Today is the twelfth day of the 18th Annual Slice of Life Story Challenge!
ANNOUNCEMENTS

BE INSPIRED
Writing a poem slice can be a great way of saying a lot with few words. If you haven’t tried it, look at Bob Hamera’s slice, “It’s Happening,” for inspiration. He shares two haiku along with images on his blog, arjeha.
QUESTIONS
Please email us if you have questions rather than leaving them in the comments below. You may direct specific questions to the appropriate co-author.
SOLSC (for individuals):
- If your last name begins with A-D, email Betsy Hubbard at betsymhubbard[at]gmail.com.
- If your last name begins with E-H, email Jenna Komarin at Jennakomarin[at]gmail.com.
- If your last name begins with I-L, email Lainie Levin at lainlev72[at]gmail.com.
- If your last name begins with M-Q, email Leah Thomas at leah.koch7[at]gmail.com.
- If your last name begins with R-U, email Melani Meehan at meehanmelanie[at]gmail.com.
- If your last name begins with V-Z, email Sarah Valter at sarahvalterreads[at]gmail.com.
Classroom SOLSC (for classrooms and students under age 18 with an adult sponsor):
- If your last name begins with A-L, email Leah Koch at Leah.koch7[at]gmail.com.
- If your last name begins with M-Z, email Melanie Meehan at meehanmelanie[at]gmail.com.
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Five years since https://musingmillennial93.wordpress.com/2025/03/13/5-years/
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making it by the skin of my teeth tonight and also still have not been able to get it together at work – https://theakilahbrown.com/zoom-fail-sol25/
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spring is near: https://fireflytrails.wordpress.com/2025/03/12/a-taste-solc2025-12/
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Perhaps every rough day deserves a heartfelt haiku. This one did for me. #sigh Some Times Are Harder Than Others – Dr. Carla Michelle Brown * Speaker * author * Educator #missingmymama
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Tonight I’m baking with a recipe I got from my 7th grade foods class (30 years ago) https://shawndastories.wordpress.com/2025/03/12/pumpkin-bread/
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Setting a SMART goal for myself and still getting a cake baked: https://horizon51.blogspot.com/2025/03/solsc-25-day-twelve-fifteen-minutes.html?m=1
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What funny thing have you encountered today?
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It’s about the flowers: https://readingtl.blogspot.com/2025/03/slice-of-life-2025-flowers.html
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short and sweet for almost late
https://hannahshappenings.net/2025/03/12/almost-ran-out-of-time-march-sol-12-31-sol25/
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We listen and we don’t judge…too harshly. https://dontbotherortizme.wordpress.com/2025/03/12/table-fries/
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A don’t like/like structure about the day: https://sliceoflisa.blogspot.com/2025/03/i-do-not-likei-like.html
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Sunshine is good for the soul: https://teacherswrite.com/2025/03/12/sunshine-is-good-for-the-soul/
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Day 12! A bit random sorry! https://abitofgi.wordpress.com/2025/03/12/the-things-in-life/
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Long day, but I can always count on cuddles from my pups. https://imlivingmywords.blogspot.com/2025/03/walnut.html
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A little perspective through the van window. http://onathought.com/2025/03/12/through-the-vans-window/ #dogs #laughing #smallslice
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Playing hooky with my youngest: https://bluejeanamycom.wordpress.com/2025/03/12/sol-day-12-2/
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I’m embracing life and going #gray(scale).
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A bird visited my classroom window: https://tendingbulbs.wordpress.com/2025/03/12/junco/
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The most confident person I know? I’ll plead the Fifth, thank you very much: https://edsoapbox.com/2025/03/12/slice-of-life-day-12-on-confidence/
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Do you send postcards? https://thinkingthroughmylens.com/2025/03/12/postcarding-sol25-day-12/
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Inspired by my son sharing a poem made up of three haikus that he wrote at school, I decided to share both the moment and my poem in which each stanza was a haiku with all of you. https://karpenglish.wordpress.com/2025/03/12/haiku-sequence/
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Sign me up!
https://thoughtsandmusingsfromheidi.blogspot.com/2025/03/renewal.html
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comments while golfing https://thebamcamblog.wordpress.com/2025/03/12/day-12-march-12-2025/
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Whew, with this kind of weather I barely had time to write. https://moonsnailsdaisiesmarmots.wordpress.com/2025/03/12/hhjjjkn/
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hungry for words after a big dinner https://chatsfromchile.wordpress.com/2025/03/13/im-not-a-night-writer/
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spontaneous icecream night https://blogginbecky12.wordpress.com/2025/03/12/ice-cream-night/
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Communal Spring https://tkslibrarian.wordpress.com/2025/03/12/communal-spring/
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Walking in the sunshine. https://alotalot.wordpress.com/2025/03/12/slice-of-life-walk-2/
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A meet and greet with ourselves https://open.substack.com/pub/ryansgraybill/p/i-am?r=oc5z7&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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Hi, I liked your blog but I cannot comment there as I am not a member.
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A meet and greet with ourselves https://open.substack.com/pub/ryansgraybill/p/i-am?r=oc5z7&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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All about ice-cream! https://seekingopenspace.wordpress.com/2025/03/12/ice-cream/
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Today was sucky but tomorrow will be better.https://bloggedbutunspoken.wordpress.com/2025/03/12/today-tomorrow/
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Clean up in the driver’s seat. https://scatteredthoughtsmary.blogspot.com/2025/03/bloody-hell.html
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Missing my daughter today, five years after she left us. https://onemiraculousmama.wordpress.com/2025/03/12/sol25-day-12-five-years/
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Just piling it on over here… 🫠 https://writingandlaughing.com/2025/03/12/despite-it-all-sol25-day-12-31/
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Worry – a fault or virtue? https://camashmorr.blogspot.com/2025/03/i-am-worrier-solsc25.html
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Best mom ever to balance yesterday’s @$$hole parent http://karyninthekitchen.com/2025/03/12/sol25-12-best-mom-ever/
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A Tanka about my favorite sound, my baby girl’s heart beat. https://limitlyssthoughts.wordpress.com/2025/03/12/my-favorite-sound/
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A great experience…https://dailyscribbles.wordpress.com/2025/03/12/learning-about-alpha-delta-kappa/
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https://randomthoughtsofagratefuladdict.blogspot.com/2025/03/happy-birthday-mom.html
After remembering Dad yesterday, today I celebrate my Mom.
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Who needs to be cut in your life? https://mschiubookawrites.wordpress.com/2025/03/12/break-up/
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It’s Finally Happening! https://teachingtomorrowsleaders.blogspot.com/2025/03/its-finally-happening.html
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You never know what you will find in a Little Free Library https://thespacebetweenthepages.wordpress.com/2025/03/12/a-visit-to-the-lfl/
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Here it is after several false starts. Did anyone else have that experience today? https://jumpofffindwings.wordpress.com/2025/03/12/make-it-count/
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Purple perfection https://berries781.wordpress.com/2025/03/10/purple-perfection/
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Friend time: https://newtreemom.wordpress.com/2025/03/12/its-the-little-things-12/
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Let’s Dance https://musingmillennial93.wordpress.com/2025/03/12/lets-dance/
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On doing it again. https://pelicansandprose.com/2025/03/12/undone/
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https://www.larkinmeehan.com/blog/2025/3/12/get-me-home
Airport things
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An escape:
https://tswalkingthedog.blogspot.com/2025/03/green-peace.html
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Seeing some light at the end of my tunnel of stress. Or better yet, finding tools to bring the light to the tunnel. https://wherewerv.wordpress.com/2025/03/12/what-if-it-turns-out-okay/
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The “fun” post of the slicing challenge: It’s our anniversary! :). https://iowaconflictedteacher.com/2025/03/12/day-12-31-solc25/
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A little poem of gratitude for sunshine https://pencilonmybackporch.home.blog/2025/03/12/sun-sun-sun/
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Old Lady Gardener #172 March 12 Filling ones bucket https://wordsfromjl.wordpress.com/2025/03/12/old-lady-gardener-172-march-12-filling-ones-bucket/
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Short one today: My hand: https://sherrisslice.wordpress.com/2025/03/12/sol25-12-my-hand/
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I enjoy creating art with friends: https://sittingbehindtheeightball.blog/2025/03/12/painting-with-friends/
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“Inside Weather”: https://athousandfibersblog.wordpress.com/2025/03/12/inside-weather/
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Is this a Spring tease….Tanka poem http://doodadsanddoodles.blog/2025/03/12/is-this-a-spring-tease-solc-day-12/
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Trying out the Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow format- it worked perfectly for my day full of exploring a new city! https://aggiekesler.wordpress.com/2025/03/12/yesterday-today-and-tomorrow/
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Sometimes, I am aware of how much my glasses help me see. This is post to realizing how my other senses make up for sight when I am not wearing my glasses. https://hmsablog.wordpress.com/2025/03/12/without-my-glasses/
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First of all, thank you Betsy for using my post as an inspiration today. Another 10-sentence story: Fear | arjeha
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A fellow Slicer is credited for my Slice today. This is my interview with myself about books & my reading habits/life. https://thesassymightymissb.wordpress.com/2025/03/12/by-the-book/
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I LICKED THE LAKE would make a great souvenir pin after visiting Salt Lake City, but the gift shop didn’t have one … probably because you’re not supposed to do that 👀 https://bulletsandblanks.wordpress.com/2025/03/12/no-pins-at-the-gift-shop/
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How do you feel about snow in March? https://justforamonth.blogspot.com/2025/03/something-to-be-certain-about.html
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A brief tale about Elena’s groovy pajamas https://anavpatton.org/2025/03/12/pete-the-cat/
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An empathetic knee — this one’s for you mom https://juliameehan12.wordpress.com/2025/03/12/an-empathetic-knee/
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Have you ever tried writing a Shadorma? https://areadinglife.org/2025/03/12/genesis/
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Where do you find magic? Thanking a frog for helping me find some and saving me during a meltdown.
https://open.substack.com/pub/expatteacher/p/finding-magic?r=164m62&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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What is your perfect day? https://ritadicarne.com/2025/03/12/lazy-day-list/
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Are you a professional “risk taker”? I am. Maybe an opportunist of sorts? https://lmwp2016megginv.wordpress.com/2025/03/12/throw-your-hat-into-the-ring/
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Have you ever painted an elephant? https://livinglife816287820.wordpress.com/2025/03/12/eric-carles-orange-elephants
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Relax, pull up a chair, maybe get yourself a tea, and let me tell you about my favourite place. https://persistenceandpedagogy.com/2025/03/12/my-favourite-place-solc25-12-31/
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Returning to the 4-4-4 format, thanks to Elisabeth Ellington. https://learnwithvivian.com/2025/03/12/4-4-4-again/
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Enough is enough
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A slice about BOOKS through a make-believe conversation, reader to reader. https://adayinthelifeof19b.blogspot.com/2025/03/books-books-and-more-books-sol-12.html
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We begin a big project on mission in the Solomon Islands. https://kimlwhitmore.wordpress.com/2025/03/12/a-false-start-or-not/
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A friend was diagnosed with a form of dementia recently and her friends hearts are breaking
http://drferreri.blogspot.com/2025/03/sol25-march-12-geese-stir-up-poem.html
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It was a day! https://msvictorreads.wordpress.com/2025/03/12/grateful-to-be-a-part-of-their-journey/
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My kids’ arguments have become the soundtrack of my daily life https://readreflectteach.wordpress.com/2025/03/11/sol25-day-12-bickering/
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Remembering my parents https://ayearofreading.org/2025/03/12/slice-of-life-memories-of-my-parents/
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Refresh… https://standingtall47.wordpress.com/2025/03/12/gag/
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Elusive sleep. https://schoolinspirations.wordpress.com/2025/03/12/brain-off-please-solc-12-of-31/
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Short lines and snapshots capture two enduring friendships. https://pleasuresfromthepage.blogspot.com/2025/03/sol-1231-friendship-fills-me.html
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An interview with myself about books and my reading life, with questions borrowed from the New York Times “By the Books” column: https://thedirigibleplum.com/2025/03/12/by-the-book-12-31-sol25/
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My audience today is poets with an invitation to write. https://reflectionsontheteche.com/2025/03/12/slice-of-life-day-12-this-photo-is-a-metal-heart/
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Intelligence + Intimidation = Birds Part II. https://amyjuengst.wordpress.com/2025/03/12/mob-rule/
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A very local holiday (or holey day) remembered… https://humbleswede.wordpress.com/2025/03/11/donut-sunday/
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A different kind of sporting event gave me just what I needed on a spring afternoon https://ebgriffin1119.wordpress.com/2025/03/12/track-meet/
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The Power of a Sweet Surprise https://kimhaynesjohnson.com/2025/03/12/march-12-1052-1123/
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We draw, and I’m learning again that I know how to do it. https://getupeight.home.blog/2025/03/12/drawn-together/
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Does anyone like it when kids show you their wiggly teeth? https://wonder864.wordpress.com/2025/03/12/solc-day-12-the-loose-tooth/
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My wrong turn was okay https://justwritemelanie.blogspot.com/2025/03/slice-of-life-2025-12-of-31-right-wrong.html
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Oh, lice. Why must you feed on human scalps? http://writingwithabandon.com/2025/03/12/post-traumatic-lice/
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When asked to fill in these blanks – This time is year is like…because.. – I answered…https://readandwritebysally.wordpress.com/2025/03/12/this-time-of-year/
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Not my finest hour, but can you relate? https://nixthecomfortzone.com/2025/03/12/solc-day-12-not-my-finest-hour-but-can-you-relate/
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It’s been a year of family football. https://pushtowrite2020.wordpress.com/2025/03/12/undeated-almost/
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About Om Beach in Gokarna, a temple town near the Arabian sea. https://mukhamani.wordpress.com/2025/03/12/day-12-of-the-march-solsc-sol25/
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When will this sick season end?!? http://wherethereisjoy.blog/2025/03/11/worry/
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We sat in the hall and he proudly shared his writing… https://dmsherriff.wordpress.com/2025/03/11/a-dose-of-kid/
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I know it’s for the best, really… but it hurts: https://litbitsandpieces.com/2025/03/12/absence/
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I know it’s for the best, really… but it hurts: https://litbitsandpieces.com/2025/03/12/absence/
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Using art to help students retell https://justgiftslife.gift/2025/03/12/an-artsy-idea/
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I’m having fun with descriptions of a place in a riddle AGAIN! https://franmcveigh.wordpress.com/2025/03/12/solsc25-day-12-riddle-day-2/
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Reading The Probability of Everything today. (I haven’t quite finished, Sally!) https://mrsdkrebs.edublogs.org/2025/03/11/march-12-1052-1123-a-m-california/
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”Sagging Body Parts, Modern Art, and Introduced to Art,” another glimpse into sub life: https://glendafunk.wordpress.com/2025/03/11/sagging-body-parts-modern-art-intro-to-art-solsc25-12-31-1952a-m-to-1123-a-m/
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Thinking about rest, relaxation, and renewal during my Spring Break.
https://wordancerblog.com/2025/03/11/a-much-needed-spring-break/
AND – “Wild Blueberries” – poem for March 12th
https://wordancerblog.com/march-sol-2025-poems-about-nourishment/
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