23 words · family

Teeth Cleaning

I was my daughter’s first patient for a cleaning.

“Her chance to get even,” said a friend.

But our relationship isn’t like that.

Photograph

I had my photograph taken with a camera like that. It feels like it happened a hundred years ago; it was only 40-some.

Today’s prompt: GHOST.
So, for this post,
I tried some vellum —
But you can tell I’m
Missing the mark.
Larks in the dark

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“What letters should I use when I introduce you?” I asked. “BS? MS?”

“There’s also MSLA,” she replied. “But most important is DIL.”

I’m really struggling when I resort to limericks. Please help!

There once was a man named Dickens
Who needed to exit some chickens

My daughter-in-law sent me a link to collage prompts for February.

I’ll call this one “Vacationing Among Cacti” or “Walk in the Desert.”

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Photographs of six books I’m currently reading with explanatory notes in pictures. (Word-count cheating, I know.)

How about you? What are you reading?

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23 words · poetry

There once was a woman named Sally
Who was trying so hard to rally
To post every day
But she’d nothing to say

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February is pretty, don’t you think?

It’s like living in a snow-globe.

I suppose I could complain about the cold.

But I won’t.