Roads
Roads Not Taken And One That Was19 total reviews
Comment from lyenochka
Enjoyed your biographical essay using Robert Frost's poem as a guideline and the common thread through the events. I am so glad your dad told you about the "wonderful critters" of reference books and that great story-writing challenge instead of being the creamed carrier playing football in freezing weather. Best wishes in the contest!
reply by the author on 21-Feb-2024
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Enjoyed your biographical essay using Robert Frost's poem as a guideline and the common thread through the events. I am so glad your dad told you about the "wonderful critters" of reference books and that great story-writing challenge instead of being the creamed carrier playing football in freezing weather. Best wishes in the contest!
Comment Written 21-Feb-2024
reply by the author on 21-Feb-2024
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I do not usually enter member-created contests since my Cody Schroder stories were so unceremoniously banned from being able to be entered in them. This one, I could not resist. Appreciate your comments and the review.
Comment from zanya
Wow - what an interesting entry for this contest overflowing with fond and not so fond memories and interlaced exquisitely with reference to the great Robert Frost and his classic poem- this one has to make it to the winner's enclosure - has my vote! And such an entertaining writing style.
reply by the author on 25-Feb-2024
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Wow - what an interesting entry for this contest overflowing with fond and not so fond memories and interlaced exquisitely with reference to the great Robert Frost and his classic poem- this one has to make it to the winner's enclosure - has my vote! And such an entertaining writing style.
Comment Written 20-Feb-2024
reply by the author on 25-Feb-2024
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Appreciate the sixer, your comments, and the review.
Comment from BethShelby
I've always liked that poem an have gotten the same sort of thing from it that you did. I heard someoue else say it didn't really matter becuase both roads were pretty much the same. I don't think so. There comes a turning point in every life where the choice we make can make a very big difference in the way our lives turn out.
reply by the author on 11-Feb-2024
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I've always liked that poem an have gotten the same sort of thing from it that you did. I heard someoue else say it didn't really matter becuase both roads were pretty much the same. I don't think so. There comes a turning point in every life where the choice we make can make a very big difference in the way our lives turn out.
Comment Written 10-Feb-2024
reply by the author on 11-Feb-2024
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Glad you enjoyed this posting. Appreciate your comments and the review.
Comment from Tom Horonzy
Reviewers should review in their minds the roads once taken and why not the alternative if and when given a choice. Being inquisitive, I would have started with the low road since climbing up takes effort, though on the other hand, going downhill eventually will end, and I'd have to climb up anyway. If my dad were involved, whichever I had taken would have been met pejoratively by him,
reply by the author on 11-Feb-2024
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Reviewers should review in their minds the roads once taken and why not the alternative if and when given a choice. Being inquisitive, I would have started with the low road since climbing up takes effort, though on the other hand, going downhill eventually will end, and I'd have to climb up anyway. If my dad were involved, whichever I had taken would have been met pejoratively by him,
Comment Written 10-Feb-2024
reply by the author on 11-Feb-2024
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Glad you enjoyed this posting. Appreciate your comments and the review.
Comment from T B Botts
Hello Brett,
I always enjoy reading about people and what helped to shape them into who they are now. Your dad was smart. I didn't develop an interest in writing until I was in eighth grade English class. The teacher gave us two sentences that were totally unrelated and told us to make a paragraph out of them. I loved it. Well done my friend.
Have a blessed day.
Tom
reply by the author on 11-Feb-2024
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Hello Brett,
I always enjoy reading about people and what helped to shape them into who they are now. Your dad was smart. I didn't develop an interest in writing until I was in eighth grade English class. The teacher gave us two sentences that were totally unrelated and told us to make a paragraph out of them. I loved it. Well done my friend.
Have a blessed day.
Tom
Comment Written 09-Feb-2024
reply by the author on 11-Feb-2024
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Glad you enjoyed this posting. Appreciate your comments and the review.
Comment from GWHARGIS
This was beautiful, Brett. You may have taken the less traveled path. I think doing that says a lot about a person. I have always loved that poem, though it took me years to understand its deeper meaning. Great piece. Gretchen
reply by the author on 11-Feb-2024
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This was beautiful, Brett. You may have taken the less traveled path. I think doing that says a lot about a person. I have always loved that poem, though it took me years to understand its deeper meaning. Great piece. Gretchen
Comment Written 09-Feb-2024
reply by the author on 11-Feb-2024
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Glad you enjoyed this posting. Appreciate the comments and the review.
Comment from Wayne Fowler
Good luck in the contest.
in depth researching - (in-depth)
The 62-word sentence that begins: To think... has 8 commas. For, it was a hard read.
After reading your 'Basal Cell Carcinoma' paragraph... go ahead and make sentences as long and crowded with commas as you please!
Best wishes.
reply by the author on 11-Feb-2024
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Good luck in the contest.
in depth researching - (in-depth)
The 62-word sentence that begins: To think... has 8 commas. For, it was a hard read.
After reading your 'Basal Cell Carcinoma' paragraph... go ahead and make sentences as long and crowded with commas as you please!
Best wishes.
Comment Written 08-Feb-2024
reply by the author on 11-Feb-2024
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Much appreciated comments and review.
Comment from Alexandra Trovato
This is excellent writing for the challenge! Interesting information! I follow your other work, too. Good descriptive words and imagery. I enjoy Robert Frost,Thank you for sharing this. I learned by reviewing it.
Best wishes!
Alex
reply by the author on 11-Feb-2024
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This is excellent writing for the challenge! Interesting information! I follow your other work, too. Good descriptive words and imagery. I enjoy Robert Frost,Thank you for sharing this. I learned by reviewing it.
Best wishes!
Alex
Comment Written 08-Feb-2024
reply by the author on 11-Feb-2024
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Appreciate your comments and the review.
Comment from Ric Myworld
A fan of your writing from day one, and appreciative of all the time you spent pointing out my blunders in the beginning. I've always wished I could express myself with your smooth flow and eloquence. Over time, I came to believe there is a certain kinship between us, and later on learned we have shared some similar experiences in boy's homes and the streets. But it isn't until now that I've realized how you've developed your polished wordings and talent, while I still come across much of the time as a street urchin. But now, I'm at least a street-wise guttersnipe who has somewhere to eat and sleep that isn't cold or wet. At least for now. LOL. Reading this I was disappointed that I'd been out of sixes since Monday. But when I got to the bottom of the page, one had reappeared that I was sure was gone. Thanks for sharing.
reply by the author on 11-Feb-2024
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A fan of your writing from day one, and appreciative of all the time you spent pointing out my blunders in the beginning. I've always wished I could express myself with your smooth flow and eloquence. Over time, I came to believe there is a certain kinship between us, and later on learned we have shared some similar experiences in boy's homes and the streets. But it isn't until now that I've realized how you've developed your polished wordings and talent, while I still come across much of the time as a street urchin. But now, I'm at least a street-wise guttersnipe who has somewhere to eat and sleep that isn't cold or wet. At least for now. LOL. Reading this I was disappointed that I'd been out of sixes since Monday. But when I got to the bottom of the page, one had reappeared that I was sure was gone. Thanks for sharing.
Comment Written 08-Feb-2024
reply by the author on 11-Feb-2024
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Always appreciate your comments, support, and reviews. But you know that.
Comment from Wendy G
This is a most interesting piece of writing, both with relationship to the Robert Frost poem, and in terms of who you were (or saw yourself as), and what your adoptive father saw in you. Very well done. Enjoyable read.
Wendy
reply by the author on 08-Feb-2024
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This is a most interesting piece of writing, both with relationship to the Robert Frost poem, and in terms of who you were (or saw yourself as), and what your adoptive father saw in you. Very well done. Enjoyable read.
Wendy
Comment Written 08-Feb-2024
reply by the author on 08-Feb-2024
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Glad you enjoyed this posting. Appreciate your comments and the review.
