So glad you have signed up to receive the For Random Learning Comes Newsletter! This is the sixty-sixth edition. Previous editions can be found on the blog's Newsletter page. I send it out weekly, so if you don't get my email on Saturday morning, please let me know! (Check your junk and spam folders too.) My five latest posts are at the end of this newsletter, latest first. *** This has been a crazy week for everyone in Florida and we were certainly biting our nails here in North Florida, as we watched our neighbors to the South (Orlando, Daytona, St Augustine)and especially to the Southwest (Fort Myers, Cape Coral, Sanibel...)get hammered. And now poor South Carolina gets a taste of Ian too. For such times was the phrase "There but for the grace of God go I" created. Not until this morning did we know that storm surge would be minimal in our area. The winds came through on Wednesday and Thursday but mostly just tossed down nosegays of oak leaves and twigs to decorate our far too empty deck. We have a bit of yardwork to do this weekend, but otherwise we were very lucky. That fact did not of course prevent me from being glued to the Weather Channel for three days straight. Somehow I still managed to create a poem. Mostly inspired by the short tempers which accompany stressful occasions like Category 4 hurricanes threatening to arrive on your doorstep, it has more to do with relationships than weather. In my poem Teacher's Pet, I imagine a couple. One is dominant and no nonsense and driven, while the other is less practical and dreamy and idle. As such, the dreamer is completely unable to live up to the doer's high expectations, especially in a situation of extreme stress. This dynamic, to me, is much like the poorest student in the class trying in vain to become the teacher's pet. Hope all of you are safe and well and will dig deep in your pockets to help those in need in the rest of Florida. Andrea *** If you haven't signed up for my newsletter yet, I hope you will consider doing so. And tell your friends! There's a blue signup form on every page. You can also follow my Twitter account, @AndreaLedew,which posts my previously published blogposts, poems and flash fiction. This will give you an idea of just how much mischief I've been up to over the past five or six years. Thanks again for your continued readership and support. It means a lot to me. Have a great week! Andrea The links below will take you to the five most recent posts. The blue logo takes you to the homepage. The section on English Majors has the most recent stuff.

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