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&lt;i&gt;"But let all who take refuge in You be glad. Let them ever sing for joy. Spread Your protection over them, that those who love Your Name may rejoice in You." (Psalm 51:11)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;</description><link>http://nickersandinkblog.blogspot.com/</link><managingEditor>noreply@blogger.com (Linda - Nickers and Ink)</managingEditor><generator>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>282</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/NickersAndInk" /><media:copyright>All content copyrighted by author, unless marked otherwise.</media:copyright><media:category scheme="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd">Arts/Literature</media:category><media:category scheme="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd">Religion &amp; Spirituality/Christianity</media:category><media:category scheme="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd">Comedy</media:category><media:category scheme="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd">Kids &amp; Family</media:category><media:category scheme="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd">Business</media:category><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com" /><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5868682166696623114.post-5232982426516422035</guid><pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:05:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-12-16T11:22:01.038-06:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">haiku</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">holidays</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Christmas</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">writing</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Poetry</category><title>Holiday Haiku Trio</title><atom:summary>Holiday Haiku TrioDo you like haiku poetry?  Do you write haikus?A haiku contains 17 syllables in three lines (5-7-5). Technically, a lighthearted haiku is usually more correctly called a senryu. Of course, that may be mincing words or splitting hairs.Here are links to a few holiday haiku poems. Why not write your own today? Please leave a comment, so we can all enjoy your holiday haiku!Carol on </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NickersAndInk/~3/BR7qtggGVes/holiday-haiku-trio.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Linda Ann Nickerson)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">3</thr:total><description>
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Today is December 7th, Pearl Harbor Day. May we never forget those who lost their lives in the Pacific on this date in 1941.

Here's my own tribute to those brave souls:

Pearl of Great Price - a Rhymed Encore on the Start of a War
By  Linda Ann Nickerson

 				
A world at war,
From shore to shore,
Its fury to unfurl.
No turning back,
The first attack,
The Harbor </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NickersAndInk/~3/I488RiPsM34/honoring-pearl-harbor-day.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Linda Ann Nickerson)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">1</thr:total><description>
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&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/sVWIc2AEbxykSw-Wr9aoXOF8410/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/sVWIc2AEbxykSw-Wr9aoXOF8410/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://nickersandinkblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/why-am-i-thankful.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5868682166696623114.post-2729173120414318197</guid><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:01:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-11-20T10:05:31.387-06:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">thinking</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">wordplay</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">publishing</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">writing</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Poetry</category><title>Spinning and Grinning</title><atom:summary>&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;     Normal   0               false   false   false      EN-US   X-NONE   X-NONE                                                     MicrosoftInternetExplorer4                                                   &lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NickersAndInk/~3/TE6Ti9TdrrU/spinning-and-grinning.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Linda Ann Nickerson)</author><media:thumbnail url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tLPpH-a_EEE/Swa93EaH6fI/AAAAAAAAF9g/m9Xjwt0tahI/s72-c/Irish+Spinner+c1920+-+wiki+public.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">6</thr:total><description>
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&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/iALVNmv7jyGAAV_jtUAMicBiQLI/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/iALVNmv7jyGAAV_jtUAMicBiQLI/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://nickersandinkblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/black-friday-sales-and-wails.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5868682166696623114.post-3663806821011344724</guid><pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:01:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-11-13T15:41:06.997-06:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">simply snickers</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">driving</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">limericks</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">shopping</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">pride</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Satire</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Poetry</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Humor</category><title>Raise the Roof</title><atom:summary>&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;     Normal   0               false   false   false      EN-US   X-NONE   X-NONE                                                     MicrosoftInternetExplorer4                                                   &lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NickersAndInk/~3/7S5SPcPNxPE/raise-roof.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Linda Ann Nickerson)</author><media:thumbnail url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tLPpH-a_EEE/Sv2Rcz6X4vI/AAAAAAAAF44/cSpX_FvngtA/s72-c/low+clearance.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">8</thr:total><description>
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&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/LldrJTtNK2Ko1Js3pGEFf72FFIk/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/LldrJTtNK2Ko1Js3pGEFf72FFIk/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://nickersandinkblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/pogo-gogo.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5868682166696623114.post-648459012533673832</guid><pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:22:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-11-02T17:33:24.359-06:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">editors</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">limericks</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">deadlines</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">contests</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">editing</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">publishing</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">writing</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Poetry</category><title>My NaNoWriMo Nightmare</title><atom:summary>&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;     Normal   0               false   false   false      EN-US   X-NONE   X-NONE                                                     MicrosoftInternetExplorer4                                                   &lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NickersAndInk/~3/M3HkBPKUe5U/my-nanowrimo-nightmare.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Linda Ann Nickerson)</author><media:thumbnail url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tLPpH-a_EEE/Su9sFw79GOI/AAAAAAAAFxo/WgXEf6PHcAY/s72-c/nano_09_blk_participant_120x240.png.png" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">9</thr:total><description>
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&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/JBVgEmnLmOZJrBib43up7RZfDa0/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/JBVgEmnLmOZJrBib43up7RZfDa0/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://nickersandinkblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/my-nanowrimo-nightmare.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5868682166696623114.post-2508079874082409888</guid><pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:35:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-10-30T13:53:17.851-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">entertainment</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">fear</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">family</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">memory</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">holidays</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">grandparenting</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Poetry</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">acrostic</category><title>What a Witch</title><atom:summary>What a Witch
(on a skeleton from our own family closet)

The Wicked Witch of the West  (played by Margaret Hamilton)  in The Wizard of Oz
&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;     Normal   0               false   false   false      EN-US   X-NONE   X-NONE                                                     MicrosoftInternetExplorer4                                                   &lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NickersAndInk/~3/ju_G8l6xH2s/what-witch.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Linda Ann Nickerson)</author><media:thumbnail url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_tLPpH-a_EEE/Suszs2DSFTI/AAAAAAAAFtw/DbGr1bKj3uE/s72-c/witches_big.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">8</thr:total><description>
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&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/nHvtJVeOXszbtib2ZulDWwPoX9o/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/nHvtJVeOXszbtib2ZulDWwPoX9o/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://nickersandinkblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/what-witch.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5868682166696623114.post-7217815080722236635</guid><pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:55:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-10-29T19:59:57.403-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">romance</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">travel</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">secrets</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">wordplay</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Poetry</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">acrostic</category><title>Un Reve Peut-Etre (A Dream, Perhaps?)</title><atom:summary>&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;     Normal   0               false   false   false      EN-US   X-NONE   X-NONE                                                     MicrosoftInternetExplorer4                                                   &lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NickersAndInk/~3/qyz0RdjLNuM/un-reve-peut-etre-dream-perhaps.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Linda Ann Nickerson)</author><media:thumbnail url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_tLPpH-a_EEE/Suo6YldAbpI/AAAAAAAAFtA/is8PtZp9isQ/s72-c/Eiffel_tower_from_the_neighborhood.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">3</thr:total><description>
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