About The “Found” Poem

I learned first hand about found poetry back in the 80s when I’d taken a poetry class at Chicago’s Harold Washington College. It felt bizarre to me and a bit like stealing when the instructor told us it was perfectly alright to visit another’s work and take snippits, phrases and sometimes whole sentence fragments from [...]

Thanks For The Memories-Clara54!

Spending time with family was glorious! The spacious Lake Hamilton site offered many ammenities as well. I loved the calm water, the sunset evenings & the time spent in lively conversation around the gazebo! There were a few things I wasn’t so pleased about,but that’s in an upcoming post in clara54’s resort review

Call For The Short Story…

Do you write short stories? I do. I’ve always loved the short story, as well as flash fiction. It’s because brevity works for me and the short story doesn’t require the loads of research that other forms of writing call for. I’m not a fan of doing a lot of research, unless it’s a [...]

Promising You Exciting Trailers Of Film!

Clara54 welcomes up & comers in the field of music & film, as well as authors who’d like to showcase their works here. These are just 2 of the folks who have requested to have their works viewed by my readers: Liscious with his 1st big starring role in [...]

Woman Writing Again!

Hi All! The last week has consisted of packing,moving, movers, family reunions,and getting frustrated after my return home with At&t Internet Services! Anyho, today after being on the phone with Mack, a very considerate & astute techie over there  for what seemed like hours, I’m finally reconnected! Now I’m in “writers paradise”  again… The workers here are also winding down on last minute stuff they needed to finish in my new [...]

Writing intrusion…

As in the day I’m to move into my new place. Folks I like to refer to as ”Godsend helpers”!will be stopping in to assist me in finishing the packing & moving the big pieces that requires a shot of testosterone & for which I could never compensate (thank God!) just love being a woman, especially [...]

A Writer On Her Stats!

Since I penned the review of Wendy “how yer doing” Williams Show here, I’m happy to report that Clara54’s stats have increased tremendously! I’m not saying that this sort of stuff gets folks inquiring minds to wanna know, I am saying that variety makes for more traffic . Although many bloggers/writers would advise to “brand” your blogs, I’m not totally convinced that this is [...]

Illinois Healthy Workplace Mission Statement…

Recently, the Independent Chicago Bulletin newspaper featured an article about workplace bullying from Mr. Jonathan Lackland, the executive Director of Illinois Association for Minorities in Government. Mr. Lackland’s piece had many folks in Illinois writing to the newspaper, in their quest for answers to the phenomena of “workplace bullying”. I, at one time was uninformed as well that such a thing existed [...]

Clara54’s “Scary Movies” Pick …

Ok, with down time between those frigging’ dang blasted bouts of beating up on the clunker of a PC that left me alone …..Alright,  alright…I’m done. Here are some  snazzy quips about the movies clara54 watched while biting her friggin’ nails and eating like tomorrow never comes:
Drag Me To Hell…I know seems fitting but I’m not about to claim this ONE ! This was an absurdly, obtuse look at ”claw [...]

The Last Eight Days…

Were spent reading, writing , working at my ‘day’ job, packing for my move into my new place at the end of the month and literally cursing out my trusted computer which let me down by completely clunking out on me & at the most inopportune time for a writer! It’s been a bit nerve wrecking as [...]