Tuesday's Towers

Tuesday for two

Towers with a view

Rattled awake

Alarm, denial, grief

Stare into the serpent's eye

Humans falling from the sky

Debris rains in gray, black billows

Churning guts, clutching pillows

No mistake

Lives taken by a thief

Time stands, still

Dusting of September chill

Blown apart

Airplanes, pieces of your heart

Fallen icon's wake

Staring, crying, disbelief

A sea of blue

Towers taken out of view

~Deborah Galarza 9/11/2011

New Game

In spite of my good intentions and those of thousands of other women on Facebook,
the new "Game" seems to have backfired in more ways than one via mislead friends with heartfelt congratulations, concerned e-mails, alarmed relatives, etc...

Before I joined in the 'fun', I questioned the premise of the delivery (pardon the pun) to raise awareness but who am I? I know one thing. It didn't seem quite right but I, like so many other well meaning people, jumped in anyway.

Then, I ran across this article http://www.viewshound.com/internet/2011/9/5/the-new-facebook-fad-im-four-weeks-along?utm_campaign=article&utm_medium=wall&utm_source=Facebook

The writer may seem overly dramatic to some but she does make a good point in her overall message and I had to face what I basically ignored when the game was first passed to me. It really is in bad taste.

I don't know where the idea came from and though, I see where the tactic is used to raise awareness to make people curious enough to ask, I believe we can be a little more creative than this. No offense to the game creator(s). I doubt he/she thought there would be this type of backlash but let's think about it. After all, how many women with this disease cannot have children because of damaged organs or chemotherapy? How many women can breastfeed after breast cancer?

Suddenly, the game feels thoughtless and I'm sorry to say, I played along.

I enjoy supporting our fellow sisters and brothers and I'm always up for a good game but I believe we need to rethink this one.

Just saying.

~Deborah Manning-Galarza 9/6/2011









http://www.viewshound.com/internet/2011/9/5/the-new-facebook-fad-im-four-weeks-along?utm_campaign=article&utm_medium=wall&utm_source=Facebook

Coming Soon My Screenplay

So, the job here is to write and write and write some more. I've been writing but not here. I'm writing a screenplay. Yep. You read right and you read write.

My screenplay title is going to be one of a few possibilities unless something better pops into my fuzzy fat brain.

1.) Fly the Friendly Skies
2.) The Only Way to Fly
3.) Silver Lining
4.) By the Seat of My Pants
5.) Flight Plan
6.) Broken Wings
7.) Champagne Airlines
9.) Grounded on The Wings of a Dream
10.) It's a Bird! It's a Plane! It's a Blond!

Bet you can't guess what this screenplay is about. Okay, so it is obvious but there is no way you can imagine the situations that the main character finds herself in. Tune in next week for my hook. This isn't it.

Check back often and come with me on my journey of writing, re-writing, and blogging about writing which in all honesty is called, procrastination. My friend and foe.