Author: CHINA ALEXANDRIA LIVING THE DREAM

AUTHOR OF ROMANCE, CRIME DRAMAS AND POETRY SET IN GLASGOW, ITALY AND BRAZIL ALSO AVAILABLE ON KINDLE china.alexandria33@gmail.com THE RICHEST MAN ON EARTH THE YOUNG SHEPHERD LOOKED UP TO THE HEAVENS AND SMILED HE THANKED THE JEWELLED SKY FOR HIS GOOD FORTUNE HIS WIFE, THEIR TWIN BOYS,FOUR SHEEP AND TWO GOATS. THE JEWELLED SKY LOOKED DOWN ON HIM AND SMILED KNOWING MANY HAD THANKED IT FOR THEIR GOOD FORTUNE THINKING THAT THEY OWNED THE RICHES OF THE WORLD BUT ONLY THE YOUNG SHEPHERD WITH HIS WIFE, TWIN BOYS ,FOUR SHEEP AND TWO GOATS WAS TRULY THE RICHEST MAN IN THE WORLD. BY CHINA ALEXANDRIA AUTHOR

2019: Q… A to Z Italian Famiglia Foods and Memories: Queen of the Fudge

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2019: Q… A to Z Italian Famiglia Foods and Memories: Queen of the Fudge

I’m back for “Year 4” of the A to Z… April Challenge!

My first year of this challenge had me racking my brain for a writing topic… especially as I didn’t quite understand the process. But finally I came up with 2016:Southern Foods and Memories. They said write what you know… and being a girl born in the South… well this was what I knew.  2017: Conversations with Mama was a somewhat easy one for me as I’d journaled our conversations for years so I researched some of my favorite topics to write on.  2018: All About Nancy Drew has been my favorite topic so far, and I don’t know if I’ll ever come up with another to equal it. It literally had me researching every day for over six months… researching, reading and…

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Magic Biscuits

Sarah W's avatarBy Sarah

Across the ground you fly.
Bounding through life,
Comes so easily to you.
Daring to rely on wishes and
Everything falls into place.
Free from responsibility andtreatedlike
Gods. It must be
Heaven to be you.
I would like to trade even
Just for a day. Your
Kind must make some
Lovely little
Magic biscuits to
Nestle so deeply into
Our lives.
Playing for keeps you
Quietly establish your
Reign of our houses and
Sleeping quarters.
Taking time to
Undo the chains we
Valiantlyhave placed around our hearts.
We stand no chance against your
Xenophile ways.
You are dog. You are family. Youare
Zeitgeist. Larger than life.

By Sarah ©2019

#NaPoWriMo – Day 19, 2019

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Adventures in Edmonton

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These are a few photos I took with my cell phone while hubby was hospitalized at the University of Alberta Hospital. It is a huge hospital covering about three city blocks. There was a lot of walking involved to get from my room to his! Here is a short photographic essay of his stay there.

I will always be grateful for the kindness and compassion displayed by EMTs as my husband was flown from our community aboard STARS, the Alberta air ambulance service.

We arrived in Edmonton shortly before midnight and spent the night in the emergency department waiting for a hospital bed. In the early morning hours he was finally taken to his first room – this is a view from his window.

I couldn’t resist taking a few shots of the architecture inside the five-story building that houses the University of Alberta Hospital

U of A Hospital

Looking…

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2019: V… A to Z Italian Famiglia Foods and Memories: Vongoles with pasta

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2019: V… A to Z  Italian Famiglia Foods and Memories: Vongoles sauce over pasta

 I’m back for “Year 4” of the A to Z… April Challenge!

My first year of this challenge had me racking my brain for a writing topic… especially as I didn’t quite understand the process. But finally I came up with 2016:Southern Foods and Memories. They said write what you know… and being a girl born in the South… well this was what I knew.  2017: Conversations with Mama was a somewhat easy one for me as I’d journaled our conversations for years so I researched some of my favorite topics to write on.  2018: All About Nancy Drew has been my favorite topic so far, and I don’t know if I’ll ever come up with another to equal it. It literally had me researching every day for over six months… researching, reading and…

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The Great Race

Sarah W's avatarBy Sarah

This is a great race.

Though hidden by smog
the sun still radiates.
This summer heat is stifling.

The ground crunches beneath my feet.
Dry, rocky, barren.
The trees have long gone.

The wind tears its fingers through my hair.
It whips against my face as I look back
to where we have been.

I taste the bitterness of
being alone and smell
the fumes of a rotting world.

I strain to hear, signs of life.
I hear silence.
Nothing.

Oh yes, this is a great race.
A race against time.

How long before we ask ourselves,
“Where has our world gone?”

By Sarah ©2019

#NaPoWriMo 2019 – Day 25

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