\"Writing.Com
*Magnify*
SPONSORED LINKS
Printed from https://www.writing.com/main/profile/blog/sgcardin/month/10-1-2024
Image Protector
Rated: GC · Book · Personal · #1051691
Life, Adventure, Family, Writing what else is there? Random thoughts.
WELCOME TO:

GEMINI RISING

Banner for my blog, "Gemini Rising"

*Flower1* *Flower1* *Flower1* *Flower1* *Flower1* *Flower1*

UPDATED INTRO 28 MAY 2024:

Just a little about me. I've been married for 32 years this past NOV and currently live in Southern California, but I grew up in New Hampshire.

I've got 2 boys who are young adults.

I work as a 911 dispatcher for LAPD. I enjoy my job a lot. Still. If you can believe that.

I love to write. Thankfully both of my boys achieved Eagle Scout. My Scouting days are over and I'm back to focusing on my writing.

I like to get out in nature, drink coffee and watch football.

Here's a little bio about my zodiac.

GEMINI: Gemini, the sign of the Twins, is dual-natured, elusive, complex and contradictory. On the one hand it produces the virtue of versatility, and on the other the vices of two-facedness and flightiness. The sign is linked with Mercury, the planet of childhood and youth, and its subjects tend to have the graces and faults of the young. When they are good, they are very attractive; when they are bad they are more the worse for being the charmers they are. Like children they are lively, and happy, if circumstances are right for them, or egocentric, imaginative and restless.

Their good qualities are attractive and come easily to them. They are affectionate, courteous, kind, generous, and thoughtful towards the poor and suffering - provided none of the activities resulting from expressing these traits interferes too greatly with their own lives and comforts.

Geminians can be successful in many walks of life though their general characteristics tend to make them unreliable. They are often skilled manipulators of language, in speech and writing, and may be: debaters, diplomats (though in politics they are more interested in theory than practice), orators, preachers (brilliant rather than profound), teachers, authors, poets, journalists, or lawyers.


*Flower1* *Flower1* *Flower1* *Flower1* *Flower1* *Flower1*


This is me. I am a Gemini. Pure, Raw, passionate.

The NEW focus of this blog is to share my adventures, travels, random thoughts, book reviews, thoughts, opinions, and writing adventures from actual writing, writing/editing tips, marketing, research. I'll get there.

*Flower1* *Flower1* *Flower1* *Flower1* *Flower1* *Flower1*

BLOG ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

SEPTEMBER 2024:

I participated in the
Image Protector
FORUM
Blog Week Birthday Bastion 2024 Open in new Window. (13+)
Blogging event from September 1-7, 2024. Closed.
#2277665 by WakeUpAndLive~doingNaNo'24 Author IconMail Icon
which was a big challenge for me due to my schedule, but I hunkered down and got it done. There's some great entries for the contest and the blog earned the following:

Merit Badge in Nonfiction
[Click For More Info]

Congrats on your Honorable Mention in Blog Week Birthday Bastion 2024

Big thanks to WakeUpAndLive~doingNaNo'24 Author IconMail Icon for hosting the contest!

OCTOBER 2024:

I participated in the
Image Protector
FORUM
13 Poetic Days of Halloween Contest 2025 Open in new Window. (E)
Let your spooky poetry shine. Opens Oct. 13th. - closes 12:00am Oct 26th WDC time.
#2328177 by Lyn's a Witchy Woman Author IconMail Icon
which honestly was a big challenge for me considering my schedule, and again I hunkered down and did it! There's some great poetry to be found this October and the blog earned the following:

Merit Badge in Halloween
[Click For More Info]

Congratulations on completing the 13 Poetic Days of Halloween.

Big Thanks to Lyn's a Witchy Woman Author IconMail Icon for hosting the contest!



Find me at:

WEBSITE:
http://www.stephanieburkhart.com

FACEBOOK:
https://www.facebook.com/StephanieBurkhartAuthor

GOOD READS:
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4031660.Stephanie_Burkhart

YOU TUBE CHANNEL:
http://www.youtube.com/user/botrina?feature=mhee

Previous GRATITIOUS Warning, that I decided to keep in case I post about something that might offend.

*Exclaim* WARNING *Exclaim*

I intend to be open, honest, and forthright. No topic is off limits from religion to you name it, I'm going there. If you think you might be offended...back up now - this blog isn't for you. For those who "dare" *Wink* check out the "Gemini Rising..."


Another Signature
Previous ... -1- 2 ... Next
October 31, 2024 at 11:39pm
October 31, 2024 at 11:39pm
#1079273

October was Lilli 🧿 ☕ Author IconMail Icon WDC Anniversary month and since I love to give anniversary reviews, I started with her port, and honestly, I didn't want to leave it. What an amazing port she has!! There's so much to do, find, and read. Lilli is truly prolific!

Lilli also hosts the Quill awards. As I was checking out her port and dropping reviews, I found her quill items.

Honestly, I don't get many Quill awards during the year. Currently, my story
 
Image Protector
STATIC
The Cutting Edge Open in new Window. (E)
Who's the best Ice Skater?
#2313648 by StephBee Author IconMail Icon
has a nomination, and I'm very happy to have it.

I'd like to ask you to check out some of items and see if they are worthy of Quill nominations. If so, it is very much appreciated.

Here is where you can go to nominate items:
Image Protector
SURVEY
Quill Nomination Form 2024 Open in new Window. (E)
Nominate someone for a Quill!
#2145930 by Lilli 🧿 ☕ Author IconMail Icon


For your consideration:

Flash Fiction:
 
Image Protector
STATIC
Tanzanian Peabodies Open in new Window. (E)
The best coffee is smuggled with love.
#2318029 by StephBee Author IconMail Icon


Short Story, Medium Length:
 
Image Protector
STATIC
Spices, Jerk, and Chili  Open in new Window. (E)
Junior is happy enough to let Derice lead, but when it comes to chili...
#2316949 by StephBee Author IconMail Icon


Med length, structured poem
 
Image Protector
STATIC
Pennywise Open in new Window. (ASR)
A Rondeau horror poem
#2329791 by StephBee Author IconMail Icon


Med Length, free verse:
 
Image Protector
STATIC
Trouble, Trouble Burning Bright Open in new Window. (ASR)
A meeting under Moonlight
#2317753 by StephBee Author IconMail Icon


Best Contest:
Image Protector
FORUM
The Bard's Hall Contest Open in new Window. (13+)
NOVEMBER: Comedy... Thanksgiving with the Family
#981150 by StephBee Author IconMail Icon


Best Activity: For it's monthly/semi-monthly challenge
Image Protector
FORUM
Steph Bee's Honey Pit  Open in new Window. (E)
NOV 2024 - hang out with theBees and enjoy the Honey. NEW challenge for 1-15 NOV is OUT!
#1474097 by StephBee Author IconMail Icon


Best Group:
 
Image Protector
GROUP
Steph Bee's Bee Hive Open in new Window. (E)
Steph Bee's Home for Busy Bees and the Honey Pit
#1134558 by StephBee Author IconMail Icon


Best of the rest:
 
Image Protector
QUIZ
Action & Adventure Movie Quiz Open in new Window. (E)
How well do you know your Action/Adventure Movies?
#2328288 by StephBee Author IconMail Icon

 
Image Protector
QUIZ
When Harry met Sally Quiz Open in new Window. (E)
Questions about a movie classic.
#2325988 by StephBee Author IconMail Icon

 
Image Protector
SEARCH
Looking for Samhain Open in new Window. (E)
A word search all about Halloween & Spooky things
#2328065 by StephBee Author IconMail Icon


Again, I really appreciate you guys checking out the above items and considering them for a Quill Award!
Smiles
Steph

October 25, 2024 at 5:35pm
October 25, 2024 at 5:35pm
#1078931
Goooood afternoon all -- here is Day 13 - Halloween

Free Verse

Image Protector
FORUM
13 Poetic Days of Halloween Contest 2025 Open in new Window. (E)
Let your spooky poetry shine. Opens Oct. 13th. - closes 12:00am Oct 26th WDC time.
#2328177 by Lyn's a Witchy Woman Author IconMail Icon


Halloween

Nineteen Sixty Three
Classic – original
A boy with secrets
A boy haunted by abuse

Death is macabre
Death is chilling
When it’s by knife
Death is murder
And murder is jail

Escape is daunting
Escape is another killing
Of Another sister
Doctor and patient
Who hunts the haunted?

What can stop the mystical?
What can stop determined evil?
Gun? Fear? Knife? Screams?
Death destroys the evil that is Myers
Or does it?

** Daily happenings and musings will be in a separate post.

October 24, 2024 at 6:21pm
October 24, 2024 at 6:21pm
#1078874
Goood afternoon all -- Here is my Day 12 entry: Ode to Chucky

Image Protector
FORUM
13 Poetic Days of Halloween Contest 2025 Open in new Window. (E)
Let your spooky poetry shine. Opens Oct. 13th. - closes 12:00am Oct 26th WDC time.
#2328177 by Lyn's a Witchy Woman Author IconMail Icon


An Ode is a poem praising and glorifying a person, place or thing.


Voodoo, Voodoo all around
Foul runs aground
Murder, murder in the streets
Resurrection in the sheets
Chucky

A doll with murderous intent
Given life by a voodoo murderer
Owned by a boy with no lament
Chucky is no nurturer

He torments, he teases,
Poor Andy has no believers.
In a home without his mother,
The doll is still a cutter.

Chucky despises the living
And yet he wants to live
He has no accomplishments
Only death and destruction
A doll above no others

* Daily happenings and musing will be in a separate post.

October 23, 2024 at 7:28pm
October 23, 2024 at 7:28pm
#1078817
Gooood afternoon all -- Here is my Day 10 Entry - Rondeau

Image Protector
FORUM
13 Poetic Days of Halloween Contest 2025 Open in new Window. (E)
Let your spooky poetry shine. Opens Oct. 13th. - closes 12:00am Oct 26th WDC time.
#2328177 by Lyn's a Witchy Woman Author IconMail Icon


A Rondeau is a French form, 15 lines long, consisting of three stanzas: a quintet, a quatrain, and a sestet with a rhyme scheme as follows: aabba aabR aabbaR. Lines 9 and 15 are short - a refrain (R) consisting of a phrase taken from line one. The other lines are longer (but all of the same metrical length).

Pennywise


It hides in the dark
Looking for a mark
Disguised as your greatest fear
It can hear your heartbeat near
Hold open your palm, feel the spark

Sludge and stench provides a home
Vacant small streets it roams
Autumn leaves thick in the park
It hides in the dark

It changes its face
To four losers, a game, a race
Losers hunt silver
Hoping to find It, the killer
There is no fairytale arc
It hides in the dark


*Author's Note: Daily happenings and musings will be in a separate post.
October 22, 2024 at 6:41pm
October 22, 2024 at 6:41pm
#1078753
Gooood afternoon all!! - Here is my Day 9 entry for Acrostic poetry.

Image Protector
FORUM
13 Poetic Days of Halloween Contest 2025 Open in new Window. (E)
Let your spooky poetry shine. Opens Oct. 13th. - closes 12:00am Oct 26th WDC time.
#2328177 by Lyn's a Witchy Woman Author IconMail Icon


WITCH HAZEL

Wordly
Imhotep
Tomb
Carnahan
Hunter

Horus
Ankh
Zealot
Egyptologist
Lizards


I some inspiration from the 1999 movie, "The Mummy"

Authors note: Daily happenings and musings will be in a separate note.
October 21, 2024 at 10:03pm
October 21, 2024 at 10:03pm
#1078712
Goooood evening all !Here is my Day 9 entry - Quatrain

Image Protector
FORUM
13 Poetic Days of Halloween Contest 2025 Open in new Window. (E)
Let your spooky poetry shine. Opens Oct. 13th. - closes 12:00am Oct 26th WDC time.
#2328177 by Lyn's a Witchy Woman Author IconMail Icon


Norman Bates


Nothing like the power of the mind,
In the dark, makes one blind.
Attractive man all alone
Inside the mind a cyclone.

Abuse undercover of the night,
Secures a man’s plight.
The first kill is forever
The mind will never surrender.

Tortured, terrible, mind racing
His spirit in denial, his body shaking
Sweat on the brow
Evil in control now

Killed his mother, killed his friend
There is nothing to mend
He’s a psycho
A finely constructed killing maestro

**Author's note: daily happenings and musings will be in a separate post.
October 20, 2024 at 7:21pm
October 20, 2024 at 7:21pm
#1078642
Gooooood afternoon all! Here is my Day 8 entry - Epitaph

Image Protector
FORUM
13 Poetic Days of Halloween Contest 2025 Open in new Window. (E)
Let your spooky poetry shine. Opens Oct. 13th. - closes 12:00am Oct 26th WDC time.
#2328177 by Lyn's a Witchy Woman Author IconMail Icon


An epitaph is a brief poem inscribed on a tombstone praising a deceased person, usually with rhyming lines.

Maleficent

Here lies the protector of the Moors
Scorned, the land turned a dark door
Bitter, she sought revenge
Hoping to avenge
Love’s light lost
But there is always a cost
When evil plays it’s heavy hand
Across a beautiful decimated land



*Authors note: Daily happenings and musings will be in a separate post.
October 19, 2024 at 3:58pm
October 19, 2024 at 3:58pm
#1078591
Gooood afternoon all - here is my day #7 entry for Sonnets

Image Protector
FORUM
13 Poetic Days of Halloween Contest 2025 Open in new Window. (E)
Let your spooky poetry shine. Opens Oct. 13th. - closes 12:00am Oct 26th WDC time.
#2328177 by Lyn's a Witchy Woman Author IconMail Icon

A Shakespearean (English) sonnet has three quatrains and a couplet, and rhymes abab cdcd efef gg.


Ichabod Crane

Early the years, a tale of Ichabod Crane
In a sleepy town, full of legends old
Potions, poultices, witches, ghosts, and hensbane
Fortune favors the young and the bold

Tall and lanky, keen to share a rumor
He charmed a town with gossip, but not all
Supernatural tales with vitreous humor
The heart of a dear one put up a wall

Denied and refused, he left in a fog
Danger afoot, headless, dark, ruthless head
Ichabod fled, over the wooden log
Sneering, and cruel, pumpkin pitch posted dread

Ichabod earned a dastardly ill fate
Never to possess a beautiful mate


**Author's note: Daily happenings and musings will be in a separate post.
October 18, 2024 at 7:57pm
October 18, 2024 at 7:57pm
#1078539
I wanted to blog today, but my health post about Olive oil isn’t quite ready so I went online and searched blog topics. Needless to say, I was overwhelmed. There’s money topics, fashion topics, blog what you know, blog a day in your life, food topics, sport topics, I’m overwhelmed. Haha.

A day in my life isn’t interesting to me but it might be to some people so here goes.

First off, I’m on the night watch my day is your night and my night is your day. I usually get home at 7 am and if I’m lucky, I sleep until 2 pm. I told my husband that if I had to go to the night shift that sleep was a priority because if I don’t get enough sleep I turn into a bitch and I don’t want to be that person. Mind you, I don’t sleep until 2 every day. Mondays I wake up at 11 to take boy #2 to college. I’ll get up at 2, organize boy #2 schoolwork, do dishes, do laundry, run errands, get online check the email and then go powernap between 4-8 pm. From 8-9 I do personal hygiene, eat a light “dinner” pack up and drive to work.

When I get to work, I prepare the coffee. We have roll call and then report to our assignments. For the last 8 months, I’ve been assisting the Training Coordinator Supervisor so I rarely get an assignment to answer the 911 phones. The assignment is a nice break from the phones, but it’s all about paperwork. I review Instructor dailies that they wrote on their trainees, hunt down signatures, make online folders, organize and file paperwork, make sure instructors and trainees have conferences and take assessments. On my lunch break, I usually power nap because I’m tired. It’s not easy working at night. I get off bet 615 and 630 and go home.

If I have down time, which isn’t much, I’m reading or writing on hanging out on WDC.

If anyone has any questions about answering 911 or dispatching calls to officers, I’m game to answer them.

October 18, 2024 at 7:26pm
October 18, 2024 at 7:26pm
#1078536
Gooooood afternoon all -- Here is my Day 6 entry: Casper

A Limerick is a rhymed humorous or nonsense poem of five lines which originated in Limerick, Ireland. The Limerick has a set rhyme scheme of : a-a-b-b-a with a syllable structure of: 9-9-6-6-9.

for
Image Protector
FORUM
13 Poetic Days of Halloween Contest 2025 Open in new Window. (E)
Let your spooky poetry shine. Opens Oct. 13th. - closes 12:00am Oct 26th WDC time.
#2328177 by Lyn's a Witchy Woman Author IconMail Icon



Casper was a ghost that walked through walls
He spooked all, old and young in the halls
Some were dainty, some poor
All folks lunged for the door
After that, Casper smile like dolls


I'll be honest, this one was tough. I don't have a knack for limericks.

**Author's note: Daily happenings and musings will be in a separate post.

17 Entries · *Magnify*
Page of 2 · 10 per page   < >
Previous ... -1- 2 ... Next

© Copyright 2024 StephBee (UN: sgcardin at Writing.Com). All rights reserved.
StephBee has granted Writing.Com, its affiliates and its syndicates non-exclusive rights to display this work.

Printed from https://www.writing.com/main/profile/blog/sgcardin/month/10-1-2024