Into Oblivion

Daily Prompt:   What is your earliest memory? Describe it in detail, and tell us why you think that experience was the one to stick with you. I’ve sat here for a good hour, debating: Should I keep this post light and funny  or should I expose the darkness of what I presume to be my first…

Welcome To My World

Daily Prompt:  Write whatever you normally write about, and weave into the mix song titles.  My response:  Welcome To My World   Luna punched my face with “The Eye Of The Tiger”  so I said goodbye to sleep, rolled out of bed and asked her, “What’s New Pussycat?”  She swished her tail, ran like like “Bat Out…

Please, Don’t Frighten Me So!

Today’s writing prompt asks the question:  How would your life be different if you were incapable of feeling fear? Please, don’t frighten me with such a question!  Some of my favorite things hinge upon the aspect of experiencing fear. In the absence of fear, The Walking Dead would lose its appeal, Stephen  King would be…

My Coffee Would Never Get Cold

The following is my response to today’s Daily Prompt:   You’ve been given the superpower to change one law of nature. How do you use it? Damn it, it’s cold again! I had sat down to devour today’s headlines and fell head first into the politics at hand.  Mesmerized by what candidate A was saying about candidate B,…

Muslims and Refugees: There is No Middle Ground

“To be or not to be: That is the question…” thus begins Hamlet’s soliloquy from William Shakespeare’s tragedy, “Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.” It is suggested that Shakespeare wrote these words in the early 1600’s and that they were first published in 1604. Since their birth they have echoed the halls of many a theater and…