Page 1 of Dianne Lehmann's writing

1. It's not Goodbye, It's just So Long for Now I have a very hard time giving things up. Especially when they mean a lot to me. If it's something that I've had in my life for a long time, then it is very hard to let go of it as well. I've made a lot of great friends here on Wryte Stuff, but... (posted by Dianne 16 days 19 hours ago.)

2. How I feel about God I wrote what follows quite some time ago. I never submitted it to the then SearchWarp that is now Wryte Stuff. Now that this assignment has come up, I've had another look at it. It's been a few years since I wrote this and I find I still feel... (posted by Dianne 25 days 19 hours ago.)

3. Life always finds a Way As long as there is breath in us, there is a way. Until we are on the other side of the dirt, there are always options. The end is not the end until we give up, and even then it may not be the end. It might just be the beginning. After her... (posted by Dianne 30 days 20 hours ago.)

4. Racism Works both Ways Because I am basically Caucasian and was raised by fairly bigoted parents, I have always been very aware of how I respond to people who are not Caucasian. And the fact is that a very good case could be made for there being some Native American... (posted by Dianne 32 days 13 hours ago.)

5. The Real This is what's real. It is all real. We might think that only those things we can see and smell and touch are real, but that is only the smallest part of the Real. Our thoughts are real. Our feelings are real. The things that we imagine are... (posted by Dianne 35 days 20 hours ago.)

6. Nothin' but Time If I had nothing but spare time, what would I do with it? Wow. This is so in the realm of the unimaginable that I'm not sure I can answer that question. Okay. Exaggeration aside, I'll give it a shot. I have actually spent a lot of not very spare... (posted by Dianne 39 days 21 hours ago.)

7. Finding the Fork in the Road "No. I'm not alright. I don't think I've been alright for a very long time. I may never have been alright. I don't even think I know what alright is." What Daria had felt a moment earlier was profound embarrassment. She felt as if this stranger... (posted by Dianne 41 days 19 hours ago.)

8. Into the Wilderness There is a little bit of the Wild in each of us. We like to think we are urbane and civilized, and to a large extent we are, but the Wild is there regardless of what we might think. It is essential to our survival. Not just in reflexes that... (posted by Dianne 45 days 18 hours ago.)

9. You Know what You have to Do Deep inside each and every one of us is Knowing. We ignore it because it seems so unreal. It is not something we can touch. We cannot hold it in our hands, turning it this way and that. We cannot see it in all its colors and textures. But it is... (posted by Dianne 46 days 21 hours ago.)

10. Finding What You are Looking For "Hello. This is …" That was all Daria heard before she hung up the phone. She let go of the handset as if it were a hot potato. It had taken her days just to work up the courage to place the call. Now she would just have to work up the... (posted by Dianne 50 days 13 hours ago.)

11. A Reason to Be "A penny for your thoughts." Daria looked, with startlement, at the tall, young man standing next to her. He was wearing a grey hoodie, dark green T-shirt and blue jeans and she wondered how he had come to be standing next to her without her... (posted by Dianne 51 days 21 hours ago.)

12. Dealing with the Vicissitudes of Life In reality, I'd have to say that even on a good day I don't deal all that well with the vicissitudes of life. I can handle adversity, though, with a modicum of grace by telling myself that I had no control over that to begin with. I can deal with... (posted by Dianne 55 days 19 hours ago.)

13. What to Write About Make no mistake, I know for a fact that coming up with weekly writing assignments for us isn't easy. There have been weeks where I could not come up with my own idea to save my life. Not only does the Wryte Stuff staff have to come up with ideas... (posted by Dianne 60 days 18 hours ago.)

14. The Five Things I Look for in a Good Read It doesn't really matter where I'm reading what. It can be on my desktop PC from the Internet, in a magazine or a paper book (I still don't own a tablet, iPad, Nook or Kindle). To get my interest and keep my interest the article, poem, story, or... (posted by Dianne 67 days 18 hours ago.)

15. Dreaming of the Deep Dark Woods I've been looking for myself for a very long time. I've found bits and pieces here and there, but the whole escapes me. Sometimes I think that it doesn't exist at all … but then I get a glimmer … a brief flash of what it might be.... (posted by Dianne 72 days 20 hours ago.)

16. The Ten Traits I Value most in the People around Me The Wryte Stuff assignment for this week was to write about the ten qualities I most appreciate in my friends and what qualities I look for in new friends. I am also supposed to explain each one. The truth is that I don't make friends easily.... (posted by Dianne 73 days 18 hours ago.)

17. Do Not Try to Sit on Your Coke Bottle Have you ever wondered what engendered some of the seemingly ridiculous warnings and precautions in instruction manuals? Mostly I imagine they are occasioned by the American tendency to sue anyone and everyone for their own stupidity. I once wrote... (posted by Dianne 80 days 17 hours ago.)

18. Fifteen Things I Like There was a time when banana flavored popsicles were my absolute favorite treat to buy from the ice cream man. He had the worst hands, chapped and cracked and callused from putting them into a cold ice cream truck every day, but he handed out the... (posted by Dianne 80 days 20 hours ago.)

19. Office Intrigue "Seriously?! You did not just say that." Gloria was red-faced and working up a good head of steam. Embarrassingly enough, a bit of spittle had flown out of her mouth with her last remark. Timothy, Timmy to his friends, just sat there with a silly... (posted by Dianne 87 days 21 hours ago.)

20. Granite Dells, Prescott Arizona I love rocks … just about any kind of rocks. And the bigger the better. When we first moved to the Tri-City area (now the Quad-City area of Prescott, Chino Valley, Prescott Valley and Dewey-Humboldt), people would tell me about the Granite... (posted by Dianne 93 days 19 hours ago.)

21. Maui's Diablo: My Miracle Horse Article NL Maui's Diablo: My Miracle Horse When I first met him, he was already old but he didn't show it. Well, maybe a bit in his topline. A little sag to the back. A little muscle missing from the croup. Withers poking out a bit more than... (posted by Dianne 94 days 14 hours ago.)

22. Inspire, Promote, Encourage, Sing There is no doubt that songs can be inspirational. Songs are written about all manner of things and because words put to music are often easier to remember than otherwise, songs have been used through the ages to teach and inform as well as sell... (posted by Dianne 94 days 16 hours ago.)

23. Practical Jokes Both my parents loved practical jokes. My mother told me that once she sewed shut the flies in all my dad's underwear. Apparently, he was not very amused, but she laughed and laughed. My parents played practical jokes on me and my sister when we... (posted by Dianne 97 days 20 hours ago.)

24. Innies and Outies My husband, Bernd, and I are both innies in the physical and emotional sense of the word. I think the fact that we are both introverted is why we were so strongly attracted to each other when we first met. That, and the fact that he is just so... (posted by Dianne 100 days 15 hours ago.)

25. Darwin and Airbags My 1992 Jeep Cherokee is very old. It will probably hit the 200,000 mile mark sometime this year. I've started to wonder just how much longer it will last and so I have been looking around online to see what is available. I'm pretty sure that I... (posted by Dianne 101 days 20 hours ago.)