For Random Learning Comes: Essays Fiction and Poetry by Andrea LeDew
For Random Learning Comes
For Random Learning Comes: Essays Fiction and Poetry by Andrea LeDew
{So happy to be back at Pegman, a 150-word challenge to write something related to the area of the world selected for the week. This week, Myanmar is the chosen location for What Pegman Saw. As a coastal country, Myanmar is feeling the effects of climate change, including a devastating cyclone in 2008 called …
{This is a response to What Pegman Saw, a 150-word challenge based on a place on the globe. This time it’s Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Thanks for the prompt and for stopping by to read!} Only the second pet we’d ever had, Charcoal jumped straight from the pound, into my lap. He was …
{This is a response to What Pegman Saw. This week we are in Laos in SE Asia. I took a little detour from Vientiane to a place called Phonsavan in central Laos. This area is known for the Plain of Jars, which consists of 90 sites, with collections of large ancient multi-ton jars of unknown …
White cat’s whisker bloom. Copyright Andrea LeDew {This is a response to What Pegman Saw an international story collection focussed on a different part of the world each week. This week we are in Riga, Latvia, in Northern Europe. The name of the monk, Dievmilis, means God-loving in Latvian. Hope you enjoy my somewhat less …
{This is a response to What Pegman Saw, a 150-word writing prompt. Pegman takes us to a different location each week, via Google Maps. This week, we are in Middle Torch Key, in my home state of Florida. For those who aren’t familiar with the term, a “double-wide’ is a trailer or manufactured home, …
{This week for What Pegman Saw we are in the Black Hills, South Dakota, USA. Many moons ago I visited there, when I lived in Minnesota. But this story is mostly about the rich heritage of Indigenous culture in the Midwest, and how little we tend to respect what has gone before the current dominant …
This story is in response to What Pegman Saw, a fiction prompt series, that promises a weekly whirlwind tour of the world. Each story of 150 words uses a location on Google Maps, as inspiration. This time, we are in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, (or “PA” as we used to say) in the US. This area …
{This is a response to What Pegman Saw, a globe-hopping 150-word prompt based on Google Maps. Each week we go to a new location, which this week is the city of Lod in Israel. If you go to the link above, you can see the city today in 360 view. I’d like to say …
This is a response to the prompt from What Pegman Saw, which uses Google Maps to provide inspiration for 150-word pieces. This is mine, and the prompt was Cusco, Peru. I remembered an acquaintance in college went on a mission trip to Cusco, and I seem to remember her reaction to the poverty she …
{This is a response to What Pegman Saw, a Google-Maps-inspired prompt. Today, the location is Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia. Not knowing much about this part of Australia, I have delved back into my own memories, to a trip my father took to Queensland, in order to study for his PhD. It was when …
{This is a response to What Pegman Saw, a Google Maps-inspired writing prompt of 150 words. This week we are in Patagonia, in Southern Chile, South America. This poem’s imagery is heavily indebted to a New York Times article, In Chilean Patagonia, Following a Track to the End of the World, by Joshua …
{This is a response to What Pegman Saw. We are in Greenland this week. I made a pun of it, and hope you will enjoy this poem. It touches on what must, or, at least, should, be serious business, if you happen to live in Greenland–or in Florida, for that matter! The picture is from …
{This is a response to What Pegman Saw, a 150-word prompt based on Google Maps. This week we are in Wales. My story has less to do with Wales than with how a certain middle-aged man (and woman) might feel, in a place like this. It is a series of short vignettes that are not …
{This is a response to a prompt from What Pegman Saw. Today the challenge brings us to Mount Everest, but my attentions were quickly diverted to another mountain range, in Peru, which contains the ruins of Machu Picchu. My mother actually did climb Machu Picchu at 70. Since this week is the one-year anniversary of …
{This is a response to What Pegman Saw, which, this week, is inspired by the Jiangxi Province in China, as presented by Google Maps. I may have to define a few terms: Mesonyx refers to an extinct wolf-like hoofed mammal, a carnivore. Its fossilized remains have been found in this area of China, as …
{This is a response to a prompt from What Pegman Saw, a 150-word challenge based on a Google Maps location. This time we are in The Baths, The British Virgin Islands. Thank you for the prompt and for reading. And I hope you warm to my character, and that this helps warm all those, …
{This is a response to What Pegman Saw. This week the 150 word prompt based on Google Maps takes us to Manhattan, but as a twist, my story has Manhattan coming to me, or at least to a town in Northern Florida. Please enjoy my courtroom drama, and thank you, as always, for the …
This is a response to What Pegman Saw, a weekly prompt, that uses Google Maps locations as inspiration for a 150-word piece of writing. We are in Estonia, in Northeastern Europe, this week. I played with the name of the country to come up with my story. Which, actually, takes place quite close to home. …
{This week, What Pegman Saw goes to my neighbor Georgia, to a site outside Albany, know as Radium Springs. Water cures including mineral water, have been popular since the 1850’s, but there was apparently a craze in the twenties and thirties that promoted water including radon or radium. Many other devices and products …
{This is a response to What Pegman Saw. Today we are in Mumbai, India, known as Bombay, long ago. I was interested to learn, in my research for this poem, that Mumbai is full of Art Deco architecture. Mumbai has its own version of Art Deco (known sometimes as Bombay Deco or Indo-Deco) incorporating various …
{This is a response to a prompt from What Pegman Saw. Today we are visiting the island of St Helena, to which Napoleon was sent in exile, after his defeat at Waterloo. Having just watched the new edition of Vanity Fair on Amazon Prime, I was very much in the mood for a Napoleonic saga …
{This is a response to a prompt from What Pegman Saw, a weekly, 150-word writing challenge based on a location in Google Maps. This week we are in Krakow, Poland, at the magnificent Julius Slowacki Theatre. I have imagined, here, a visit by a foreign dignitary, and have (perhaps tastelessly) decorated my piece with historical …
{This is a response to a prompt from What Pegman Saw, a writing challenge based on Google Maps Street View. This week we are in Big Sky, Montana. I composed a simple poem based on the picture shown. Hope you enjoy it. The sparcity of punctuation is intentional. Thank you for the prompt and for …
