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• Member since October 27, 2002.
• I'm a zen master poet for 16,403 comments.
• My mood is , and quote is "Air Supply Now and Forever".
• When I'm not writing, I'm a Writer.
• Visit my homepage at www.whiskeycreekpress.com/authors/Danna_Hobart.shtml
• I am a 35 year old girl (United States)
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• I have 16,403 comments, 198 contests, 4 addlines, 544 columns, 184 poems, 14 stories, 10 journals

Active Contests

• Skin

  Your prompt is skin. No pedestrian rhyme. No purple prose. Show- don't tell. No lyrics. Imagery and metaphor are what i look for. If you enter something without imagery or meta

  400 points, ends September 13, 12 entries In Contest

My Poetry

• Sweet Temptations

  Taste buds beg
  for salty treat.

  52 lines, 4 comments, August 28
• Deflated

  33 lines, 3 comments, August 27. In Adult, Contemporary, Humor
• Scrambled Eggs

  Lines in his forehead deepen
  with his daily brooding.

  28 lines, 13 comments, July 25
• Heat

  Summer heat presses in on me
  like a fat man on a bus.

  18 lines, 7 comments, July 21. In Contemporary

My Stories

• A War of Her Own - Prologue

  Okay, friends, this is the beginning of my grandmother's biography, which I have been working on forever.
  
  I could use help on this one.

  498 lines, 16 comments, September 7, 2009. In <600 words, Biography, Life
• Morning Star

  I started to tie a bib around Tucker’s neck but I had the strongest desire to strangle him with it. I could see it in my mind, his head growing larger, like a balloon as his neck was cinched off by the strings. His tongue bul

  365 lines, 5 comments, December 16, 2007. In <600 words, Autobiographic, Depression, First person, Humor, Instpiational, Romance
• Different Dimensions

  Rose is in a Henrik’s display window, having difficulty dressing a mannequin in an evening gown. She struggles to fit the pre-bent arm thro

  1396 lines, 6 comments, August 21, 2007. In 600-2000 words

My journal entries

• More than fireworks on July 4th.

  July 7, 900 words. All. 2 comments.

  I have a friend named Sandy. She was married to my husband's best friend, Mike. Mike committed suicide back in 2002. When Mike died, I was devastated, and on the day of his funeral I went and spent about 200 dollars on alcohol and took it over to her place. That night many of us sat around, got drunk, and recounted happy stories about Mike. When Todd and I went home, I left the remaining alcohol at Sandy's house. Before that, Sandy had only been a social drinker. After that, she became an alc...

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  I have a friend named Sandy. She was married to my husband's best friend, Mike. Mike committed suicide back in 2002. When Mike died, I was devastated, and on the day of his funeral I went and spent about 200 dollars on alcohol and took it over to her place. That night many of us sat around, got drunk, and recounted happy stories about Mike. When Todd and I went home, I left the remaining alcohol at Sandy's house. Before that, Sandy had only been a social drinker. After that, she became an alcoholic, and I can't help but feel responsible. Since then, her life has been one drama after another. She started seeing a man named Andy for about a year. He was an alcoholic too. Then she broke up with him and started seeing his best friend, Jim (another alcoholic). When that happened, Andy called her and told her he was going to go stand on the rail road tracks and kill himself. A few months later, he did just that. Jim turned out to be a leach, so after she got tired of supporting him, Sandy threw him out and started dating her daughter's ex-husband. This guy is the father of two of her grandchildren! But he was just using her too, and after he wiped out her bank account, he left her high and dry. So Sandy went out to a bar with the last ten bucks she had in her jeans, and while she was out she met this guy named Craig, and here is where the story really begins...
  
  The same day she met Craig, Sandy moved in with him. I know why she did it- she was desperate, she was facing eviction, she had no food in her house the three kids that were still living at home, she had no money to pay any of her utilities, she had gotten two DWI's and was losing her driver's license because of them, etc... But I don't think Sandy will admit that even to herself. She told me that she was "in love" with Craig, even though it is impossible to really fall in love overnight.
  
  Sandy's kids had had it by this point. Her oldest son left and went to live with an uncle, and the daughter that was still at home moved in with a cousin, so Sandy only had her 12 year old son left to move into Craig's home with her.
  
  The first time I met Craig, I kept trying to figure out what was wrong with him, what kind of guy would let a woman move in with him so quickly? But he seemed okay. He was intelligent and funny and he seemed to genuinely care for Sandy.
  
  On July 3rd Sandy and Craig invited us over for a BBQ, and we set off some fireworks in their driveway. I invit...
• Tavern in the Red

  December 31, 2009, In Contemplative, Diary, First person, My own personal thoughts, Nonfiction.  600 words. All. 6 comments.

  I just read in Yahoo News that the famous New York restaurant, Tavern on the Green is going out of business. I have never been there, and I never even knew that I wanted to go there until I read about it going out of business. Isn't that silly?
  
  I had heard of Tavern on the Green before, but who hasn't? I never knew anything about it and never gave any thought to it before though. Now I have seen pictures of its dining rooms and gardens and they are utterly beautiful; decorated in th...

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  I just read in Yahoo News that the famous New York restaurant, Tavern on the Green is going out of business. I have never been there, and I never even knew that I wanted to go there until I read about it going out of business. Isn't that silly?
  
  I had heard of Tavern on the Green before, but who hasn't? I never knew anything about it and never gave any thought to it before though. Now I have seen pictures of its dining rooms and gardens and they are utterly beautiful; decorated in the kind of lavishness that you just don't see anymore, Tiffany stained glass, Baccarat and Waterford chandeliers- one of the chandeliers said to have been owned by an Indian maharajah. Doesn't that just get your imagination stirring?
  
  The place was originally a "sheepfold." It housed sheep that grazed across the street in Central Park's sheep meadow. Since I have never been to Central Park either, I didn't know that part of it had once been a sheep meadow. A parks commissioner by the name of Robert Moses had the idea of turning it into a restaurant. If you think about it for a moment, it almost sounds preposterous to turn a place where livestock is housed into a restaurant, but it takes people of special vision to create something truly unique, and Tavern on the Green certainly was unique.
  
  The building has had its ups and downs over the decades, and changed hands a number of times. Warner LeRoy, a son of one of the producers of "The Wizard of Oz," took over the restaurant's lease in 1974 and scoured the world looking for whimsial things to add to the Tavern's ambiance. "With LeRoy's addition of the glass enclosed Crystal and Terrace Rooms, his lavish use of brass, stained glass, etched mirrors, original paintings, antique prints and, above all, chandeliers, Tavern was reincarnated. It became a glittering palace, Central Park's most spectacular structure.... Celebrities flocked to the restaurant to see and be seen....[It became] "the" place for New York's most prestigious events - charity and political functions, Broadway openings and international film premieres.
  (http://www.tavernonthegreen.com/history.asp?headinfo=abouttavern&subhead=history)
  
  I would love to just spend some time in the place, soaking up some of its history. I feel a strange sense of loss. Another piece of the past, a past I never even knew, is being shut down, stripped of...
• In the Movies

  July 2, 2009, 1,000 words. All. 3 comments.

  With all my feeling sorry for myself lately, I forgot to post one of the happy things that happened to us recently.
  
  On Memorial Day my mother called and asked me if I wanted to be in a movie. In the local events posted online there was an ad about a movie that needed extras to film an audience scene for a movie about a band that wins a country music contest. The ad said the movie was to be a Hollywood feature, that every age was welcome, and to dress in regular clothes.
  
  My ...

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  With all my feeling sorry for myself lately, I forgot to post one of the happy things that happened to us recently.
  
  On Memorial Day my mother called and asked me if I wanted to be in a movie. In the local events posted online there was an ad about a movie that needed extras to film an audience scene for a movie about a band that wins a country music contest. The ad said the movie was to be a Hollywood feature, that every age was welcome, and to dress in regular clothes.
  
  My oldest son said that he did not want to go because he said he did not want anything to do with country music. You know how 16 year olds can be. I told him that he needed to come because it would be fun, something he would remember for the rest of his life, a good experience, you know, all those clichés. With my urging, he reluctantly started getting ready.
  
  To tell you the truth, I really did not want to go. I was tired and depressed, and I had not bleached my hair since August of last year, so I had about 5 inches of roots showing. (I have since bleached my hair, so I am a platinum blond again ). Despite the fact that I really did not want to do it, a tiny part of me told myself to do it because I have always been the type of person to want to experience new things, so I forced myself to get ready, and when my mom got here the kids and I piled in her van and set out for Hanford where they were shooting the scenes.
  
  Hanford is about 20 miles away, but it is not a community we are very familiar with, so we drove past the theatre they were using several times. My youngest son kept telling us that he saw it, but we did not listen to him because when we asked him what it said on it, he told us that it said “Josh Taylor,” and we told him we were looking for the Fox Theatre, but when we did find it, the marquise did say “Josh Taylor” on it. We felt bad that we had not listened to him.
  
  So we got there and they had each of us sign a release form so giving them permission to use our images, and then they had us sign a book and give our emails so they can let us know when the movie will be coming out.
  
  Everyone was so nice. You hear so many stories about how television people are all phony and that they are vain, etc… and I for one was extremely surprised at how grateful they were just to have us there. I know that the people who showed up were doing them a ...

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