Up and Down Day

March 23rd, 2013 / Categories: Family, Velvet Verbosity, words / 6 Comments »

I was seven or eight. Remembering which rent house we lived in helps put a date on it.

It had been an up and down day. Daddy had been drinking – again – out of work – again – my sister and I were quarreling – again. He’d had enough. Sent us to bed. We fussed. He heard.

Mom came to us. Whispered. “He wants me to spank you. You’re just little girls. I won’t spank you. You must be brave and cry when I tell you to.” Then, as she lovingly tucked us into bed she slapped her own bare legs. “Cry now, girls.”
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The 100 Word Challenge this week is TUCK. This is written in honor of my mother who suffered unthinkable things at the hands of my father. She protected my younger sister and me many times. This is a true story. My mother was a survivor. I wish I could tell her how much that night meant to me, even though I did not understand it at the time.

take 3 – add 33

March 22nd, 2013 / Categories: Moosin Around, trifecta, words / 34 Comments »

Remember our spring? How we kids loved to strip to our undies, dance in the puddles left by rain.

How as teens we’d walk and talk and love. Our rebellion of our parents complete. We loved.

Fountain_Head / Water Photos / CC BY

Trifextra challenge week sixty – take their proffered 3 words (remember, rain, rebellion), add our own 33 to those – in any order – to make 36. Then post. These are mine. Where are yours? This weekend’s words will be community judged. Please read and select your top 3 as soon as submissions end and voting begins.

Shake Your Booty

March 16th, 2013 / Categories: Moose Nuggets, Moosin Around, Velvet Verbosity / 6 Comments »

Bodies glisten. Oiled, tanned, sleek bodies intermingle with sweat-dripping, not so sleek bodies. Hard bodies and those striving to become hard(er) bodies work side by side. A night at the gym takes precedence over another night at the movies – the bar – the couch.

After the first tremulous days of being in a new place, doing new things, and bending my body into unaccustomed shapes I’ve become one with the gym.

It’s not been an easy 7 months, but it has been fruitful. 40 pounds gone away – for good. Many more pounds must follow. Each day a new day towards life.
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VV’s 100 Word challenge this week is SHAKE. The above is a true story. I have many more pounds to go before I am sleek . . . but it is getting closer.

the day after

March 15th, 2013 / Categories: Moose Nuggets, trifecta / 22 Comments »
Bérenger ZYLA / Water Photos / CC BY-NC-ND

It was
The day after
Kingdom
Come

The mists
Cleared

We raised

Stretched
Our hands
To the sky

Stooped
slowly
To the
Ground

We sought
What was
Lost

Wondered

If we
Were found

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The Trifecta weekend challenge was to write 33 words with the above picture as the catalyst. These are mine . . . where are yours?

The Debut

March 12th, 2013 / Categories: Family, trifecta / 16 Comments »

ohhhbetty / Foter.com / CC BY


One last mirror check. Hair: perfectly coiffed. Makeup: no blotches, no coloring outside the lines on lips or eyes. Cheryl dabbed at an invisible (to all but Cheryl) blotch on the lipstick.

Stepping back from the vanity, another check of the outfit so painstakingly chosen for this debut. The gown was robin’s egg blue with swaths of sequins and pearls. The back proffered an alluring split to the thigh. The front low enough for cleavage to peek through enticingly.

Gems sparkled from Cheryl’s ears and throat and rings adorned fingers red-tipped with polish.

At the bottom of seamed, silk encased legs . . . sparkling silver pumps – size 10E.

The stage manager hurried to Cheryl’s side, trying to hurry things along. “It’s time, Max, come on.”

“There is no Max here, you dolt. Only Cheryl. Cheryl will come when Cheryl is ready.”

“Well, CHERYL had best get ready soon, or I’m going to the next act. Just because this is your first time, honey, that don’t mean the crowd won’t get restless and boo you off the stage. Now, you coming or not?”

A flip, a twirl, and a sigh preceded Cheryl’s walk onto the stage. There were no boos that night. Cheryl entranced the crowd and loved every minute of it.
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This is dedicated to those in my family who walk the walk as they talk the talk. More power to you!

The trifecta challenge this week is TIME used in the third definition:

1a : the measured or measurable period during which an action, process, or condition exists or continues : duration
b : a nonspatial continuum that is measured in terms of events which succeed one another from past through present to future
c : leisure [time for reading]
2: the point or period when something occurs : occasion
3a : an appointed, fixed, or customary moment or hour for something to happen, begin, or end [arrived ahead of time]
b : an opportune or suitable moment —often used in the phrase about time [about time for a change]

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