Category: A to Z Challenge – April 2019
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Truth – T – A to Z Challenge 2019
Earlier this year I mentioned on my blog that I want to change professionally. From time to time I have had posts in a self-analysis style. In a way sharing these thoughts, makes me feel less lost. So the truth is that there are quite a few truths. I wrote…
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Ship – S – A to Z Challenge
The continuous humming that had accompanied us for the past weeks, suddenly stopped. It was eeryliy The continuous humming that had accompanied us for the past weeks suddenly stopped. It was eerily quiet when we woke up. Out at sea, it was always quiet, but now, we realized that the…
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Remember – R – A to Z Challenge 2019
Recalling your green eyes on that beautiful day. Every delicate food that my mouth tasted. Many minutes uselessly wasted. Every kiss he blew from far away. Moaning about the lack of money. Befriending a stranger. Enjoying the absence of danger. Realising that the cake contained honey.
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Queue – A to Z Challenge 2019
“Sorry” the woman behind the counter apologised, not sounding apologetic at all. I looked at her with a quizzical look. What was she pretending to be sorry for? It wasn’t the queue I had waited in for the past two hours. “Miss, I must tell you that you have waited…
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Period – P- A to Z Challenge 2019
The number of times I had my period in the last 6 years can be counted on my fingers. And no, I am not past menopause or taking hormones. My period stayed away due to 2 pregnancies and a lot of breastfeeding. After almost 3 years of no period, I…
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Omnipresent – O – A to Z Challenge 2019
The images couldn’t leave her mind. They would not leave her alone. However hard she tried to forget the atrocities she had seen during her childhood. During the warfare in her country of birth. The streaming blood, the grey and cold limbs covered in dust. Where always there. Haunting her.…
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Notre-Dame – N – A to Z Challenge 2019
In August 2003, my family returned to Europe after having lived for 3 years in the US. We didn’t return to Germany but continued our expat adventure in France. Never before had I been in Paris or in France. We were living in the suburbs and Paris quickly became our…
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Michelle Obama – M – A to Z Challenge
When Barack Obama was President of the USA, I didn’t pay much attention to American politics. Okay, I was studying politics, but I danced around US politics and electoral matters in general. I thrived on topics such as political thought, international relations, the EU, but I wasn’t interested in how…
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Love – L – A to Z Challenge
You are loved! Someone or something within this universe loves you. There is someone looking up to you. There is someone willing to help you. Just ask. You are loved! If you don’t show up for work, without a warning, your colleagues might wonder or even worry, where you are.…
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King – K – A to Z Challenge
“We want to see the new king!” “We want to see our new king!” “We want to see the new king of our country!” The crowds outside were deafening. The new king didn’t want to show his face, he wanted to sleep. To sleep of the grief, the shock, the…
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Journal – J – A to Z Challenge 2019
Journal Jessica opened her journal. Without reading the writing on the pages she flicked through to the first blank page. Today, she didn’t want to write about what had happened in recent weeks. She wanted her creativity to kiss the page. She wanted the darkness of the past few weeks…
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Impatient – I – A to Z Challenge
He drums his fingers on the kitchen counter, impatiently waiting for the water to boil. Impatient you moan about your car stuck in traffic. With impatience, I check my post box in the morning. Where is that parcel? As the time to midnight creeps closer, the more impatient we grow.…
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HPV – H – A to Z Challenge
I have wanted to write this post for a long time. I, always find something else that I can write about. But today, I will write about HPV. HPV is short for Human Papilloma Virus, there are many different types of HPV, and some of them are cancerous. My mother…
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Galaxy – G – A to Z Challenge
It was a quiet night. The absence of noise was what made me get out of bed. Being a city-girl the quietness of the countryside can be eeriy at times. Not to wake anyone I tiptoed around the room and quietly opened the window. Cold autumn air rushed around my…
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Flowers – F – A to Z Challenge 2019
Every day he gave me a flower. Sometimes it was a bought arrangement.Sometimes it was a wild flower.Sometimes it was a picked flower.Sometimes he gave me a dried poppy .Neatly tukked into the pages of his favourite book.Sometimes it was free.Sometimes it was store-bought.At times it was cheekishly taken from…
Solveig Werner 