DW Davis
@DWDavis (25820)
Pikeville, North Carolina
Joined myLot 9 years ago
I am a self-published author, a writer for Total Fiction and The Fiction Writer's Den at Medium.com, and a recently retired grade school teacher.
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DW Davis
@DWDavis (25820)
• Pikeville, North Carolina
20 Mar
In Carolina Beach, there is a restaurant called The Dive. I have passed by it many times over the years but didn't stop in until yesterday.
Inside is a very nice restaurant and bar. Yesterday, their special was Build Your Own...
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DW Davis
@DWDavis (25820)
• Pikeville, North Carolina
7 Mar
The other day, @TheHorse asked me to show a photo of our Bradford Pears in bloom. The photo is of our small grove of Bradford Pear trees next to the driveway near the road. There are three trees there. One we planted and two...
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DW Davis
@DWDavis (25820)
• Pikeville, North Carolina
5 Mar
I wouldn't know. We haven't seen the actual Sun in days.
It has been cloudy, rainy, and warm, which is better, in my opinion, than cloudy, snowy, and cold.
I'm listening to Jodi Picoult's HARVESTING THE HEART while posting...
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DW Davis
@DWDavis (25820)
• Pikeville, North Carolina
1 Mar
and you were living in Sweden, today would be February 30.
Why?
I'm glad you asked.
It turns out that up until the 1700s, Sweden was still using the old Julian calendar and decided it wanted to switch to the more "modern"...
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DW Davis
@DWDavis (25820)
• Pikeville, North Carolina
29 Feb
Actually, I have been all along and didn't know it.
My mother has been going through some old papers her sisters left behind and found a document that shows my twice great-grandfather emigrated from Caricknamanna, County Donegal,...
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DW Davis
@DWDavis (25820)
• Pikeville, North Carolina
28 Feb
I ground just enough of yesterday's roasted beans to brew a cup of coffee in my French Press this morning. It came out very well. I limited myself to one cup.
I've been spending the morning posting promo blurbs for my books and...
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DW Davis
@DWDavis (25820)
• Pikeville, North Carolina
27 Feb
First thing this morning, I roasted a batch of coffee beans and it filled the house with the pleasant, to me anyway, scent of freshly roasted coffee.
The beans are resting in the sunroom after cooling off. They have to cool...
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DW Davis
@DWDavis (25820)
• Pikeville, North Carolina
24 Feb
Our Welsh Pembroke Corgi, Sophie, more officially known as Princess Sophia of Buzby Beach, earned her AKC Canine Good Citizen-Advanced certificate this past Thursday night. Earning the certificate involved passing 10 challenges of...
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DW Davis
@DWDavis (25820)
• Pikeville, North Carolina
23 Feb
Drab, dreary, gray, overcast, wet, and rainy. A Very Mondayish Friday. But at least it is relatively warm. 50F.
So, the US is back on the moon. Robotically, at least. Odysseus landed near the moon's south pole yesterday. The...
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DW Davis
@DWDavis (25820)
• Pikeville, North Carolina
20 Feb
but instead thought I'd give y'all a look at a flash fiction piece I wrote this morning after seeing a writing challenge on Twitter. I hope you enjoy it.
[i]On a dreary winter morning, after a night of freezing drizzle, I carried...
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DW Davis
@DWDavis (25820)
• Pikeville, North Carolina
19 Feb
Or, in those Canadian provinces that celebrate it as Family Day: Alberta, British Columbia, New Brunswick, Ontario, and Saskatchewan. On Prince Edward Island, it's called Islander Day. Other provinces and territories, as I...
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DW Davis
@DWDavis (25820)
• Pikeville, North Carolina
17 Feb
I have registered to attend a Writers' Workshop in March. As part of the workshop, I signed up to have two ten-minute pitches with two agents.
Now, I need to have something to pitch. I have decided on [i]A Princess for Buzby...
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DW Davis
@DWDavis (25820)
• Pikeville, North Carolina
16 Feb
I came across this expression today while reading one of the stories in James Buncie's Sydney Chambers and the Perils of the Night. The story was "Unholy Night."
My interest in etymology and the origin of words and phrases...
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DW Davis
@DWDavis (25820)
• Pikeville, North Carolina
15 Feb
At my Lions Club meeting today we had fun playing a round of Valentine's Jeopardy. There were 3 categories of 5 questions each: Romantic Movies, Pairs, and Romantic Couples. You could earn up to 3,000 points in each category.
I...
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DW Davis
@DWDavis (25820)
• Pikeville, North Carolina
15 Feb
Two reasons.
First: K had to get up at a ridiculous hour because of the monthly plant meetings held at work. At her plant, the 3rd shift ends, and 1st shift begins at 6 am. There is a joint meeting for the two shifts at 6. She...
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DW Davis
@DWDavis (25820)
• Pikeville, North Carolina
14 Feb
A Corny Valentine's Poem to go with the potted plant
Roses are Red
But they won't last
So, I got Calli Lilies
A blast from our past
They've not been cut
They're still alive
And if care is taken
Long will they thrive
Have no...
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DW Davis
@DWDavis (25820)
• Pikeville, North Carolina
14 Feb
This year there is an odd juxtaposition on the liturgical calendar. Valentine's Day and Ash Wednesday are on the same day. This happens from time to time. It last occurred on February 14, 2018. You have to go back to 1945 to find...
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DW Davis
@DWDavis (25820)
• Pikeville, North Carolina
13 Feb
I recently learned that my ancestral aunt Amelia Bassano Lanyer was the first published female poet in England. She was a contemporary of William Shakespeare.
How well did she know Shakespeare? There is no firm consensus on this...
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DW Davis
@DWDavis (25820)
• Pikeville, North Carolina
13 Feb
Yesterday we had a light rain all day. Today we will have wind and lots of it. Blustery days like this always remind me of Winnie the Pooh.
These blustery winds are going to usher in some colder air. The temps this morning were...
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DW Davis
@DWDavis (25820)
• Pikeville, North Carolina
12 Feb
It's an old joke among writers.
What's a writer's favorite breakfast sweet?
A synonym bun.
The reason I bring this up is that my missus used our air fryer to bake mini-cinnamon buns this weekend. She sent home 1/2 of them with...
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