New Purchase

Last Wednesday I came back from a trip to Target with this handy dandy little white board. I'm not a big fan of white boards in general, other than on dorm room doors for message taking purchases, but I am super excited about this white board. It is magnetic. And cute. And I have a new way to display my magnetic poetry that until recently has been banished to several (OK five) cookie sheets underneath my bed. I took one cookie sheet out and filled the board with little itty bitty words, and while my children are slurping their breakfast, I compose magnetic poetry in the kitchen. I haven't come up with any truly magnificent poems to publish this week, but perhaps more fun than coming up with an entire poem is to pick out word combinations and join them together. They churn in my brain and my imagination takes off. While the little creatures in my house crunch their cereal and squish bananas all over the table, I have visions of amazing stories, splendid plots, and tantalizing characters that have important things to say and do. It's really too bad that instead of actually writing a sketch of the stories down, I have to clean up breakfast, a task that actually takes longer than breakfast itself.

Word Combination of the Day: Repulsive Moment