Search where?

This Portfolio (heartburn)

All of Writing.Com

◄ November ►
S	M	T	W	T	F	S
						1
2	3	4	5	6	7	8
9	10	11	12	13	14	15
16	17	18	19	20	21	22
23	24	25	26	27	28	29
30
Archive				RSS

Create New Item

Read & Review

Community

Browse By Type

Browse By Genre

Writing Resources

Wed, Nov 12, 2025

1:45am EST

Members: 629

Guests: 6,870

Total Online: 7,499

SPONSORED ITEMS

Writing.Com Images For Upgraded Members

Need a new look? Grab a Writing.Com image to spice up your posts and emails!

Noticing Newbies

A warm welcome to our newbies; come meet new and not-so-new members of Writing.Com!

My Thoughts

Thoughts going thru my mind at any given time.

The Writer's Cramp

Write the best poem or story in 24 hours or less and win 10K GPS!

BY ONLINE AUTHORS

Castle's Chessboard

Random Writing, Blogs and Adventures

Under a Wider Sky

Cowboys & Witches...naturally.

Request An Upgrade From RAOK

Where you can request an upgrade from RAOK.

My World Of Hopes, Dreams, Fantasies

Entries for various Blog Challenges.I will be expressing my hopes, dreams and fantasies.

READ A NEWBIE

Thousand+ Words for Nov. 3, 2025

Climer was Asleep when the Collision Bell Sounded; it was Such an Unusual Sound....

The shortcut that never was

A shortcut gone wrong teaches patience, friendship, and endurance.

Crumpled flower

Two individuals unaware about each other’s feelings, could this be fate.

Homemade

To cook a special dinner for her mother's birthday, a woman must break into a house.

BY ONLINE AUTHORS

Under a Wider Sky

Cowboys & Witches...naturally.

Castle's Chessboard

Random Writing, Blogs and Adventures

Jots and Tittles and other Random Things

Just things that I think about now and then.

My World Of Hopes, Dreams, Fantasies

Entries for various Blog Challenges.I will be expressing my hopes, dreams and fantasies.

Printed from https://web1.writing.com/main/profile/blog/heartburn/day/11-11-2025

$\"Reading$

(4)

Details

Can We Talk 2

by Pumpkin Pie & Coffee

Rated: 13+ · Book · Family · #2058371

Musings on anything.

My blog was filled up. I'm too lazy to clean it out. So I started a new one.

Show Recent Comments

10 Most Recent Blog Comments:

Jeff

Nov 1, 2025 at 7:58pm
In response to "New Adventure"

Where we live, our waste management actively discourages us from going to the landfill ourselves. They charge something like $75 per load you want to dispose of. The only way that would be cheaper than a month of residential waste removal services would be if I had a huge truck or a trailer to haul multiple months' worth of trash all in one go.

Jeff

Oct 20, 2025 at 10:45pm
In response to "Recyclables"

I used to have a hard time letting stuff go if it was just going to be thrown in the trash. But like you, I tend to use stuff (especially clothing) until it wears out, so I've had to come to terms with the fact that I got my money's worth out of it and nobody needs a shirt with a hole in it, or a pair of shoes with no treads on them anymore.

Soldier_Mike

Oct 19, 2025 at 10:33pm
In response to "Decluttering"

I don't feel I've acquired much, since my wife passed. On the other hand, I've not made much of an effort to "thin the herd" either, so I think I have a fairly good picture of what you're facing. Best of luck!

Jeff

Oct 11, 2025 at 4:18pm
In response to "Anticipation"

Congratulations on getting a new computer! Sounds like it will definitely be a relief once you're all set up at home with your wifi so you don't have to go to the library anymore!

1 Like

Jeff

Oct 3, 2025 at 5:43pm
In response to "Dental Hygienists"

I have the same issue with my dentist. They really push to have their clients come in every six months, but if I ever have to reschedule, they go, "Well the next available appointment we have is four months from now."

Kåre เลียม Enga

Sep 22, 2025 at 5:20pm
In response to "Clothing Center"

I bought 4 pair of second-hand socks today... hopefully woolen. They are kinder to my feet.

I mostly wear second-hand clothes. A few items I've had for over 15 years.

Kåre เลียม Enga

Sep 22, 2025 at 5:16pm
In response to "Marigolds"

I had a friend who could grow four-o'clocks along her foundation. Some perennials are semi-hardy. My geraniums are geriatric. I only have two left.

I have a marigold coming up from seed now but I'll be gone 5 weeks. We'll see.

Kåre เลียม Enga

Sep 22, 2025 at 5:11pm
In response to "Unisex Bathrooms?"

Single occupant toilet rooms may be the future; but, I still remember a unisex bathroom in Turkey with individual enclosed stalls (not semi-open which is common in the US).

Amethyst Autumn Angel

Aug 29, 2025 at 3:23pm
In response to "Is Being Old So Bad?"

Good thoughts here

I marvel at the things I'll be able to tell my grandkids about someday. Life is accelerating - or maybe it just feels that way!

Take care

Soldier_Mike

Aug 28, 2025 at 11:36pm
In response to "Birthday Parties"

It's cool you got to spend time with family, even if some of that time was threatened by a decibel-level event.

I completely sympathize with your desire to declutter. I have more stuff than you can shake a stick at that didn't actually belong to just my wife or myself throughout the house.

November 11, 2025 at 2:21pm

#1101400

Flanders Field Poem for Veterans

In Flanders Fields

In Flanders fields, the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie,
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

by John McCrae, 1915

This poem is for those who have died for their country in a specific time and place by a Canadian soldier. But it stands the test of time and honors all who lost their lives. It honors the living who carried on the battle, and those who have not been to battle yet, but want to carry on the legacy.
I like to read this every Veterans Day. Those of us who never go to battle can honor them and do what we can to pass the torch.

Comment

© Copyright 2025 Pumpkin Pie & Coffee (UN: heartburn at Writing.Com). All rights reserved.
Pumpkin Pie & Coffee has granted Writing.Com, its affiliates and its syndicates non-exclusive rights to display this work.

Printed from https://web1.writing.com/main/profile/blog/heartburn/day/11-11-2025