Thursday Thoughts: What Happened to My Purple Pen?

In going through some notebooks and cleaning stuff out, I found the following lines to a poem I started back in 2010.

In September of Twenty-Ten,

I bought a brand new purple pen.

I sure thought the pen was special when I purchased it, but I do not remember the pen or what happened to it. I also do not remember if I intended to use those lines in a sonnet or some other form poem. I found verses in the notebook which I finished or rewrote. I cannot remember why I wrote the lines about the pen or what type of poem I intended to write.

What I do remember about 2010 is the chaos and the worry that surrounded me. My mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in November or December 2009 and I spent the rest of the year trying to get out of the chaos that accompanied the diagnosis. I am sure that Mom was suffering fro Alzheimer's disease before that, but the it was not diagnosed until 2009.

Mom got  worse in late 2010 or early 2011, I am not sure which because my life seemed to fall apart after the diagnosis and I am just getting it back together. Mom died on November 29, 2012.

One Word Wednesday: Pens

Pens are important to a writer!  A pen helps you keep notes, make lists, lets you sign your name, and gives you something to chew on when you are nervous. In order to be useful to an author or anyone else, a pen has to have ink and a ball point that does not skip. Pens are wonderful and helpful tools when they are filled with ink and write without skipping. When they run out of ink or skip then the only thing they are good for is chewing on when you are nervous.

I just threw away two pens because one was completely out of ink and the other skipped when I attempted to write down an important phone number. I have two less pens in my house and in my purse, but t he pens I do have work properly. At least as far as I know  they work properly. If they do not work then I have to find a business that gives away free pens or I have to go to the store to purchase a package of pens.

I prefer the free pens for two reasons. First, I do not have to spend money on them. Second, the usually work just as good or better then the pens I purchase. There is a place next to the laundromat I go to and it has pens on the counter for people to take with them. I have to go in there anyway in a couple of days so while I am there I will get a pen with the businesses name on it.