Denise E Lindquist
Bio
I am married with 7 children, 28 grands, and 13 great-grandchildren. I am a culture consultant part-time. I write A Poem a Day in February for 8 years now. I wrote 4 - 50,000 word stories in NaNoWriMo. I write on Vocal/Medium daily.
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Lost and Found
One day I am all cuddled in bed with my favorite person and the next day I am flying across the road. The day was storming and the wind must have been blowing about 70 miles an hour. I know I was going fast an hour! All of a sudden I came to a standstill next to a large cement wall.
By Denise E Lindquist2 years ago in Fiction
Surprises for Me About my Husband
Now, what does that mean, “Women don’t think the same way men do!”? Hubby’s oldest daughter clued me in when we first started to date. She said, “The best way to get my dad’s attention is in the truck. You can talk to him, and he can’t escape!”
By Denise E Lindquist2 years ago in Confessions
My Writing in 2024
Challenge: Write about your aspirations, as a creator, on Vocal in 2024. The same New Years resolution board is up in my office from 2022. I just added 2023 to it and this year I was thinking of putting a piece of blue duck tape over those dates, writing 2024, and changing just a few things. I write for challenges never expecting to win or place.
By Denise E Lindquist2 years ago in Writers
A Lullaby
I have chosen this prompt from the following 2024 prompts by Judey Kalchik: Write a lullaby (it doesn’t have to rhyme, but it could) for one of these: a star, a rhino, a cup of coffee, a candle, your first car, a child, your parent, your job, an ear of corn, your phone, the sea.
By Denise E Lindquist2 years ago in Poets
The Genogram. Top Story - January 2024.
I started working with primarily Native American program participants in 1984, after completing my coursework in community counseling with a concentration in chemical dependency counseling. At first, I interned and then worked at detox.
By Denise E Lindquist2 years ago in Psyche
The Gift
The Magic 9 is a newer form and relatively unknown. The creator could not be found, though it appears to have been inspired by a poet misspelling the word "abracadabra." This 9-line poem doesn't have any rules as far as meter or subject matter--just a rhyme scheme: abacadaba. That's right! Just remove the r's from "abracadabra," and boom! A new poetic form; and after writing my first Magic 9, I can report that they're fun to write. Writer's Digest, Robert Lee Brewer
By Denise E Lindquist2 years ago in Poets
2024
No drinking for me and the hubby today or tonight. Before recovery and then since I have been in recovery, I have heard many people say, we are staying in tonight as it is amateur night. This means that people will be out who don’t know how to hold their drinks and there will be accidents and it will be drunk and ugly, a fright.
By Denise E Lindquist2 years ago in Poets
A Bear! Where?
The Prompt from Sahil Patel: “Think about a time when nature really moved you. Describe how being in a specific natural place made you want to write. Share how the beauty of nature inspired the words you put on paper and how it changed your feelings.” Sahil Patel has weekly prompts on medium.com. Many are nature prompts, at least those are the ones I have responded to.
By Denise E Lindquist2 years ago in Poets
