Archive for category Beyond Meanderings
Getting rid of draft material
Posted by Leslie in Beyond Meanderings on March 30, 2010
Just a quick FYI, for all you new visitors to my site: I will be deleting much of the poetry here soon and beginning to post regularly again. Basically, I took a chunk of time to get all my other little ducks in a row, and the last round of posts were a part of […]
Tell us where to go.
Posted by Leslie in Beyond Meanderings on January 12, 2010
Our family is planning to embark on a monumental road trip over the summer of 2010, a kind of “Job Hunt U.S.A.,” and we need your help. We are not looking for tourist traps. We are looking for real information about your area of the country. We want to know what the job climate is […]
Sharing our abundance
Posted by Leslie in Beyond Meanderings on November 23, 2009
Thanksgiving has always been, for me and for most people, I think, about family gatherings. The thing I realized this year that I hadn’t considered before is that they were also exclusively family gatherings. Those of us fortunate enough to get together don’t usually consider those outside of our family when making invitations. Of course […]
Reacting like an alcoholic
Posted by Leslie in Beyond Meanderings on November 16, 2009
In addressing the whole idea of people who think like criminals, however minor the infractions may be, and the ghetto mindset in which people won’t talk to the police because they are afraid of the repercussions, there is another issue that goes hand in hand: substance abuse and the patterns that develop because of it. […]
It’s not even about the acts themselves.
Posted by Leslie in Beyond Meanderings on November 1, 2009
It brought to mind a man from a neighboring county that introduced himself while I was eating lunch during the summer when I was doing adwork for the newspaper. He found out I was a reporter and promptly said, “I have a story for you. It’s a discrimination case.” I said, “Oh yeah?” and he […]
From Farmers’ Markets to Preventive Medicine
Posted by Leslie in Beyond Meanderings on October 21, 2009
I have several friends who are very into homeopathic medicine, natural cleaners, home remedies, organic foods, and all kinds of bio-ethical decisionmaking. I totally support that, see the wisdom in it, and, frankly, would love to adopt it all myself. I believe that theory that claims “when sin, and with it disease, entered the now-tainted […]
Job changes
Posted by Leslie in Beyond Meanderings, Poetry on October 18, 2009
This poem is, to me, what snugly fits with this column because my faith often fuels my writing, and God gave me my techie husband, so it is fitting on several levels that I give God the glory for where I am now. Written at a very different time in my life, this poem reflects what […]
Bohemian: the ironic twist to my comfort food column
Posted by Leslie in Beyond Meanderings, Poetry on October 17, 2009
While I was blessed that things stopped where they began, there is a deeper irony in the comfort derived from Czech food than my column could allow. My hope is that in sharing this poem, originally posted at Poetic Asides as a prompt for “a personal interaction,” my readers will connect with something concrete in […]
Direct Questions
Posted by Leslie in Beyond Meanderings on October 15, 2009
While I teasingly compared Obama’s redirection of questions during his campaign to redirecting toddlers in order to avoid a tantrum, I think the bigger topic behind this is how people respond to direct questions. When someone asks a direct question, it requires a direct answer, yet we tend to try and get out of it […]
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A burgeoning writer and journalist, I am currently reporting for the Ozarks Sentinel newspaper. I wanted to create a place to talk about the pink elephants trumpeting in rooms across the globe.
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