• Sign in
  • Sign up 
  • Welcome
  • FAQ
  • Block Explorer 
  • Night Mode
  • Stolen Accounts Recovery 
  • Change Account Password 
  • Vote for Witnesses 
  • Hive Proposals 
  • OpenHive Chat 
  • Developer Portal 
  • Hive Whitepaper 
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Service
logo
  • Posts
  • Proposals
  • Witnesses
  • Our dApps
LoginSign up

mandyjvic (39)Hivebuzz level badge

76 followers21 posts3 following6 HP
Blacklisted Users
Muted UsersFollowed BlacklistsFollowed Muted Lists

Joined May 2017 Active 8 years ago

  • Blog
  • Posts
  • Replies
  • Social
  • Notifications
  • Wallet
Posts
Comments
Payouts
  • mandyjvic (39)in #fiction • 8 years ago
    featured

    Sorting through stuff

    “There’s something wrong,” Teddy tells me. “Mum’s sorting . . . through stuff.”  “Of course she is,” I reply.  “She’s got almost a century of Gran’s memorabilia now occupying…
    $0.00
       2 3
    • mandyjvic (39)in #fiction • 8 years ago
      featured

      Threadbare

      “I’m pregnant.”     The words ambush me; like the final siren when you’re one point down.  No time to reassess, regroup, make the winning play; just a heavy realization that…
      $0.00
         1 0
      • mandyjvic (39)in #fiction • 8 years ago
        featured

        Fractured

        The door to our station wagon slams shut with the heavy hand of a child eager to be in the company of his friends.  Our son, Sam turns to us, leans in through Kristin’s open…
        $0.00
           1 0
        • mandyjvic (39)in #fiction • 8 years ago
          featured

          Pressing

          I step from the sanctuary of my Hyundai and stand on the sidewalk, looking into my parents’ lounge room window.  My mother is sliding a white blouse around a coat hanger that she…
          $0.00
             3 0
          • mandyjvic (39)in #fiction • 8 years ago
            featured

            Stepping out

            The button is round and grey and glossy with the words Unfuck the world in glaring neon red.  Even as I lurch along with the other commuters I am transfixed by that stupid…
            $21.95
            • Past Payouts $21.95
            • - Author $18.26
            • - Curators $3.69
             18 0
          • mandyjvic (39)in #story • 8 years ago
            featured

            Hostage

            “I’m sure he’s in there.”   Officer Ralston stepped into the rain.  “Is he armed?”  Amos shrugged.  “He’s got my silver candlesticks.”  Ralston paced.  If Amos Fulton was…
            $0.00
               1 0
            • mandyjvic (39)in #fitness • 8 years ago
              featured

              15 lessons I didn't know I'd learn from running a marathon - Part III

              And finally . . . we are on the home stretch . . . or at least the road leading up to it.  I was huffing and heaving when I passed my buddy Gary and a friend he’d picked up…
              $0.00
                 2 0
              • mandyjvic (39)in #fitness • 8 years ago
                featured

                15 lessons I didn't know I'd learn from running a marathon - Part II

                We take up the story, just prior to M-day . . .  My friend Gary and his wife Sharon were to arrive the day before the big event. So I spent some time making my flat respectable.…
                $0.00
                   3 0
                • mandyjvic (39)in #fitness • 8 years ago
                  featured

                  15 lessons I never knew I'd learn from running a marathon - Part I

                  I am wearing the smirk of the cat that got the cream and the plump cushion in a brilliant ray of sunlight; the fighting fish that has his very own wave pool, and plastic weed;…
                  $0.00
                     3 0
                  • mandyjvic (39)in #photography • 8 years ago
                    featured

                    Iguazu Falls - Argentina

                    Pictures from the amazing Iguazu Falls Argentina. They do not do this magnificent natural wonder justice. Enjoy! ![] ![] ![]
                    $0.40
                    • Past Payouts $0.40
                    • - Author $0.32
                    • - Curators $0.08
                     5 0
                  • mandyjvic (39)in #poetry • 8 years ago
                    featured

                    Reflection

                    My mother liked to tell me,  “I thought you had a happy childhood.”  I ache for the woman   So wounded that she could not see,  The pain behind the smile  I pasted on my…
                    $0.09
                    • Past Payouts $0.09
                    • - Author $0.08
                    • - Curators $0.00
                     5 3
                  • mandyjvic (39)in #story • 8 years ago
                    featured

                    Ants

                    Ants. I have ants in my kitchen.   I try to let them live, the ants, but somewhere along their path, they dispose of their obligations to themselves.   They infiltrate my water…
                    $0.00
                       2 0
                    • mandyjvic (39)in #funny • 8 years ago
                      featured

                      The Kindness of Strangers

                      It’s easy nowadays, to focus on all that’s wrong with the world. In fact, I can spend the better part of a day recounting the sins of the universe against me. But when something…
                      $0.00
                         2 2
                      • mandyjvic (39)in #poetry • 8 years ago
                        featured

                        One precious single thread

                        Sometimes life brings us beautiful gifts  Then seemingly tears them away   Before we can weave them into the fabric of our life.  But they are there nonetheless,  Perhaps…
                        $0.00
                           1 0
                        • mandyjvic (39)in #psychology • 8 years ago
                          featured

                          Standing up for yourself doesn’t have to mean standing on someone else

                          I’m unsure I should put this in writing but….I think I’m getting wiser. I know, right? Heady stuff.  During my childhood I was taught that my opinion didn’t count and that if…
                          $0.00
                             2 0
                          • mandyjvic (39)in #writing • 8 years ago
                            featured

                            The feedback tug-of-war

                            Giving and receiving feedback at opposite ends of the scale. Sometimes neither giver nor receiver is comfortable. It can create anxiety and even animosity.  For me, this is…
                            $0.00
                               2 0
                            • mandyjvic (39)in #emotions • 8 years ago
                              featured

                              I can’t make you feel anything. You choose how you feel.

                              So true, right? We allow people to make us feel a certain way. Accordingly, if we are hurt or disappointed or emotionally or psychologically damaged, it’s simply a character…
                              $0.17
                              • Past Payouts $0.17
                              • - Author $0.15
                              • - Curators $0.02
                               2 0