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@owasco

Poet, writer, singer, actress, wanna-be farmer. Retired restaurateur. Forever mother.

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owasco
@owasco Aug 12, 2026, 3:59 PM UTC

Shackles, a freewrite

I would not be surprised to learn that many people down at village hall in this hillbilly town hate my guts. I protested. Oh yes I did. The agenda for the evening's bimonthly board meeting listed the…

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owasco
@owasco Aug 10, 2026, 6:02 PM UTC

To the Moon, a freewrite

I could use a lift to the moon and back on Ralph Cramdens fist, or wait, not Ralph's - was it Ralph's? Do I have severe memory loss? The kind that needs treatment? The kind that is pathological not j…

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owasco
@owasco Aug 2, 2026, 4:41 PM UTC

No Fuzzy Peaches At All, a freewrite poem

I sat down to write a poem and a very bad poem came out. I try now a second time, not letting my brain get in the way of the words I hope. I pray that today will be the day I can actually do this: to…

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owasco
@owasco Jul 11, 2026, 9:45 PM UTC

Is It Normal?

I've published two posts now with Is It Normal? themes. The inspiration for these themes originated in an assignment for my homeopathic studies. For that exercise, we students were tasked with coming…

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owasco
@owasco May 7, 2026, 8:18 PM UTC

Big House - Tiny Garden, in Upstate New York State, USA

Some folks plan their gardens with extreme care. They record copious notes about even the tiniest of garden events, every day of the year. They test their soils and amend as necessary to suit the pla…

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owasco
@owasco Apr 19, 2026, 2:49 PM UTC

Is It Normal?

After my first resounding success of "Is It Normal...?" haiku, the universe kept on presenting me with more of them. Often I am in the garden when they come to me. Was it a toad that told me? is it n…

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owasco
@owasco Apr 10, 2026, 1:16 AM UTC

Is It Normal...?

One of the recent assignments for my homeopathic studies was to finish the phrase "Is it normal to...?" One person asked "Is it normal to catch every illness your children catch?" and another "Is it…

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owasco
@owasco Mar 11, 2026, 4:15 PM UTC

Are You Old Enough To Remember?

### Pull out your calculators people! It's tax time! I bent over my desk to add up these receipts. I got out my trusty twenty-year-old TI-84 Plus graphing calculator, the very one I once-upon-a-time…

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owasco
@owasco Mar 3, 2026, 8:48 PM UTC

Big House, Tiny Garden, March 2026

Breakfast of Champions I’ve always been selective about what I eat in restaurants. Salad is an obvious choice to avoid processed foods as much as possible. Unfortunately, I almost never order salads,…

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owasco
@owasco Feb 26, 2026, 2:53 PM UTC

Close Encounters in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico

“Go to Mexico” they told me. “It’ll be fun” they said. “Mexico is easy-peasy” my sister said. It would be the first time I had used my passport in the seventy-plus years I have been on this planet. I…

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