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Heartiest congrtulations to each of the special winners here. Lisa, I knew that would special story would have to be a winner, and I love to see you at the top of the heap! Loren, I should have known that gorgeous piece was yours. (You notice I loved it when I read it.) Michael, looks like you're on...

Congratulations to all the winners! Happy Dancin' for you!

Thanks for all the joy in the little yellow boxes and for taking time to read. I need to catch up on some I missed this week. I read some seriously good ones!

Thankyou, Phee and Jan, Your words were balm to my heart.

Congratulations to each of you for recognition of excellence. Savor your EC placement.

My favorite of any poems I've written has a little twist at the end. FALL FEAST Watermelon, peach, banana, cherry, Pumpkin, lemon, plum, cranberry, Apples—golden, red, and green, Canteloupe, muscadine, tangerine. Our Father’s fairest feast of all Is trees fruit-frosted in the fall. For nonfiction--i...

Congratulations to all. Enjoy that "winning" feeling.

Jan, I was thinking about several ways to end poems. One, used effectively, if not too often, is to repeat the first stanza. (Service's "The Cremation of Sam McGee"). Another way is to reword or add to the idea in the first stanza. Another is to summarize the poem's idea. The last line mig...

Thanks for teaching again, Jan. I wondered when I wrote the ending to this poem if it was a little too obvious all the way through to the reader. I put a few verses to show what was going on before the end. Miranda Ant had slept all day, Which made the others mad. Said Andrew Ant, “I’m ‘shamed of yo...

I'm not sure of many ideas for starting a poem, but one that's important to me is to start with the theme or main idea of the poem. Another is to have an easy-to-understand and interesting lead-in to what follows. Recently, when I started to read a challenge poem that just looked like a list of stat...

So glad to see you back behind the teacher's desk, Jan. I've missed you there. Here's the beginning of a devotion I wrote for our church website. When I think of a dismal day, “Casey at the Bat,” a poem by Ernest Lawrence Thayer, comes to mind. The poem begins, “The Outlook wasn’t brilliant for the ...

Cyber congratulations here for your cyber honors! Not an easy topic, but some really excellent entries achieving EC.

Congratulations on recognition for superior work! Enjoy your day!

Happy Dancin' with all the winners

Kinda late on the "uptake" here, and now that I've picked myself up off the floor--thanks, Jan for compiling this. No BOB's here--so I was really surprised. I've never been queen of anything before!