Daily Prompt: I’ve decided to combine yesterday’s prompt with today’s prompt. Why? Simply because I had such a great idea yesterday but failed to put it in writing. Lucky me, it just so happens that today’s prompt compliments yesterday’s prompt. So, now that I’ve completely confused you, let me explain. When both prompts are…
Category: Personal Stories
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…
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,…
What a “Novel” Idea!
I love finding cool Groupons, and that love becomes ever deeper when the said groupon is cheap. One day while wandering the groupon field I discovered one that offered a “novel writing course” for only five bucks. “Well,” I say to myself, “It’s cool and it’s cheap. It’s a “Win-Win,” and before the words left…
Treasure Chest
Writing 101 Day 3: Treasure Chest “Hope should be treasured, loved and kissed.” ____ Lisa Hardy Treasure Chest I opened the chest to look inside, And there she lay. Had she died? Dirty, cold and all alone… There in the chest she called home. Hope, beaten by guilt and shame, Lay there dying, crippled and lame. Wiping at tears…
10 Lessons I learned From Bugs Bunny
Writing 101 Day 2: Today, let’s write a list. Today, write your own list on one of these topics: Things I Like Things I’ve Learned Things I Wish 10 lessons I learned from Bugs Bunny: “I knew I should have taken that left turn at Albuquerque.” —–Wrong turns are like shit: It happens! Recognize it, change…
I Write Because…
Writing 101: Day 1 Assignment: Why do you write? This is a question you can answer again and again, as your response might evolve over time. Examples: “I write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still” — Sylvia Plath “That is why I write — to try to turn sadness…
Simply Fried Corn
Growing up in the country I ate my fair share of “fresh from the garden” vegetables. My Mom, a single parent, worked hard to put food on the table. During the summer months, after a full night’s work in a cotton mill, she came home every morning to work and care for a large vegetable garden. I…
Be Loud Be Proud
The following is an excerpt from an article I wrote for RISE, my church. It’s my reflection upon Shenandoah Valley’s First Pride festival. I felt confident I could do it. After all, they had said, “Just show up…hand out stickers…hand out freeze-pops…and no words required.” “No words” appealed greatly to my introverted self, so Corinne…
Redhead Reflections 