Daily Prompt: Fantasy The Tooth Fairy (or Easter Bunny, or Santa Claus . . .): a fun and harmless fiction, or a pointless justification for lying to children? I am British, so the Easter Bunny never paid a call to our house, but the Tooth Fairy visited at night when our teeth fell out and Santa …
Category archives: Memory
The ticking crocodile
Daily Prompt: All Grown Up When was the first time you really felt like a grown up (if ever)? Do we ever really grow up? I think that most of us are a little like Peter Pan at heart; our grown-up-ness is just a front. Who of us does not throw an occasional snowball, or splash …
Lilliputian
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. …
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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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 …