Writer. Best New Writing, Dos Passos Review, Danse Macabre, Atticus Review, Corvus Review, etc. (Also pub. under Meg) I write #flashfiction & #shortstories w/elements of #magicalrealism, #fabulism, #absurdism, and/or #horror. Much of my work is set in Florida. #Bipolar 2 #CancerSurvivor #diabetes type2. MFA. Seminary grad but "too creative" for ministry. lols. Freelance Writer/Editor. Mom. Pop culture junkie. American citizen. Working stiff.
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Last Notes npub1nptlerg7pyewx3kjwmhwg9rutdwhchd5qk6n5xn6j0kxc4rc4fmsdu4r50 Margaret Moonshadow Graham Platner....Are we ever going to learn that someone like this isn't going to make decisions selflessly as a public servant. npub1nptlerg7pyewx3kjwmhwg9rutdwhchd5qk6n5xn6j0kxc4rc4fmsdu4r50 Margaret Moonshadow I just want to warn you that when you order crackers from a health food store that are advertised as ''all of the crunch, none of the compromise,'' what you will get is ''all of the crunch, none of the flavor.'' npub1nptlerg7pyewx3kjwmhwg9rutdwhchd5qk6n5xn6j0kxc4rc4fmsdu4r50 Margaret Moonshadow Last night, I dreamt I mourned my mother. Well, it wasn't my mother, and it may not have been me in the role of mourner. I did not recognize myself. My heart had broken as if from a drought. There were other mourners too and we mourned our mothers together. I felt this community of mourners and normal feelings and beautiful mothers and feelings of devastation. #mastoprompt #drought #microfiction @npub1fle…xae8 npub1nptlerg7pyewx3kjwmhwg9rutdwhchd5qk6n5xn6j0kxc4rc4fmsdu4r50 Margaret Moonshadow Haha. Apt. And I love this photo. Made me smile. npub1nptlerg7pyewx3kjwmhwg9rutdwhchd5qk6n5xn6j0kxc4rc4fmsdu4r50 Margaret Moonshadow This is impeccable. And I feel the bird's attention and ready-to-launch posture. npub1nptlerg7pyewx3kjwmhwg9rutdwhchd5qk6n5xn6j0kxc4rc4fmsdu4r50 Margaret Moonshadow I would take it as one to give away. If you post it to sell somewhere, send me the link.... npub1nptlerg7pyewx3kjwmhwg9rutdwhchd5qk6n5xn6j0kxc4rc4fmsdu4r50 Margaret Moonshadow This space has been so valuable to me. npub1nptlerg7pyewx3kjwmhwg9rutdwhchd5qk6n5xn6j0kxc4rc4fmsdu4r50 Margaret Moonshadow My small apartment porch would not be considered a "Southern porch," though it is south facing and I cram it with many plants. The house in North Carolina our family used to own--eventually, it was devastated by Helene--was home to many memories on the wrap-around. I love all the authors cited above, and have read a lot of Reynolds Price. I had to buy this, either to keep or gift to an apropos recipient. npub1nptlerg7pyewx3kjwmhwg9rutdwhchd5qk6n5xn6j0kxc4rc4fmsdu4r50 Margaret Moonshadow I need to give that a whirl. Thank you. npub1nptlerg7pyewx3kjwmhwg9rutdwhchd5qk6n5xn6j0kxc4rc4fmsdu4r50 Margaret Moonshadow I find I am grinding my teeth and I don't have dental insurance anymore. Thank you, Trump, the GOP. I should go and find a diversion. npub1nptlerg7pyewx3kjwmhwg9rutdwhchd5qk6n5xn6j0kxc4rc4fmsdu4r50 Margaret Moonshadow We could all ignore a certain windbag if our government was actually functioning. If we had a court. npub1nptlerg7pyewx3kjwmhwg9rutdwhchd5qk6n5xn6j0kxc4rc4fmsdu4r50 Margaret Moonshadow Merry the day after. npub1nptlerg7pyewx3kjwmhwg9rutdwhchd5qk6n5xn6j0kxc4rc4fmsdu4r50 Margaret Moonshadow I'll be around Christmas Eve. If anyone is around, I'm here if you want to say hi. I don't know why I say this. Only to say, if you're alone, you're not alone in being alone. Or if you are with others, including family, sometimes situations can feel challenging. You're not alone. Say hi. I'll be poking around, saying hi. I work Christmas Day, but I'll be around Christmas Eve. 🎄 npub1nptlerg7pyewx3kjwmhwg9rutdwhchd5qk6n5xn6j0kxc4rc4fmsdu4r50 Margaret Moonshadow I told my son I wasn't giving presents this year, then I woke up inspired. 😆 This sweet album is my news alternative and brings me some peace. I don't have a record player, but if I did, this would be in my collection. I bought him Miles Davis Kind of Blue this past fall for his birthday, also something I would have, so this is jazzy album gifting saga part 2. I hope when I see him face to face over the holidays, I can get a feel for whether or not future sagas are advisable. 🎄 npub1nptlerg7pyewx3kjwmhwg9rutdwhchd5qk6n5xn6j0kxc4rc4fmsdu4r50 Margaret Moonshadow I would be ok with a Trump coin. I just need to find a railroad track around here. npub1nptlerg7pyewx3kjwmhwg9rutdwhchd5qk6n5xn6j0kxc4rc4fmsdu4r50 Margaret Moonshadow Yes, it's a fair chunk. lols. They look kinda cool, actually, a very mysterious creature but prone to lawn destruction, and especially around the foundations of buildings. It's a weird little thing. Some of them carry leprosy. npub1nptlerg7pyewx3kjwmhwg9rutdwhchd5qk6n5xn6j0kxc4rc4fmsdu4r50 Margaret Moonshadow I went out on a limb and had a #vinyl record of the Miles Davis album Kind of Blue, a limited edition that is an actual blue record, sent to my son. I don't know if he listens to or likes #jazz, but I offered it to him anyway, figuring if he wants to explore, this isn't such a bad start or if he already like it, might appreciate having it. So, we'll see. It's also something quality that I can actually afford, lols, so there's that. 💙 npub1nptlerg7pyewx3kjwmhwg9rutdwhchd5qk6n5xn6j0kxc4rc4fmsdu4r50 Margaret Moonshadow I wish I could capture the face of the nightly armadillo who scurries around our apartment building foundation I meet when I am on my way home from work, but the beady eyes in the armature would be too hard to capture. Night creatures are sometimes quite bold. npub1nptlerg7pyewx3kjwmhwg9rutdwhchd5qk6n5xn6j0kxc4rc4fmsdu4r50 Margaret Moonshadow 😆 npub1nptlerg7pyewx3kjwmhwg9rutdwhchd5qk6n5xn6j0kxc4rc4fmsdu4r50 Margaret Moonshadow Yes. So lovely. npub1nptlerg7pyewx3kjwmhwg9rutdwhchd5qk6n5xn6j0kxc4rc4fmsdu4r50 Margaret Moonshadow Love it. npub1nptlerg7pyewx3kjwmhwg9rutdwhchd5qk6n5xn6j0kxc4rc4fmsdu4r50 Margaret Moonshadow Gorgeous npub1nptlerg7pyewx3kjwmhwg9rutdwhchd5qk6n5xn6j0kxc4rc4fmsdu4r50 Margaret Moonshadow I made this "viral tiktok caramelized onion pasta recipe" along with blackened salmon and roasted zucchini. There are quite a few versions of this out there, its origins being among Italian Americans somewhere in the heartland. I followed this recipe and didn't add the basalmic in the sauce called for elsewhere and decided upon eating it, it needed a touch of something so added it to the finished dish along with extra salt. Pretty yummy. npub1nptlerg7pyewx3kjwmhwg9rutdwhchd5qk6n5xn6j0kxc4rc4fmsdu4r50 Margaret Moonshadow I couldn't believe the news yesterday, just couldn't believe it. I love this photo of a vulture tree. You photograph animals so compassionately, no matter their place in the animal hierarchy, their role. This is a lovely, artistic take. npub1nptlerg7pyewx3kjwmhwg9rutdwhchd5qk6n5xn6j0kxc4rc4fmsdu4r50 Margaret Moonshadow A family member asks me to pray for certain political leaders they know personally when they know I said how much I'm not for the head hancho of the party of those certain political leaders nor do I endorse the international policy these leaders promote. It's like I never said anything to this family member. I'd like to think the request appeals to my Christian generosity and faith we should pray for everyone, but I become suspicious sometimes it's about goading me. sigh. npub1nptlerg7pyewx3kjwmhwg9rutdwhchd5qk6n5xn6j0kxc4rc4fmsdu4r50 Margaret Moonshadow This is how God sees us, scrapping and making a ruckus in front of a feeder full. npub1nptlerg7pyewx3kjwmhwg9rutdwhchd5qk6n5xn6j0kxc4rc4fmsdu4r50 Margaret Moonshadow Amount owed after calling suicide hotline and taken to hospital: $7500. With friends like these, who needs doctors. npub1nptlerg7pyewx3kjwmhwg9rutdwhchd5qk6n5xn6j0kxc4rc4fmsdu4r50 Margaret Moonshadow In my married days, we lived at Andrews Air Force base in the officer's quarters and on Christmas Eve, there was someone rustling around at our door. Alarmed, we contacted the military police who ascertained that it was someone's mother, come to visit on Christmas, who in her demented state, wandered to our door to rearrange the decorations. npub1nptlerg7pyewx3kjwmhwg9rutdwhchd5qk6n5xn6j0kxc4rc4fmsdu4r50 Margaret Moonshadow I haven't watched/listened to any politics today. npub1nptlerg7pyewx3kjwmhwg9rutdwhchd5qk6n5xn6j0kxc4rc4fmsdu4r50 Margaret Moonshadow I took my son to San Franscisco when he was in high school. I was just a year out from my cancer treatment, and was so happy to have made the journey. One thing we did which was go to Alcatraz where Ai WeiWei was having an awareness-raising exhibit for artists who had been jailed or punished by dictatorial governments. And now, the irony that Trump is talking about closing the Alcatraz museum to reopen it as a prison...This was one of my faves: The use of facilities to house decorative flowers. npub1nptlerg7pyewx3kjwmhwg9rutdwhchd5qk6n5xn6j0kxc4rc4fmsdu4r50 Margaret Moonshadow I did Outward Bound as part of a leadership development course and to make it up a 14er in Colorado, we were given a topographical map and a compass. Also, I love old maps and guidebooks. In moving, I gave them away. Maybe you can be a lending library for them if the you-know-what goes down.💜 npub1nptlerg7pyewx3kjwmhwg9rutdwhchd5qk6n5xn6j0kxc4rc4fmsdu4r50 Margaret Moonshadow In the ward, we ate along the lines of the American diet--carb heavy, super processed, over salted, sugary. Occasionally, we got a small fresh salad, a banana. But last night I was craving the biscuits we had. Not super great, but they passed the biscuit test--soft, doughy, salty. I was craving one. I found my way to some white bread product--Sergio's, a NY pizza joint close to Embry Riddle. Their ''white pizza'' was fine. Could have used more garlic, but I was happy. npub1nptlerg7pyewx3kjwmhwg9rutdwhchd5qk6n5xn6j0kxc4rc4fmsdu4r50 Margaret Moonshadow I love it. I think Joan herself might appreciate that.💜 npub1nptlerg7pyewx3kjwmhwg9rutdwhchd5qk6n5xn6j0kxc4rc4fmsdu4r50 Margaret Moonshadow "It got very 'wokey.'" Trump on the Kennedy Center after making himself Kennedy Center Chair. I just read that Issa Rae canceled her sold-out show after Trump moved on the Kennedy Center like a you-know-what. npub1nptlerg7pyewx3kjwmhwg9rutdwhchd5qk6n5xn6j0kxc4rc4fmsdu4r50 Margaret Moonshadow Interesting! I was researching something about scoring them. Anyway, I ate my first today, and it was so delicious! npub1nptlerg7pyewx3kjwmhwg9rutdwhchd5qk6n5xn6j0kxc4rc4fmsdu4r50 Margaret Moonshadow On a lighter note, I am learning how to peel a Cara Cara orange. npub1nptlerg7pyewx3kjwmhwg9rutdwhchd5qk6n5xn6j0kxc4rc4fmsdu4r50 Margaret Moonshadow I love this photo. npub1nptlerg7pyewx3kjwmhwg9rutdwhchd5qk6n5xn6j0kxc4rc4fmsdu4r50 Margaret Moonshadow Great idea for when I'm driving. npub1nptlerg7pyewx3kjwmhwg9rutdwhchd5qk6n5xn6j0kxc4rc4fmsdu4r50 Margaret Moonshadow This deserves an award.🏆 npub1nptlerg7pyewx3kjwmhwg9rutdwhchd5qk6n5xn6j0kxc4rc4fmsdu4r50 Margaret Moonshadow In the aisles of the convenience store, the night manager is yelling about her, saying she needs to tough out her own training, to be left alone, unassisted. That is the only way she'll learn. The joy of it shifts abruptly, and she feels more painfully the numbness in her feet from the heavy industrial shoes. It takes several customers distracting her at the register before she can remember why she is there in the first place, before she smiles again. #mastoprompt #broken @npub1fle…xae8 npub1nptlerg7pyewx3kjwmhwg9rutdwhchd5qk6n5xn6j0kxc4rc4fmsdu4r50 Margaret Moonshadow Such a sweet, innocent face, but one could probably safely assume he has a scheme in mind for sneaky gobbling.
