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First Thing in my Mind… Nightmares
I passed a store that was totally dark inside, no clerks or cashiers, and also no gate over the doorway. The only light came from the dim lightbulbs of the walkway that went all the way around the mall, with railings against the overlook that plummeted straight down to the first floor. This level seemed…
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Isaac: “Laughter”
Another Daily Prompt today, this time asking me what makes me laugh. When I was picking out a title, my mind went straight to Abraham and Sarah in Genesis, when they named their son ‘Isaac’ because of Sarah’s laughter when the angels told Abraham his wife would bear him a son. That’s not something that…
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Cross-Country
As a Daily Writing Prompt, I’ve been asked what vehicle I would choose on a cross-country trip. Airplane, train, bus, car, or bike? Actually, I’ve done this once, and it was the most wonderful trip I have ever taken. We drove across the country to the opposite coast to visit our family, and on the…
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Kiss the Rain
Another daily prompt post… This one asked what my favorite weather is. Like most writers and poets and artists, I love a good rainstorm. Sitting inside on a stormy day, looking out the window at the beautiful gray world outside with raindrops fogging the glass, a mug of tea in my hands… it’s perfect. It’s…
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Instinctively
Do I trust my instincts? This is the question I was asked in a daily prompt recently and it got me thinking. Do I? A better question, should I? I believe the human will and mind is fallen. By extension, then, it’s not unlikely that human instinct is far different. Be that as it may,…
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Location, Location, Location
As another Daily Writing Prompt has asked me today, “If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be?” We have to remove several factors first. First, the factor of where I hope my children will go to school. The school I’ve gone to for the past thirteen years of my life is…
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Tick, Tock
Time? Do I need time? Time to work and time to sleep and time to live and time to breath and time to love and time to lose and time to win and time to play and time to rest and time to read and time to sing and time to eat and time to…
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My Mother
Describe a family member, you say? My dad’s pretty awesome; he works basically three jobs, but not because we’re poor. It’s because he wants to, and because people besides us need his help. I’m pretty proud of him. But honestly, my mom is probably the most amazing person I’ve ever met. (Sorry Dad.) She runs…
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Proud?
These writing prompts don’t all make sense to me. Some do, in fact, most do; but there are days, like this one, when the prompt does not make sense to me. Why ask us what makes us proud? It seems to me that this is a little bit of a loaded question. Everyone feels pressured…
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Stuff and Things…
As a reply to a Daily Writing Prompt I figured this one was going to be worth the time to tell about. I have a lot of things going on, and a lot of thoughts about all of them, so this might be a longer post. First, I’m a senior in high school, and there’s…
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