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Dawn Quyle Landau
Mother, Writer, treasure hunter, aging red head, and sushi lover. This is my view on life, "Straight up, with a twist––" because life is too short to be subtle! Featured blogger for Huffington Post, and followed on Twitter by LeBron James– for reasons beyond my comprehension.
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Friday Fictioneer…. Boxed In
This is my first attempt at Friday’s Fictioneer… and I’m late. Love reading these, and thought I’d throw my hat in the ring. Thanks to Rochelle Wiseoff for organizing this cool challenge, and providing the photo prompts. Check out her … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Blogging, Honest observations on many things, Life, Writing
Tagged fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Tales from the Motherland, writing
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Daily Challenge: Fiction
Note: This is from last week’s Weekly challenge. The prompt provided this photo, and asked for a story of 1,000 words or more, to explain the subject. Life with kids home, and guests got in the way, but I wanted … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Blogging, Writing
Tagged childhood, domestic violence, DPchallenge, fiction, Tales from the Motherland, Word Press
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A Middle Aged Woman Walks Into a Sex Shop…It’s No Joke.
Warning: If you are prone to tisk tisk’ing; if you might run into me in the grocery store and wonder; if you are friends with my kids; if you are an in-law or relative; or, if you are one of … Continue reading
Posted in Aging, Awareness, Blog, Blogging, Daily Observations, Education, Honest observations on many things, Humor, Life, Musings
Tagged #WPLongform, Humor, Lovers, Middle Aged Crisis, Musings, Orgasm, Outsiders, sex, Sex shop, Sex toys, Vibrators
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12 Minute Memory
Note: This post is in response to the Word Press Weekly Challenge. The prompt states: “THE CHALLENGE: I REMEMBER You’ll need an egg timer or a some sort of stopwatch for this challenge. Set a countdown timer for 10 minutes, … Continue reading
Posted in Awareness, Blog, Blogging, Death of parent, how blogs work, Life, Musings, My world, Nature, Tales From the Motherland, Wonderful Things, Writing
Tagged Adventure, blogs, childhood, DPchallenge, Memories, Tales from the Motherland
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Dear Kids,
You’ve been on my mind a lot lately. In fact, it seems you are on my mind all the time, given that one of the three of you, or all three at once, pop into my thoughts at least once … Continue reading
I Want My MTV…
MTV debuted the year I graduated from high school, and just weeks before I started college. It was a revelation, in the life of this music junky. My peers and I had been blessed with the brilliance of Saturday Night … Continue reading
Posted in Aging, Awareness, Blog, Blogging, Daily Observations, Honest observations on many things
Tagged 80s music, Blog hop, Coming of age, MTV, music, SNL, Tales from the Motherland, Videos, VJays
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I haven’t done the weekly photo challenge before, but each week as I look through others’ work, I think: I should do one too. When I saw Foreshadow, I new immediately which photo I would use. Right after my daughter’s … Continue reading
Sometimes The Stars Align; And You Get Very Lucky…
I consider myself a lucky person, in ways that really don’t involve pure luck. Those of you who have read this blog for a while, or consistently, know that I have traveled a lot, and done some very cool things. … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure, Blog, Blogging, Honest observations on many things, Humor, Life, Musings, My world, Tales From the Motherland, Wonderful Things, Writing
Tagged #WPLongform, getting published, Hard Work, Humor, Lucky, Pacific Northwest Writer's Conference, PNWA, Tales from the Motherland, writing
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It wasn’t a total shot in the dark. Meagan at Hot Pink Underwear and I actually met at a writing course nearly two years ago. It was very brief, but we got along in the short time we met. We … Continue reading
Radio Free… Remember When?
Note: This post in my third contribution to the blog hop: Remember That Time… (this week:) The Radio. Emily and Ashley are hosting this summer ho down, check out the other posts at the bottom of any of their posts. … Continue reading
Posted in Aging, Awareness, Blog, Death of parent, Honest observations on many things, Life, Music, Musings, My world, Tales From the Motherland, Teenagers, Writing
Tagged Blog hop, Doobie Brothers, John Denver, Johnny Cash, music, Neil Diamond, New Order, Peter Gabriel, Radio, Tales from the Motherland, Talking Heads, the Cure, the Go Gos
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