Tuesday Trickles – My thinking corner.

September 7, 2016 jacquelineobyikocha6 Comments

Every Tuesday, I share snippets of thoughts that I call ‘My Thinking Corner.’

I would like to invite you to participate. The challenge is quite simple. You can check this link for more details.

Think of those things that are currently troubling you and write them down.

Don’t try to focus on immediate solutions; just focus on getting those thoughts out of your mind and onto a paper.

Close your writing, go and do something rejuvenating, like taking a walk, calling a friend and having a bit of laughter, whatever works for you.

Give it a day or two, then pick up what you wrote and read it.

You will observe that writing it down helped to declutter your mind.

Secondly, putting it in writing brings clarity and possibly simplifies the matter and finally reading it gives your mind an opportunity to look at possible solutions from a more mind-liberated position.

Some short words of wisdom are sent in by Deb. Do take a peek. You learn something new every day.

Be happy.

My Strategic Partners…

September 4, 2016 jacquelineobyikocha5 Comments

My girlfriend, Tasha, the author of the blog Hit Below The Belt Hard, a beautiful soul, and an admirable lady who runs a self-defense business. She serves great family oriented tips as well and her Friday funnies are not to be missed – I haven’t missed one yet 😉

Hit Below The Belt

Kaylaa Blackwell, the lady behind Inspired Beacon is a woman that I admire. Her tech savvy, business sense and resourcefulness are quite enviable. Let me share a link to one of her uplifting posts and her
e-commerce site.

Beautiful Brenda Baker of Caffeinated Ramblings has been a wonderful support in this space. Her delightful visuals and writing will set your thoughts free.

Michelle Malone, a sister and a friend. The wise woman (I call her that in my mind), runs the blog “Two are better than one.” I always come away from Michelle’s blog enriched from reading posts that have wisdom infused in them.

Lifting Up Taboos blogs shares raw insiders stories of adoption from the angle of an adoptee as well as engaging fiction. I find some of the articles gut wrenching and educative.

P.S. Would you like to partner with me? You can send me an email to Jacquelineobyikocha@gmail.com or send me a note through my getting in touch page on my blog.

Regards,

Jacqueline

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Dark nights – Friday Fiction in Five Sentences.

September 2, 2016September 2, 2016 jacquelineobyikocha13 Comments

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Mark sat in the dark smoke-filled room, the only light came from the red glow of his cigarettes.

Silent nights were his worst companions but he couldn’t stand the meaningless drone of the TV, where everyone looked cheerful and conversed with the ease of those who led normal lives. He hated the silent nights.

PTSD. That was what the doc said. PTSD. An easy blanket name used to describe his postwar struggles, and a handful of prescription that didn’t take away the recurring booms of explosives, the pungent stench of charred human bodies, the severed limbs, and the blood; so much blood.

The heroes welcome had been short-lived, for in the land fit for heroes there’s hardly any jobs for those like him and he wished he was back in Afghanistan, where he knew his place.

Now, he just didn’t know himself anymore.

Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha

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Let’s Get This Party Hopping – You Are Welcome 🎶👡💃🍖🍔🍿🍕🍦🍡🍰🍻

August 28, 2016August 28, 2016 jacquelineobyikocha

Hello, we are waiting for you. Welcome to my party. It’s bubbling this way.

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Yeah! It’s fun time this time 🙂

We cycle out of another month in a couple of days and the way time zooms by sometimes make me feel like a hamster running around in circles in pursuit of time 🙂

Anywhoo, I hope your weekend is going great. You are most welcome to my monthly meet & mingle, shake a leg & jingle, connect & interact with other awesome folks in here.

If this is your first-time visit, the rules of play are outlined below, if you are an old-timer, you know the drill.

Grab some refreshments and favours which nicely arranged down the page. Feel free to indulge, these are zero calories😉

Just some little party rules:

You must mix and mingle with others. Don’t be a wallflower. Go say hello to someone and you can participate in the Tag a poem, a thought or quote below.
Let us know…

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Something for Nothing!!!!

August 28, 2016 jacquelineobyikocha3 Comments

Great READ! FREE Too! All you have to do is download. If you’ve read Nutstroks/Linda’s humour laden posts then you know this is a gem.

Get clicking. Offer till the end of today.

Nutsrok

Click on this image on the right for a link to get this ebook free from Kindle Saturday or Sunday only. Please share! Book for order I grew up in a family of competitive storytellers. A little thing like a stubbed toe gets us started. “Do you remember the time Grandpa cut his ingrown toenails out then fooled around and set his toe on fire?” That is not a hypothetical example. It’s beloved and oft-repeated tale.

At family dinners, wild tales start as soon as we’ve said Grace and the food is being passed around. “Remember that fifty-two pound turkey Daddy brought home to fatten for Thanksgiving on year!”

Someone else breaks in, “That old turkey was the meanest thing that ever walked! We couldn’t even walk out in the yard without him flying over the fence and flogging us. Mother was looking forward to him teaching those terrible Downs kids a lesson…

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Share Your Posts!

August 22, 2016August 22, 2016 jacquelineobyikocha

If you’ve got a post for our eyes, do send in your links through this portal and get it featured. I share other people’s posts from Mondays to Fridays. Take advantage of the opportunity and share y…

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Featured Posts 107 – Share Your Posts.

August 2, 2016August 4, 2016 jacquelineobyikocha1 Comment

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‘PLEASE KEEP SENDING IN THE LINKS.’

Today’s featured blogs posts are:

Dream: Our dreams belong to us and no one can take them away.

She’s always there: Our loved one’s never really goes away. Beautiful poem and imagery.

Roos Ruse: Have you been to Roo’s corner? Delightful, poignant, intriguing, inspiring and so much more 🙂

Choice of Poison: an ode that depicts our times. Short and deep thoughts. Take a read.

Do step in and show some love.

‘Do you want more eyes on your words?’

Well then, add your LINK INTO THIS LOOP.

Comments are disabled here to keep the loop tidy. Any comments or link you want to send can be added through the link in the post.

Thank you for your understanding and regards.

‘We create a cohesive community when we come together.

Below is my first just published Poetry Book “Out of the silent breath” which is available on Amazon and Smashwords.

When you buy my book, you support me in an invaluable manner.

Jacqueline writes from her heart on passion, pain, suffering, loss and LIFE. I have been incredibly moved by her poetry and I know I will return to “Out of the Silent Breath” again and again.

If you enjoy my works and would like to do so, you can fuel my creativity with a slice of cake or coffee

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The Imp – Mundane Monday

August 1, 2016August 5, 2016 jacquelineobyikocha8 Comments

Mundane Monday Challenge is created to find beauty in almost everything.

The challenge is simple : find beauty in everyday mundane things, capture the beauty and upload the photographs.

Walking to my car in the garage, I noticed a curious black smear of paint or coal tar, not sure which one it is, however, the interesting shape seemed like a head of a cheeky imp and I couldn’t resist taking a photo of it. My camera has become a daily companion.

Below is my first just published Poetry Book “Out of the silent breath” which is available on Amazon and Smashwords.

When you buy my book, you support me in an invaluable manner.

“Beautiful Poetry of Life and Love.” Amanda

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Where Are You? It’s happening this way… Party Time.

July 31, 2016July 31, 2016 jacquelineobyikocha

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Welcome to the party. Just click on the REESE chocolate and the door opens.

Do come on in 🙂

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It’s Party Time. Come Right In 💃💕🎶🌭🍹🍻🍝🍰🍦🍿📻

July 31, 2016July 31, 2016 jacquelineobyikocha

You are welcome to the party. Still popping, please step in 🙂

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It’s almost unbelievable how fast time seems to fly by these days. Is it just me? Another month end blog party already.

I would like to thank my new blog friends and welcome them to our warm gathering.

You are most welcome do make yourself comfortable and other up something tall and cool to drink 🙂

Refreshments and favours are nicely arranged down the page. Feel free to indulge, these are zero calories 😉

Just some little party rules:

You must mix and mingle with others. Don’t be a wallflower. Go say hello to someone and you can participate in the Tag a poem, a thought or quote below.
Let us know where you are blogging from.
Please leave your blog link or post link in the comment box below along with introductions.
It’s one link per comment, but come back as often as you’d like, that way it’s easier to…

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