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Things I Have Learned

I learned to embroider. And it was fine. Herringbone stitch. Tah Dah Tah Dah! I learned to crochet Bah Bing. Bah Bing. Truly thought I had found my thing. I learned to dance. Hooray! All right! I stomped and whirled Into the night! I learned to paint. Oh, it was great! Reds, and oranges, Thrown on a plate! Poetry is new. Entertains me today. If it stops I will not stay….

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Rhona Mcferran

Date: 7/31/2019 8:50:00 PM

Poetry is definitely one of your (many) things! LOVE this!!! ;)

Caren Krutsinger
Date: 8/1/2019 10:02:00 AM

It is one of my things RIGHT NOW. When I get bored, I go off cold turkey. I threw writing out the window for about 38 years before. It can happen again. Not today, but maybe in a month or two.

Ilene Bauer

Date: 7/31/2019 3:21:00 PM

i don't see you stopping, caren. once it gets into your bloodstream, it's kind of hard to remove. write on! (fun poem, by the way)

Caren Krutsinger
Date: 8/1/2019 10:02:00 AM

It is Ilene, but I am pretty compulsive, and so obsessive!

Heidi Sands

Date: 7/31/2019 10:45:00 AM

Keep on writing. You have a gift :)

Caren Krutsinger
Date: 8/1/2019 10:03:00 AM

Thank you Heidi. This website alone has pretty much "fired me up" and kept me writing.

Jeanne Mcgee

Date: 7/31/2019 10:03:00 AM

Please don't stop! you have a talent with words for sure.

Caren Krutsinger
Date: 8/1/2019 10:03:00 AM

Jeanne, thank you. If you saw how quiet I am at work, you would laugh so hard. The words I use are mostly thrown onto a page. For some reason, I am in tune with written much more than spoken words.