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Anxiety: Losing my memory

Day Seventeen: Your Personality on the Page Today’s Prompt: We all have anxieties, worries, and fears. What are you scared of? Address one of your worst fears. My grandmother suffers from dementia and memory loss. My mother also forgetting things. … Continue reading

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Dog Found

Day Thirteen: Serially Found: On day four, you wrote a post about losing something. Today’s Prompt: write about finding something. Dogs run away. The dog we have now runs across the street to eat the food which a neighbor puts out … Continue reading

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“Purchasing” — my word on p. 29

Day Fourteen: To Whom It May Concern Today’s Prompt: Pick up the nearest book and flip to page 29. What’s the first word that jumps off the page? Use this word as your springboard for inspiration. The school librarian gave … Continue reading

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A tall house surrounded by short houses

Day Eleven: Size Matters (In Sentences): Today’s Prompt: Where did you live when you were 12 years old? I go back to the house where my sister and I grew up almost every Christmas. It is a drive-by visit. Now the house … Continue reading

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So I walked into this bar…

…and sat down at the farthest seat from the door since I was by myself with a book to read. But not for long. I was accosted by a man, whom I had met before several times since he is a … Continue reading

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100 word short story challenge

After their vacation, she sorted through the stack of mail, opened a letter and paused. She  looked at her husband and said, “Did you know your mom got remarried?” He put down his cell phone.

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The last thing I “lost”

When I got the prompt “Lost Serially” yesterday from Writing101, I was less than enthused, but willing to give it a go. For a day I started cataloguing things that I had lost recently. It was not a very long … Continue reading

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Music: a life-sound track — Frank Sinatra, Beethoven and Faure

I grew up listening to Frank Sinatra. My parents were huge fans but especially my father who was also a radio broadcaster. He broadcast in the days when folks had to create their own mixes using cuts from real records. … Continue reading

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The Cave Church of St. Peter in Antioch (Antakya)

Looking back on a school trip to eastern Turkey, I wonder whether there was a subtext, a hidden message conveyed by the places where we were taken on one particular day in June. We visited the cave church of St. … Continue reading

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Writing101: What weighs on my mind

Just a few minutes ago, I called a good friend who  lives far away and is battling cancer. Her voice was hoarse, and she sounded exhausted. Her doctors have switched her chemo attempting to arrest the growth of several tumors. … Continue reading

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