first award! I'm so honoured!

Thursday thunks, and a contest

Nope, not a new meme, I just couldn’t come up with a better title.
First, the contest news!
JennyMac is one of the best bloggers out there – I enjoy her so much. I don’t usually need much prompting to extol the many virtues of this brilliant, vibrant gal, and today is no different – its [...]

Silly? Haiku Wednesday

Welcome to “Silly Haiku Wednesday!”
Click here for info and background on this weekly event!
The basics:
Haiku is simple! It is 3 non-rhyming lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables respectively (a great way to use your fingers!)
This week’s theme is: Changes
My submission for this week:
Changes are coming
Because we’re not that silly
But what should it be?

Next week’s [...]

Silly Haiku Wednesday

Welcome to “Silly Haiku Wednesday!”
Click here for info and background on this weekly event!
The basics:
Haiku is simple! It is 3 non-rhyming lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables respectively (a great way to use your fingers!)
This week’s theme is: FreeStyle – your choice
My submission for this week:
Knarf, John-Boy, ShaMoo
Kindred souls, a harmony
Thankful for such joy

Next [...]

Silly Haiku Wednesday

Welcome to “Silly Haiku Wednesday!”
Click here for info and background on this weekly event!
The basics:
Haiku is simple! It is 3 non-rhyming lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables respectively (a great way to use your fingers!)
This week’s theme is: The Road
My submission for this week:
Crossroads or dead end?
So many speed bumps to dodge
Time will tell [...]

Silly Haiku Wednesday

Welcome to “Silly Haiku Wednesday!”
Click here for info and background on this weekly event!
The basics:
Haiku is simple! It is 3 non-rhyming lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables respectively (a great way to use your fingers!)
This week’s theme is: New Beginnings
My submission for this week:
Start the year anew
Fill it with goodness. Believe*.
Live, love, laugh… and [...]

Silly Haiku Wednesday

Welcome to “Silly Haiku Wednesday!”
Click here for info and background on this weekly event!
The basics:
Haiku is simple! It is 3 non-rhyming lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables respectively (a great way to use your fingers!)
This week’s theme is: Aftermath
My submission for this week:
Melancholy Smiles
Everything a paler shade
Worth it? Yes, it was.

 
Next week’s theme: New [...]

Silly Haiku Wednesday

Welcome to “Silly Haiku Wednesday!”
Click here for info and background on this weekly event!
The basics:
Haiku is simple! It is 3 non-rhyming lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables respectively (a great way to use your fingers!)
This week’s theme is: Crunch Time!
My submission for this week:
Wallets now empty
Tree is up, dressed, and twinkling
Here we go again!

 
Next [...]

Silly Haiku Wednesday

Welcome to “Silly Haiku Wednesday!”
Click here for info and background on this weekly event!
The basics:
Haiku is simple! It is 3 non-rhyming lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables respectively (a great way to use your fingers!)
This week’s theme is: Guilty Pleasure?
My submission for this week:
Dancing around it
We pretend not to notice
And sing the same song…

I’m [...]

Silly Haiku Wednesday

Welcome to “Silly Haiku Wednesday!”
Click here for info and background on this weekly event!
The basics:
Haiku is simple! It is 3 non-rhyming lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables respectively (a great way to use your fingers!)
This week’s theme is: Spirit of Giving
My submission for this week:
Commercial nonsense!
Focus on the family,
Not on the price tag.

 
Next week’s [...]

Silly Haiku Wednesday

Welcome to “Silly Haiku Wednesday!”
Click here for info and background on this weekly event!
The basics:
Haiku is simple! It is 3 non-rhyming lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables respectively (a great way to use your fingers!)
This week’s theme is: It’s a Haiku CHALLENGE! …challenge..! …challenge..!
My submission for this week:

Where is your haiku?
Is you is, or [...]

Silly Haiku Wednesday

Welcome to “Silly Haiku Wednesday!”
Click here for info and background on this weekly event!
The basics:
Haiku is simple! It is 3 non-rhyming lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables respectively (a great way to use your fingers!)
This week’s theme is: Parent(s or ing, your choice)
My submission for this week:

Childhood creates you
Gentle hands, firm stands, much love
My [...]

Silly Haiku Wednesday

Welcome to “Silly Haiku Wednesday!”
Click here for info and background on this weekly event!
The basics:
Haiku is simple! It is 3 non-rhyming lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables respectively (a great way to use your fingers!)
This week’s theme is: Spontaneity
My submission for this week:

You blink; days fly past…
Seize your moments, live your life
with wild abandon!

 
Next [...]

Silly Haiku Wednesday

Welcome to “Silly Haiku Wednesday!”
Click here for info and background on this weekly event!
The basics:
Haiku is simple! It is 3 non-rhyming lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables respectively (a great way to use your fingers!)
This week’s theme is: Freestyle!
My submission for this week:

Beliefs: you have yours
I have mine, tho not the same
Yet… friends we [...]

Silly Haiku Wednesday

Welcome to “Silly Haiku Wednesday!”
Click here for info and background on this weekly event!
The basics:
Haiku is simple! It is 3 non-rhyming lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables respectively (a great way to use your fingers!)
This week’s theme is: Water
My submission for this week:

Calming, drifting, deep
Toes in warm sand… such bliss!
Tension drifts away

I’m out of [...]

Silly Haiku Wednesday

Welcome to “Silly Haiku Wednesday!”
Click here for info and background on this weekly event!
The basics:
Haiku is simple! It is 3 non-rhyming lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables respectively (a great way to use your fingers!)
This week’s theme is: Hallowe’en
My submission for this week:

Black cat, pause and look
See cloaked figures flit here… there
Full moon, witching [...]

Silly Haiku Wednesday

Welcome to “Silly Haiku Wednesday!”
Click here for info and background on this weekly event!
The basics:
Haiku is simple! It is 3 non-rhyming lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables respectively (a great way to use your fingers!)
This week’s theme is: Season(s)
My submission for this week:

Leaves flutter. drop. drift.
Air stirs, crisp and fresh. Steps crunch.
Red, gold, orange, [...]

Silly Haiku Wednesday

Yeah I’m an idiot – forgot to get a new Mr. Linky for today’s post. Sorry folks! Fixed, and I’ll fill in those of you who submitted today so far.
Welcome to “Silly Haiku Wednesday!”
Click here for info and background on this weekly event!
The basics:
Haiku is simple! It is 3 non-rhyming lines of 5, 7, and [...]

Silly Haiku Wednesday

Welcome to “Silly Haiku Wednesday!”
Click here for info and background on this weekly event!
The basics:
Haiku is simple! It is 3 non-rhyming lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables respectively (a great way to use your fingers!)
This week’s theme is: Time
My submission for this week:
Watch days flying by
Fleeting days of babies grown
A certain sadness

 
Next week’s theme: [...]

Silly Haiku Wednesday

Welcome to “Silly Haiku Wednesday!”
Click here for info and background on this weekly event!
The basics:
Haiku is simple! It is 3 non-rhyming lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables respectively (a great way to use your fingers!)
This week’s theme is: Light – your choice of context
My submission for this week:
Our life together
Not always sweetness and light
But [...]

Silly Haiku Wednesday

Note: Our server is having a technical issue – we were down for a bit this morning, and may be down again as a faulty drive is swapped out. Sorry for the disappearing act!
Welcome to “Silly Haiku Wednesday!”
Click here for info and background on this weekly event!
The basics:
Haiku is simple! It is 3 non-rhyming [...]