Tag: DailyPrompt
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Welcome to My Home
(Photo101, first assignment, 2015 March 3] WELCOME TO MY PLACE. {The beautiful Bleeding Heart is from last year. It is safe and sound under the clump of snow seen to the right in the photo below.] This scene is the one that I enjoy the most when I return from traveling. The barn and the…
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If I could clone myself…well, I’d be outta here!
The prompt for blogging101 today asks what I would do if I could clone myself into several of Me, how would I assign responsibilities. So this is my answer to that good question. I am creating five copies, or clones, of myself. (I suppose it is too much to ask that one or more of…
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Quoting Lines from the Silver Screen–Will Smith
One of my favorite movie quotes is from INDEPENDENCE DAY, which has several comments worth quoting. In the scene when the heroes have just taken off to destroy the alien mother-ship, watching a super fast alien fighter plane doing impossible maneuvers, Will Smith says: “I have GOT to get me one of THESE!” Yeah, I…
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What would I do with 90% more brain efficiency?
The Daily Prompt for today inspired me to break my bad case of writer’s block and get to work commenting on the question: what would I do if I could unlock the 90% of my brain that is closed, according to experts in the field that claim we humans only use about 10% of our…
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Kicking the Habit…take that Candy Crush!
THE ART OF ANNOYANCE… I am a compulsive obsessive creature that tip-taps tattoos with my fingernails on any surface. I count the holes in my Crocs (there are 13,) I like having ten of anything, be it beads, cookies, peas…and always try to sort anything that comes in multiple numbers into groups of five. Actually…
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All or Nothing… which is the quest?
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “All or Nothing?.” This is an easy prompt for me. I prefer to be wanting everything rather than nothing. Wanting everything is often meant critically…when I say I want to study everything, grouchy stern people say “that isn’t possible. You can’t study everything.” Well, that’s true of…
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Spinning Yarns, part 2–Me, Myself, and I
Speaking of writing in the first person, I have struggled with this for years. It is really annoying to have to re-write when composing an email to a friend. The I-did-this, and I-did that, gets old and needs to be repaired grammatically. However…that might get pretty boring and contrived. Sorry to be the grammar police,…
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Spinning Yarns…wonderful double entrendre…
Ah ha! I just got it…”spinning yarns” has a double meaning: a literal definition in which a spinner spins yarns, on a spinning wheel, creating something substantial from something entirely different: producing a strong workable thread of wool or acrylic fibres. Actually something of a misnomer, as what the spinner actually spins are fibres, to…
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Why Auntie Buzz is the life of the party…
Gradmama2011 November 19, 2014 at 1:54 pm Eccentric people are my favorite kind. What is the opposite of eccentric? Plain, Conforming, Ordinary? I wonder who set up the rule book for behavior? Who decided how we all should act, and set the standards for our respective cultures? Picture a committee of faceless, uninteresting, boring people…
A State of Mind 