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Well, what I meant was…
WordPress Daily Prompt: It’s a Text, Text, Text, Text World How do you communicate differently online than in person, if at all? How do you communicate emotion and intent in a purely written medium?...
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Who knew?
Please tell me this is a figment of my imagination. In other news–well, in other news, it seems a man was nearly swallowed by a hippo… and some poor mama goose is sitting on something (no one knows...
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Potato salad days
Some of the best times in my life were when people opted to be quiet for a few moments and just fish. Fisherfolk don’t go to the water to talk, after all. If you walk out to the edge of a huge rock...
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Perspective
WordPress Daily Prompt: The Glass Is the glass half-full, or half-empty? ___ There have been times when I would’ve sworn the glass was half-empty. So far, it turns out that it was half-full. That may...
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The *Sixth* Starter
WordPress Daily Prompt: Success! Tell us about a time where everything you’d hoped would happen actually did. — It was so long ago, I had to look up one name, but find that I knew it after all. Son...
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In da ‘hood
WordPress Daily Prompt: Landscape When you gaze out your window — real or figurative — do you see the forest first, or the trees? — When I gaze out any window, I always see the forest first, because...
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“Seaworthy!”
WordPress Daily Prompt: Morphing Language evolves. The meaning of a word can shift over time as we use it differently — think of “cool,” “heavy,” or even “literally.” Today, give a word an...
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AwwwwSOME!
WordPress Daily Prompt: I want to know what love is We each have many types of love relationships — parents, children, spouses, friends. And they’re not always with people; you may love an animal, or...
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To where you are
WordPress Daily Prompt: Hi, Mom! Today is Mother’s Day in the United States. Wherever in the world you are, write your mother a letter. Photographers, share a photo that says mothering. — Hi Ma, I...
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The best is yet to be
WordPress Daily Prompt: Fill in the Blank Three people walk into a bar… — Matt had cut his supper visit short so he could be first at the rope. He must’ve been standing here a half hour by now, but he...
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Paraclete
WordPress Daily Prompt: Unconventional Love Over the weekend, we explored different ways to love. Today, tell us about the most unconventional love in your life. Photographers, share a photo that says...
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No one’s on third…
Now, this is one reason why I’ve done a play on the old Abbot and Costello “Who’s on first” skit, in this blog’s WP address. I read this phrase moments ago in online news about NOLA’s Mothers Day...
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Jahar, Ari, and…
It’s awful. More than awful. Hellish. We don’t know the extent of the 19-year old’s involvement in the wilful killing and maiming of people at the recent Boston Marathon bombing, but we know he was...
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Kath
WordPress Daily Prompt: The Interview Interview your favorite fictional character. — Glyn never knew you, but not even your own sister did? Sad. There’s a certain refusal to acknowledge the reality of...
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Sometimes..
WordPress Daily Prompt: Memories For Sale On a weekend road trip, far away from home, you stumble upon a garage sale in a neighborhood you’re passing through. Astonished, you find an object among the...
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Under the big top
I just figured it was time to come out with it: I’m okay with circus animal trainers. As we used to say and some still do, “Hey, it’s a free country!” They’re entitled to their thoughts, right? I...
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True story…
WordPress Daily Prompt: Too Big To Fail Tell us about something you would attempt if you were guaranteed not to fail (and tell us why you haven’t tried it yet). — I would invite Johnny Depp to one of...
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Sunshine, lollipops and rainbows…sorta
I wake up the same ol’ me every morn, someone not thinking of life except in pleasant terms. That is especially so in Spring, now, under the bright sun early bathing us, and birds swooping, singing,...
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Humility
WordPress Daily Prompt: Helping Hand Tell us about the most surprising helping hand you’ve ever received. — I hadn’t found it overly surprising at the time, or maybe I was all surprised out by then,...
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Maybe I’m amazed
Long ago, if I’d had any inkling that folks in 22 countries (uh, in less than a week) would be looking in on something of mine, I’d have boarded up the windows, jump-started the old VW bus, and headed...
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