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Nona Blyth Cloud has lived and worked in the Los Angeles area for over 50 years, spending much of that time commuting on the 405 Freeway. After Hollywood failed to appreciate her genius for acting and directing, she began a second career managing non-profits, from which she has retired. Nona has now resumed writing whatever comes into her head, instead of reports and pleas for funding. She lives in a small house overrun by books with her wonderful husband.

TCS: How Many Languages Do You Speak?

Posted on June 25, 2018 by wordcloud9

Good Morning! ________________________________________________ Welcome to The Coffee Shop, just for you early risers on Monday mornings. This is an Open Thread forum, so if you have an off-topic opinion burning a hole in your brainpan, feel free to add a … Continue reading →

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ON THIS DAY: June 24, 2018

Posted on June 24, 2018 by wordcloud9

June 24th is Celebration of the Senses Day * Pralines Day International Fairy Day Swim a Lap Day Stonewall National Monument Day * _________________________________________ MORE! Ambrose Bierce, Margaret Olley and Hopalong Cassidy, click

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ON THIS DAY: June 23, 2018

Posted on June 23, 2018 by wordcloud9

June 23th is National Hydration Day * Plastic Pink Flamingo Day * Pecan Sandies Day UN Public Service Day * International Women in Engineering Day * _________________________________________ MORE! Verena Holmes, Jean Anouilh and Lena Horne, click

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ON THIS DAY: June 22, 2018

Posted on June 22, 2018 by wordcloud9

June 22nd is Chocolate Éclair Day Journey’s End Day * Onion Rings Day Worldwide VW Beetle Day * _________________________________________ MORE! Bilbo Baggins, Katherine Dunham and Ferdinand Porsche, click

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One Sentence Poems for Friday

Posted on June 22, 2018 by wordcloud9

One of my favorite poetry websites is One Sentence Poems, which does indeed publish only poems that consist of a single sentence. If you think that one-sentence poems wouldn’t have much meaning, or you even doubt they could actually be … Continue reading →

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A Poem for the Summer Solstice

Posted on June 21, 2018 by wordcloud9

In Summer by Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872 – 1906) Oh, summer has clothed the earth In a cloak from the loom of the sun! And a mantle, too, of the skies’ soft blue, And a belt where the rivers run. And now for … Continue reading →

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ON THIS DAY: June 21, 2018

Posted on June 21, 2018 by wordcloud9

June 21st is Atheist Solidarity Day Daylight Appreciation Day * Day of the Gong * International Day of Yoga * National Seashell Day Peaches ‘N’ Cream Day World Make Music Day * _________________________________________ MORE! Daisy Turner, Jean-Paul Sartre and Shirin Ebadi, click

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Word Cloud: FABLES

Posted on June 21, 2018 by wordcloud9

by NONA BLYTH CLOUD ONCE UPON A TIME, in a country so big that it stretched for many miles, all the way between two oceans, a woman wrote a poem. This poem was put in the base of a statue … Continue reading →

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ON THIS DAY: June 20, 2018

Posted on June 20, 2018 by wordcloud9

June 20th is American Eagle Day * Kouign Amann Day * Lambrusco Wine Day Vanilla Milkshake Day World Refugee Day * _________________________________________ MORE! Samuel Morse, Lillian Hellman and Muhammad Ali, click

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Reaping the Whirlwind

Posted on June 19, 2018 by wordcloud9

This administration may quote the New Testament in a desperate attempt to sanctify their illegal and immoral Border War Against Children and Families, they may claim what they are doing is different from the Third Reich because the Nazis were … Continue reading →

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