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Odd O'blography

by Words Whirling 'Round

Rated: 18+ · Book · Biographical · #2257228

Tales from real life

Well, if they're not true, they oughta be!

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10 Most Recent Blog Comments:

dlspiritwriter 🙏☯️😻

May 26, 2024 at 3:07pm
In response to "Lost on Route 66"

I saved it to come back to later but from what I see it's quite lovely and accurate!
Do keep on writing!(I'm proofing our Blogging Bliss newsletter!)

Lyn's a Witchy Woman

May 22, 2024 at 12:17pm
In response to "Lost on Route 66"

I agree with you about family activities dying in most households. We don't watch much television but we do play a board game while having our evening dinner meal. It encourages us to eat slower and to have interesting conversations.

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Kåre Enga in Montana

Jan 19, 2024 at 9:34pm
In response to "The Ballad of Donny and Al"

Thank you. I haven't heard that song in ages.

It did get me thinking though. The Beatles trip to America (la reconquista?), George's interest in South Asia (and 'strange' instruments like the sitar), John's relationship with Oko... all very new and strange at the time. England was just opening up.

As for DJT. America loves being scammed.

Kåre Enga in Montana

Jan 11, 2024 at 4:47am
In response to "Loathsome Loser"

Cute. Good title.

My thoughts:
You can drop 'the cost' at the end of line 5. (line's a tad long)
Yes, he-who-should-not-be-named really won't face himself and admit that he might, just might, be wrong. (line 8)
I don't think of the courts as belonging to Biden (no suggestion as to what word to replace it)...
...and I really don't think it's political as much as the wannabe martyr cries that the prosecution is persecuting him. Yes, he's a loathsome loser. Yes, he keeps on lyin'.

Bonus points for not mentioning his name.

Kåre Enga in Montana

Jan 6, 2024 at 4:50am
In response to "Snow Day"

I have no such stories. I grew up in a factory town and we listened to the radio every time there was enough on the ground to hope...

But if I had to crawl to school I probably could have. It was a 5-7 minute run with my wet hair freezing along the way.

Kåre Enga in Montana

Dec 19, 2023 at 12:35am
In response to "Unsocial Media"

They were sometimes cast in the role of 'blunt object' in a murder mystery (the only thing you can murder with a smartphone is a person's reputation).

At my age I'm becoming less protective of my privacy; but, recent world events have brought to light the need for more privacy, not less. Nations are becoming very protective of their image, and journalists or even common citizens with an opinion are the target of their wrath.

Video of Floyd's murder was appropriate imho; but, mere finger pointing to destroy another's reputation (or false accusations like Giuliani did) is NOT.

Kåre Enga in Montana

Nov 19, 2023 at 9:04am
In response to "Playing Cards"

Impossible hands... I have watched pinochle and lots of bridge at the Senior Center. I won't play. I do like mahjong and love versions of rummy.

I have seen younger people playing cards but smart phones have blunted any need to connect to people face-to-face. It's quite sad.

I haven't played anything in a long time.

Simply Me

Oct 16, 2023 at 10:06pm
In response to "Happy Venus D!"

Having a mind like a grasshopper, what does that mean.? They must be brilliant, mathematical, prodigies.

ßlueyeʐ 💮

Oct 16, 2023 at 4:33pm
In response to "Habit of Force"

You made me look!

I gotta say I am in agreement with everything you said. I too am okay with near rhymes unless I am going for something like a true English Sonnet or other proper poetry. Then I try much harder to find exact rhymes.

I don't bat an eye when it comes to the plural/singular rhyme.

Awkward word order: like you said, happened a lot in my early poetry. I try not to do that these days.

Meter? I feel like if a poem is going to rhyme, it ought to have good meter as well. They seem to go hand in hand in my opinion. I'm a little more critical when it comes to meter, especially with poems with required meter.

Sight rhymes? Uggg! I don't get it! But a lot of the "old masters" did it.

Forced rhymes? I say it falls under the adage: First you need to learn the rules before you can break them. With your experience... you are definitely allowed to force a rhyme.

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Kåre Enga in Montana

Sep 15, 2023 at 8:46pm
In response to "Say What?"

"The Language of Anger and Outrage" could be an interesting treatise of the early 21st Century. The culture DEMANDS !!!! and social media reflects this and perpetuates it as well.

March 16, 2022 at 1:19pm

#1029039

Genealogy and the Scarlet Letter

Lilli 🧿 ☕

reminded us that The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne was first published on March 16, 1850.

"Note: Today in literary history... This morning Al..."

Her note reminded me that I found a possible, almost, sort-of connection to Hawthorne's story while researching genealogy. One of the branches of my family tree reaches back 14 generations to the Reverend Steven Bachiler. He is, by far, the most interesting character in our family history.

Steven Bachiler was a controversial English clergyman who was dismissed from his church in Hampshire, England, for having puritan sympathies. Born about 1560, he outlived three wives in England and married again in America after founding the community of Hampton, New Hampshire in 1638. Bachiler also feuded with Puritan church authorities, being both excommunicated and reinstated in 1641. He was almost 80 when he married his fourth wife, Mary Beedle. She was a much younger widow who was soon convicted of adultery. The Wikipedia article on Steven Bachiler notes that Mary may have been the inspiration for Hester Prynne in The Scarlet Letter.

I am a descendant of Bachiler's daughter, Ann Bachiler Sanborn, through my great-great-grandmother, Judith Sanborne Kennedy. Judith's daughter, Emily Kennedy Truscott, traveled all around America in the 1940's to trace the family history. She found the link to Stephen Bachiler through the Sanborn lineage. Judith's granddaughter, Anna Kennedy Fisher, is my grandmother. I confirmed the details of Emily's research on the WikiTree web site. Other notable descendants of Stephen Bachiler include Winston Churchill, James Dean, Christopher Lloyd, Herman Mudgett, and Meghan Markle.

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