About Mark's Sandbox/
Wordypecker
A little humour. some serious thoughts and the adventures of Mr & Mrs T all in a melange/sandbox for you funky folks out there.
The aim is to bring a smile to the dial, stir the pot and not take ourselves too seriously.
So come play in the Sandbox
About Mark's Sandbox
Passion for Words
You may know the feeling. You’re reading a vivid, enthralling passage by one of your favorite authors. As you turn the pages, you can’t help but ask yourself: Just how do they keep me hanging on every word?
I founded Marksandbox with the goal of helping readers demystify the writing process. As my posts dissect recently published books—taking deep dives into the characteristics of good writing—I hope to help you build a greater appreciation for what you read and even spark ideas for your own work.
Marksandbox
A Bookworm’s Paradise
Welcome, voracious readers! If your appetite for reading is insatiable, and you love putting your own pen to paper, Marksandbox is the place for you. Let’s grow together as we delve into the world of words.
Thomas Jefferson
“The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.”
Marksandbox
A Bookworm’s Paradise
Welcome, voracious readers! If your appetite for reading is insatiable, and you love putting your own pen to paper, Marksandbox is the place for you. Let’s grow together as we delve into the world of words.
The Perfect Storm
When two or more unrelated events occur at the same time adding to the severity of a storm or by analogy to an event it is known as a...
Unsilenced
“What in the world are we going to do? Look at what everybody’s going through What kind of world do you want it to be? Am I the future or...
A Funky Chicken Dance With Sunscreen
It’s long at 7 mins but fun. Thanks Lil for the heads up – will you dance the funky chicken dance with me if I wear sunscreen?
Footsteps to freedom
In a letter to his parents my father described in detail his escape from a prisoner of war camp in Italy. It was hard to read his hand...
Le Monde Est Stone/The World Is Stone
Funky Folks this song and the lyrics snuck into the playlist of my morning musings. I sat up and said, “Hello, What’s this then? I had...
Up Around The Bend
We came across the ”Butterfly Brush” paintings quite by chance. Unsuspectingly we went a way we had gone before. It was up around the...
Push Me, Pull Me
“Where are you taking me this morning, my Lovely and what’s this rush Dear-Heart?” “Surprise, surprise! That’s why you’re in tow my...
She Who Must Be Obeyed
In the Land of Literature Queen Shebook surrounded herself with books and books and books. She sat on a throne of books, went to a bed of...
What’s The Buzz?
This buzz is not Funk. A story within a story reveals that years ago, in the time of my misspent youth I was fortunate enough to join a...
Footsteps
Funky Folks me be findin’ someting’ dat walked, nay stomped across my mind leaving behind great grand footsteps, footsteps that me canna...
Crossed, Tossed Lines.
Act One, Scene 2 Vern and Flea noted as ‘V&F’ in the script, enter the street from left admiring the rings on Vern’s middle finger which...
A Barney Yarn
Hellooo…Hic!…Funky Folks. How this yarn unravelled is beyond the pale. After weeks, months and nearly a year of separating, distancing...
Skywalker Meme’s
Greatest Good Early Morning Funky Folks. I wus wokein’ earl dis morn ‘cause me wunted ta chek-owt Sunrise ‘n howdis transmitin’ me-to-me...
Jeremy Taylor and his Transplant Calypso
In his own words Mr. Taylor tells of how this piece came to be… “During the late sixties I took part in a weekly television show for...
A Funky Moment.
Funky Folks I had to include this one for us. “This is our dance“E.P. A funk collection of movie clips all in the name of Funk and a...
Les Miserables in Lockdown
Two Of my favorites from Les Miserables. For the first one think/read coronavirus where appropriate. A prediction that the virus will be...
Major Tom
Good morning Funky Folks. I woke to find myself back in Music Land and it proved to be a “Walk on the wild-side of life.” for there...
Crossed Lines
Act One, Scene 1 VERN, otherwise known as Vernacular, of African American decent slouches against the street wall. Flea (Bubbles bro)...
Naming One’s Child – Raison d’etre
Good morning Funky Folks. Me thinks it’s time for some explanation regarding the naming of one’s child. Names are based on cultures,...
Poet’s Dreams – a Sequel
Carpe Diem Funky Folks. I seized the day in William’s Hamlet, for there lay the Poets Hall of Fame. Lately it had been subject to a...
