family – Missives & Musings

The Panda next door

Today’s challenge is to write our own poem in which we recount a childhood memory. We should try to incorporate a sense of how that experience indicated to you, even then, something about the person you’d grow up to be. I thought I’d started this poem years back, but I could find no trace inContinue reading “The Panda next door”

Chippy Tea

Today we are to try our hand at writing our own poem in which something that normally unfolds in a set and well understood way — like a baseball game or dance recital – goes haywire but is described as if it is all very normal. I struggled with to keep strictly to the pathContinue reading “Chippy Tea”