Middle-Pause Pump-Priming Prompt
How about the rest of the year?
This Sunday is Halloween. Are you ready?
In addition to selling goo-gobs of candy, costumes, and decorations, much of the focus is on kids having fun. Kids of any age.
Some of us never outgrow Halloween. Even if we stop eating sugar.
We love putting on costumes. And/or making them…
Spooktober 4
Which allows me to keep the magic alive and write about it
I asked for a microscope for my tenth birthday.
Thanks to the vision cast by my sixth-grade science teacher. He took us to the Pacific Ocean, where he introduced us to the magical worlds within the seemingly small confines of tide pools. …
How do you get rid of an uninvited vampire?
She stumbled over here in a drunken rage, fresh from a feast. Yet as you can see by the howl in her growl, this girl still ain’t satisfied.
What’s she doing in a graveyard? Vampires like live blood, right. Not the fully embalmed rotting corpses we’ve got.
Real people can’t even get drunk on embalming fluid, let alone vampires. Ooops. When they get drunk, it’s on fresh human blood. The red kind.
Wait a minute. Looks like she’s got her eyes on our precious wolf.
This can’t be!
We depend on him to howl at the moon and scare the crap out of us. He brings the bats and the hoot owls and even the black widow spiders out into the light of night.
If you know how to get rid of a pesky vampire, call Marilyn at 1–800-SPO-OKED
When fear runs our lives, it’s time to re-pot ourselves
The key to change… is to let go of fear. ~Roseanne Cash
Our culture teaches us to DO more, so we can HAVE more, so we can BE more. Do more work, so we can have more money, things, or relationships, so we can be happy or peaceful or ‘enough.’
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MVPC — MuddyUm Vogon Poetry Challenge (not to be confused with vegan)
And then some
Calliopes capture catapults
and there they lay
all battywampus, without
wombs, tombs or wombats,
dingbats, clingbats, stringbats
acrobats, or spats even.
Oh willy nilly, oh hilly billy,
don’t be silly or frilly, or dilly.
No, be mind-boggling without ogling
or Googleing or needling or noodling
anything and everything, be the…
An intro with a focus on ‘mood swings’ and vaginal dryness
Happy Menopause Awareness Month!
What did you say, how dare that be a cause for celebration? Maybe it should be a curse for flagellation? And who’s big idea was this, anyway?
The change of life as it’s called can be wild, unpredictable, and spooky, right? …
Spooktober 3
There’s courage and power in connecting these dots
Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light. ~ Brené Brown
A good chunk of my shame lives in my breasts.
I did not put it in there.
But it seemed to grow in volume along with my budding…
Join us in celebrating Marilyn’s new release!
Join us here at Middle-Pause in celebrating the release of Marilyn’s latest book!
She calls it, Bucket Listers, Get your Brave On: How to Do the Thing You’re ‘Too Old’ & ‘Too Scared’ to Do.
Middle-Pause is thrilled to be the birthplace of this quick, helpful read. The book began…
Spooktober Week 3
Monstrous thoughts arising from the deep, coagulating as ‘the creature.’
Insomnia had me baffled until here recently.
Whatever it was keeping me from sleeping was doing a damn good job of hiding until now.
Last night when I rolled over hoping to not even wake up fully in so doing, I bumped into something.
Not my stack of prop-me-up-in-bed pillows…
Go gingerly…and rest in peace.
Greetings of the season!
I’m demonically delighted to announce that I’ve been invited to create for The Witching Hour series in Katie Michaelson’s sumptuous short form pub, The Daily Cuppa.
My posts appear right at midnight as the clock turns from Saturday to Sunday. …
