tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84472229061275955372024-03-21T08:18:58.984-05:00 Mildred R Holmes My Writerly JournalMildred R Holmeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12859939075587298735noreply@blogger.comBlogger134125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8447222906127595537.post-29339624634265761312023-07-25T04:03:00.001-05:002023-07-25T04:03:52.734-05:00Healing from the Inside Out: A New Age for Collaboration, Community, and...Mildred R Holmeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12859939075587298735noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8447222906127595537.post-31168959919307693842022-09-07T00:00:00.004-05:002022-09-07T00:00:00.204-05:00Doings since AprilAhniin, Greetings, one and all! I’ve been pretty busy since April. Mostly trying to get myself situated legally as a business here in my home state. And trying to find out more about international legalities. I’ve got a weekly planner in Ojibwemowin with English translation in very small print up over to Amazon. Course looking over that, I need to make a better copyright Mildred R Holmeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12859939075587298735noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8447222906127595537.post-75136229070322952372022-04-30T00:00:00.001-05:002022-04-30T00:00:00.233-05:00Zombie A to Z ChallengeZit and zombie. Man, what a strange mindset I was in when I chose the words of the different one word lists I checked out. Perhaps I should have just checked the dictionary and closed my eyes and stuck a pin somewhere on the page. I chose to use zombie as the title cause that sorta defines one of my dreams???? Naaay! It was better than zit is the one and Mildred R Holmeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12859939075587298735noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8447222906127595537.post-31064348292191098322022-04-29T00:00:00.001-05:002022-04-29T00:00:00.194-05:00YankA to Z ChallengeYank, yikes! What a Combination. Thinking the choices I made are not very encouraging to the month’s theme for this year’s A to Z Challenge. Yank takes me a bit to get to the actual word and not the short, mostly derogatory term for Yankee. Reading all those romances back in the day might have a bit to do with that mindset of mine. Then the other Mildred R Holmeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12859939075587298735noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8447222906127595537.post-81092891902859345572022-04-28T00:00:00.008-05:002022-04-28T00:00:00.636-05:00Xebec A to Z ChallengeXebec, x2, xr-429-iUe. Another 3-fer. This time I had to look up all three. And found to my surprise, I’d gotten these words from over to the writer’s write site. A small three-masted Mediterranean sailing ship with lateen and square sails is what a Xebec is. Here I thought it was some kind of animal similar to a zebra. Xr-429-iUe is from a blog “the Mildred R Holmeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12859939075587298735noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8447222906127595537.post-19097549585540125212022-04-27T00:00:00.003-05:002022-04-27T00:00:00.273-05:00WastelandA to Z Challenge Wasteland and Wagon wheel. Well, well, well. Whaddaya know, a three for one this time. Let’s see how I can fit a wasteland with a wagon wheel in a slightly different manner than what is currently popping into everyone’s mind’s eye. After all they must have something to do with accomplishing my dreams or dealing with duality of 222. Well, 22.&Mildred R Holmeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12859939075587298735noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8447222906127595537.post-15654358427910443902022-04-26T00:00:00.003-05:002022-04-26T00:00:00.202-05:00Vegetarian Vegetarian vinyl. Or put another way, vinyl vegetarian. Hah. Now, I’m getting downright silly. Well, it Is nearly the end of the month. IRL I am writing these posts in March, the 28th, 29th & 30th. I have found some live sprinters who are on during my normal writing hours and have been able to get a lot of writing done. These are mostly for my blogs. &Mildred R Holmeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12859939075587298735noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8447222906127595537.post-11913163871995935222022-04-25T00:00:00.008-05:002022-04-25T00:00:00.222-05:00Unfamiliar UnicornA to Z Challenge Unfamiliar Unicorn. Well, finally a halfway decent choice of two words. These words conjure up all sorts of ideas for writing. ‘Cept for the dratted accomplishment of dream or duality…ahhh. Methinks I just might see a possibility of this. An unfamiliar unicorn may have just walked itself into one of my short stories over to my StoryKeeper Mildred R Holmeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12859939075587298735noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8447222906127595537.post-88527455854913383822022-04-23T00:00:00.003-05:002022-04-23T00:00:00.205-05:00Thump A to Z ChallengeThump and Torture. What was I thinking when I chose those words. Perhaps I was getting tired and just chose the first things on the list. Yep. That’s my story…huh. Back to the hemming and hawing regard the above words. Thump as an accomplishment or duality? Torture is more easily thought of as pertains to accomplishment and evenMildred R Holmeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12859939075587298735noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8447222906127595537.post-14541984751709554432022-04-22T00:00:00.006-05:002022-04-22T00:00:00.249-05:00Shaking SixesA to Z Challenge Shaking, sixes and…here we go again. Thinking I might just have to pick some different words after all. I don’t have the vaguest idea of how to even start correlating these words to Accomplishment or duality of 22. All I can think of is shaking sixes in Yahtzee was the goal if one wanted to win in this woman’s family. The more the better since the Mildred R Holmeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12859939075587298735noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8447222906127595537.post-9031831810820333872022-04-21T00:00:00.009-05:002022-04-21T00:00:00.201-05:00RacismA to Z Challenge Racism and Regent. Now whaddaya know. There’s this person, River, I watch on YouTube who had some strong opinions on a certain couple who made some some claims about the current reigning monarch of England and her family. I mention this cause these two words were chosen last year when I hadn’t even heard of River. I was astounded to learn of the accusationsMildred R Holmeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12859939075587298735noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8447222906127595537.post-5631662461985851892022-04-20T00:00:00.004-05:002022-04-20T00:00:00.184-05:00QualifiedQualified and Quantum. That word isn’t the only one in my synopsis. There’s one titled *Jester of the Queen” to which I added “’s Jester” for whatever reason I thought would make a good title for a book. Perhaps one day it might come to fruition. T’any rate, I’m so glad that I didn’t end up using that. Cause in my mind’s eye, I see Danny Kaye in his jester’s suit Mildred R Holmeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12859939075587298735noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8447222906127595537.post-24523180792779372852022-04-19T00:00:00.008-05:002022-04-19T00:00:00.216-05:00PendantA to Z Challenge Pendant and Pimple. Two more unrelated words I never did see. Well, yeah cause there are more choices coming and I am shaking my head at the thought. Perhaps looking at those choices is what caused me to run screaming into the other room and finding something else to do. Course back in 2021, I was in the midst of adjusting to several health Mildred R Holmeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12859939075587298735noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8447222906127595537.post-49734014741857044882022-04-18T00:00:00.003-05:002022-04-18T00:00:00.213-05:00Odd, OopsA to Z Challenge Odd and oops. Now these I can easily see pertain to either Accomplishing my dreams or the duality of 22. Oh, on that subject, now that I have written 14 entries, perhaps oops even pertains to this goal. It just occurred to me that the duality of 22 might just be the year 2022? Now isn’t that odd? Well, I must admit that I’ve been called oddMildred R Holmeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12859939075587298735noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8447222906127595537.post-18609181572175446972022-04-16T00:00:00.001-05:002022-04-16T00:00:00.205-05:00NestA to Z Challenge Nest and necklace? Nest the necklace? Nested necklace? Hmmm. Three beginnings? Maybe. Three endings? Or we could say, “Necklace nested in the hollow of her throat?” How does that make sense? Ahh, too great of a conundrum so early in the morning. Been thinking I need to get the theme back into focus somewhere I can Mildred R Holmeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12859939075587298735noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8447222906127595537.post-79349451101210007362022-04-15T00:00:00.001-05:002022-04-15T00:00:00.196-05:00MisunderstandingA to Z Challenge Misunderstanding and mirror. Two of the most mismatched words I’ve ever come up with. What was I thinking? Perhaps I was tired. Course, I’d gotten the list from over to the Reedsy blog…wait, that was one of their generator thingamabobs I was experimenting with at one time. Hmm, now let me think…of I did a search somewhere and something popped.&Mildred R Holmeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12859939075587298735noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8447222906127595537.post-75907670688905011632022-04-14T00:00:00.006-05:002022-04-14T00:00:00.187-05:00Laundry Laundry and liner go together like laundry liner. Hahaha. Laundry liner. I can just hear the groans on that one. I’m giggling myself as I write this. My son just put his laundry in the washer bout an hour ago. Now it’s in the dryer. So I am sitting here looking at my laundry laying on the floor waiting for me to put it in the washer that’s right there. Mildred R Holmeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12859939075587298735noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8447222906127595537.post-85367518184209629422022-04-13T00:00:00.001-05:002022-04-13T00:00:00.205-05:00KaleidoscopeA to Z ChallengeKaleidoscope. Or Killjoy. Those two words are strangely related in my current situation. I chose kaleidoscope because I remember looking through the lens of the first one in my young life. Seems to me I remember watching a television program back in the day, perhaps on CBC station up in Fort Frances. Killjoy? Why that brings up memories of my uncle.&Mildred R Holmeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12859939075587298735noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8447222906127595537.post-17451028907190321152022-04-12T00:00:00.001-05:002022-04-12T00:00:00.195-05:00JasmineA to Z Challenge Jasmine, Juvenile or Jester were my choices last year. Hmm. In case you’re wondering, I’d wanted to do one word prompts for one of these challenges and thought I’d try last year. Hah. Looking at my last years calendar set up in my Scrivener program, I’d only done 2. A & B. Since reviewing my business plan, goals and other items Mildred R Holmeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12859939075587298735noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8447222906127595537.post-50183811072420974622022-04-11T00:00:00.005-05:002022-04-11T00:00:00.195-05:00IndigenousA to Z ChallengeIndigenous. I picked that for last year. I typed and deleted several words for this topic. I feel like there has been enough written about, by and for or been talked about, by and for indigenous people that anything more would be repetitious. Being that there are people who haven’t paid attention to or looked further than their own social circle doesn’t meanMildred R Holmeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12859939075587298735noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8447222906127595537.post-22018999920066112572022-04-09T00:00:00.009-05:002022-04-09T00:00:00.215-05:00HinterlandA to Z ChallengeHinterland. Yep. Had to look that up. Couldn’t remember why I’d picked that word last year. Still, I mostly use boondocks as that’s what I’d grown up hearing. Thinking that hinterland sounds more romantic. I do live in a hinterland. I’d found out through watching some series on the History Channel on the YouTube that Lake Superior was an Mildred R Holmeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12859939075587298735noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8447222906127595537.post-79947153362252143352022-04-08T00:00:00.019-05:002022-04-08T00:00:00.193-05:00GaspingA to Z ChallengeGasping. Haha. Thought I’d written Grasping. How the addition or deletion of one letter can change a word. Perhaps if I’d finished this challenge last year, I’d have caught it then. Well, it certainly can help me with this year’s theme. Cause both of them fit. How so?Well, I gasped with surprise when I found I’d accomplished a bit more Mildred R Holmeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12859939075587298735noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8447222906127595537.post-64236565176869561402022-04-07T00:00:00.004-05:002022-04-07T00:00:00.205-05:00Feast A to Z ChallengeFeast is one of the rewards I have planned for accomplishing each of my goals contained in my book plan. I have several books I have set up according the categories of things I want to do, be, have (Thanks Laura of HTGYST fame.) According to my traditions, we have feasts to celebrate accomplishments in our lives: first deer, thanks for manoomin (wild rice), job Mildred R Holmeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12859939075587298735noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8447222906127595537.post-41358516488925167042022-04-06T00:00:00.005-05:002022-04-06T00:00:00.204-05:00ElfA to Z Challenge Elf Etiquette. These were the two choices I had for last year's AtoZ. Was trying to just have one word. And hadn’t decided. Now, how do these fit into either accomplishing my dreams or the duality of 222? My current dream accomplishment is publishing books. Yes, there is an elf or two running through the series I have done. And Mildred R Holmeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12859939075587298735noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8447222906127595537.post-85767990741509506622022-04-05T00:00:00.009-05:002022-04-05T00:00:00.200-05:00DreamersA to Z Challenge Dreamers. Well this was a prompt of sorts for the last AtoZ I tried to do. Now’s a good time to finish since accomplishing the AtoZ challenge is my task for this year. I am a dreamer. Hmm. Sounds like a good prompt for a story doesn’t it. Well, mayhap I will use it one day. Or perhaps I already have, if the theory of the multi-verse is Mildred R Holmeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12859939075587298735noreply@blogger.com3