Writing (logging) history

As defined: (2003) Merriam Webster's Collegiate Eleventh Ed.
blog (1999): a Web site that contains an online personal
journal with reflections, comments….

A high school teacher praised the Seventh New Collegiate
Dictionary as essential for college students.

The Seventh (published 1963) and the Ninth (1983)
do not contain the word blog. I checked.

Writing a blog is a good fit for me.
I have written in a journal since 1976.
I am now writing in Composition book#5.
Near two inches of writing.

Journey

Destination.

(twilw) "The woman I live with."

BACKGROUND: One inch snow, one hour on
the tractor/snow blower. Five inches; five hours.

So here is the latest story.
Broken humerus, a lot of Maine snow, a 377 foot driveway.
We like a clear driveway, so we hire a neighbor to plow.
He does so for a three day storm. We each say nice job.

Added proof:
On the second day, "THE WOMAN I LIVE WITH"
gets dressed to move snow and returns quickly because
the plow guy did his job. "I could get used to this, a clear
driveway is nice." Not my words but direct from,
" twilw".

So on Monday morning
"the woman I live with"
starts her hour of exercise on the tread mill (five AM).
She starts to think, looks out the garage door sees
inches of unplowed snow and is convinced
Mr. plowman won't arrive. Out the door,
start the machine, move snow.

Soon her snow blower headlight scares off Mr. dependable.
He sees the light and does not want to run her down.
I imagine him asking, "5:45AM not early enough"?
He does not live with,
"twiIw."

Now a four inch Tuesday snow and we are
again on our own, I with healed bone on the
tractor and
"the woman I live with".
behind the snow blower.
THE END

Twins

My mother has two sets of triplets
as great grandchildren.
Yesterday a set of twins joined.

That would mean that my siblings are
grandparents to the above.

One sister is now the grandmother
to the new twins and to the triplets.

A second sister is grandmother to the
other set of triplets.

And that is the news.
Congratulations to the parents
and to the new mom.

Listen to the story.

Writing without a story or purpose does not happen.  Tell your story
in writing. Each; even the youngest have a story.

The story for children has to do with attitudes and actions.
Screaming while being fed often. Too often. Smiling almost always.
What is that child's story?  Some level of screaming while
eating. Don't see that in the news clips from hungry eyes.

The story for AARP people has to do with consistency and reliability.
He would do that; she would do that. We can count on her.

Listening, talking; never really listening, always ready to talk when
a good story is still being told. Writing allows the story to be told
based on conditions.

A number of IFs.

IF; the reader knows how to listen.
IF; the reader intends to listen.
IF; the reader does not burn the book
the moment the last sentence is read.

Time for this writer (capital I) to explain my joy of writing.
When I write, I can and do reread. I march deep into
the writing and have found unplanned depth.

Sure I write with frequent shallowness. I  hope that stuff
will only be found in the back of the drawer after this writer's death.

THIS BLOG -fresh start

Time for a make over.

And also a glitch popped up so I could not

edit or remove old posts.

So this starts anew. Brief history below.
July 2007 - first post near the time of Turner's
60th wedding anniversary.

January 2010 - all content removed.
An end of the month index is coming
at the end of the month.

Healing

Takes time.

djmaine 1/6/2010