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The Table 2. Top Story - September 2024.
An empty table where are the people to enjoy the space. (An empty table could mean a lot of things to me. One reason for an empty table is because there is no family. Another reason for an empty table there could be no food, but still another reason for an empty table could be that no care to show up just to be together food or no food. A table's purpose to bring together those who care and share what is important with one another. I know in today's society its main purpose is to be a vehicle to serve and eat food with very little meaningful conversation except for maybe 'Pass the butter." or "Pass the ketchup." No one really shares their day around the table anymore maybe because they are so busy from school and work and other activities. There is one day or two that there is that allows for conversation even though there is a lot of passing around of food. One just has to listen to the others around the table.)
By Mark Grahamabout a year ago in Critique
The Family Table
A table waiting for a family to gather togetherness now.
By Mark Grahamabout a year ago in Critique
The Women
Here is a novel written by Kristin Hannah entitled 'The Women'. It is a novel of the women who were nurses serving during the Vietnam War. The main character, who goes by the name of Frankie is the focus of the story and how she comes to grips about herself from someone who wants to make her family proud to a person who just wants to be accepted for what she has accomplished. Frankie is a new nurse who decides she wants to serve her country in Vietnam as a way to be close to a brother who was killed over there. She goes even though her parents are against it, and she should just get married and have children as this was the time that women could really only be nurses, teachers or secretaries other than mothers.
By Mark Grahamabout a year ago in Critique
Recovery
Recovery what does it mean? There are many ways to define recovery and I am going to describe it in my own words. Recovery is when a person is recuperating from an activity usually after an activity of some kind. A runner can recover (rest) after a race, a patient recovers after surgery, a groundskeeper recovers after completing various outdoor jobs, etc. How one recovers depend on what one has done.
By Mark Grahamabout a year ago in Critique
Blizzard
After reading another creators poem on snow it kind of made me homesick for a good down-home blizzard from the North. Even though it is hot and humid in the Deep South where I live now, I really miss the cold and snow from the North for it is September and it supposed to start getting chilly now but not here in Louisiana, and I actually think it's getting more humid. Snow has it hazards, and you know what I mean, but it so pretty and I always like watching it fall covering everything. For the last few weeks or say a month all I want is cool weather for I will accept highs in the 50's now for that would be better than 90's and 100's.
By Mark Grahamabout a year ago in Critique
More books
How many books can one really read? I am a person that would rather read a book than do anything else. Reading books for me is a way to learn new ideas and things to do other than just a way to relax with a cup of tea or coffee, but maybe can of beer. Books are my friend, and I am finding out how many books that one can really read and being a book reviewer helps a lot.
By Mark Grahamabout a year ago in Critique
Electric typewriter
The image is one of an old electric typewriter that has probably typed quite a bit of work by various writers of all kinds. This is an image of an electric typewriter that I also had at one time. I remember the buzz sound it made when you turned it on the element scanned across the platen as you waited to start typing whatever you had planned, whether it be a story, poem, or term paper. It still had the clickity clack sound of an old manual, but one did not have to punch the keys so hard as one had to do on a manual.
By Mark Grahamabout a year ago in Critique
The Butler
It has been a while since I read a Danielle Steel novel and this one entitled 'The Butler' is quite the fun page-turner. It is about two families that are very similar. One is about Joachim and the other Oliva, an Argentinian and an American. Joachim is a mirror twin, who is a butler, who meets Oliva when she needs an assistant for a job that she needs help doing, but there is one thing each of them will need to get over some very sad events that occurred in their pasts. This is a family story that covers the globe, and one will see that friendship can lead to other things.
By Mark Grahamabout a year ago in Critique
HeartBreaker
Sarah MacLean has written a historical romance entitled 'HeartBreaker'. This is the story of a young woman who wants to help her sex be able to find their own love matches instead of them being arranged by family. She believes in love even though during her time marriage was to have children and improve family standings. On a mission she meets and works with another person a man who is a Duke. Adelaide and Henry are the two main characters who start out hating but find ways to help each other out in various situations. This is quite the fun read and the cover is what made me pick the book up and read for the face of the woman seemed intriguing.
By Mark Grahamabout a year ago in Critique
What is sketching?
So, what is sketching? Sketching is an artistic form that is the very beginnings of a drawing or a painting of an object of some kind. An object could be just about anything from the common fruit bowl to a tree to a house, etc. To me sketching is just a way to relax and have fun. As some say a picture is like a thousand words. Artists are writers and writers are artists. One uses pictures and one uses words. To me these two careers are compatible with each other. What would a book especially a children's or youth book be without pictures or at least some illustrations. I think adult books even have illustrations at times if I'm not mistaken.
By Mark Grahamabout a year ago in Critique
