Daily Prompt: Perspective Write about the last disagreement you had with a friend or family member — from their perspective. I don’t do disagreements. I had that kind of upbringing that dictates peace-in-the-home at any cost. We were never allowed dissent as children; were not permitted to dispute with our parents or to argue between ourselves. …
Monthly archives: March 2013
Weekly Writing Challenge: Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction. Bonus Post
I enjoyed yesterday’s challenge post. While I was working out what I wanted to do I came across some more photographs that I think I might enjoy revisiting, so here is a bonus post that continues my theme of strangers and friends. Weekly Writing Challenge: Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction For this challenge, we want to …
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Weekly Writing Challenge: Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction. Shine A Light
Weekly Writing Challenge: Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction For this challenge, we want to see a photo of someone looking truly happy. Not “I’m-smiling-for-this-photo” happy, but really, deeply, twinkle-in-the-eyes happy. When we’re smiling a genuine smile, our whole faces get involved — our whole bodies, for that matter. There’s a light in our eyes. We look relaxed; there’s …
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The S-sense of it
Daily Prompt: Twenty-Five There are 26 letters in the English language, and we need every single one of them. Want proof? Choose a letter and write a blog post without using it. (Feeling really brave? Make it a vowel!) (wordle) Today we are invited to write a lipogram: a kind of limited writing or word game …
To travel hopefully slowly is a better thing than to arrive
With apologies to Robert Louis Stevenson. Daily Prompt: No, Thanks Is there a place in the world you never want to visit? Where, and why not? There was a time when I believed that travel was not for me. I had no wanderlust and really could not understand why, with all that Great Britain has to offer, …
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Sweatering it out
Earlier today, as I was reading a Freshly Pressed blog post, I was taken aback a bit by this: Ours was a frugal household, where finances dictated a thermostat set at a bone-chilling 58 degrees through even the worst of the South Dakota winter nights. and this These days, we set the thermostat at a …