Category: The Specials

Here you will find a series of posts written while observing a holiday, taking part in a challenge, covering a special event in life or attempting various works of fiction/poetry.

December 17th – Performance No. 17

~ Lenore Diane ~ 14 Comments

In case you are new here, I am on day seventeen of 25 days and 25 different performances of the Christmas song, “O Holy Night”. For those of you who are not new, please pardon my repetitive opening throughout the course of these 25 days.

Two of my sisters and I love the song “O Holy Night”. After a series of emails with one of my sisters, I came up with the idea of sharing different versions/performances of the song “O Holy Night”.

We are down to the final ten, folks. Welcome to version number seventeen. Continue reading “December 17th – Performance No. 17” →

Dabbling in a Drabble

~ Lenore Diane ~ 20 Comments

A blogger I follow (in the blogosphere sense, not the literal – waiting on his doorstep – sense), writes a drabble on Fridays. What is a Drabble? Well, quoting Stevil, “a drabble is a very short story of exactly 100 words.” And, with every drabble Steve posts, he invites others to join in and write his/her own. He also suggests to tag the post with ‘Friday Drabble” and use the hashtag #fridaydrabble on Twitter.

I’ve always been impressed with Steve’s drabbles. First, the guy is a great writer. Second, I am amazed how someone can tell a full story with only 100 words. Because I am talkative, the ability to drabble (yes, I just made it a verb) seems inconceivable to me.

Then I took part in BlogDramadey’s BlogFestvius, which limited the posts to 144 words. Lo and behold, I was able to keep each post at 144 words. Since I was able to meet that challenge, I decided to give this drabble thing a try. Continue reading “Dabbling in a Drabble” →

December 16th – Performance No. 16

~ Lenore Diane ~ 14 Comments

In case you are new here, I am on day sixteen of 25 days and 25 different performances of the Christmas song, “O Holy Night”. For those of you who are not new, please pardon my repetitive opening throughout the course of these 25 days.

Two of my sisters and I love the song “O Holy Night”. After a series of emails with one of my sisters, I came up with the idea of sharing different versions/performances of the song “O Holy Night”.

We are down to the final ten, folks. Welcome to version number sixteen. Continue reading “December 16th – Performance No. 16” →