Stream of Consciousness Sunday is a five minute brain dump hosted by Jana’s Thinking Place . Today’s (totally optional) prompt: What new tricks have you learned or would like to learn? Go I want to learn: – How to get the posts out of my head and onto the blog. If I could do that… I’d fill volumes! – How to budget my time. There are [...]
Stream of Consciousness Sunday is a five minute writing exercise. The rules are simple. No proofreading, no editing. Just a pure 5 minute brain dump. Click on the badge and head over to Jana’s Thinking Place if you’d like to link up. No Writing Prompt Today: GO I could write all day today and still I wouldn’t be done emptying this brain of mine. Where’s [...]
By the time I arrived at Saint Ignatius Catholic School at the start of my fifth grade year, I’d already been to three other Elementary Schools. I’d become accustomed to being the new kid and had already developed habits that would stay with me well into my adult years. I’d learned to blend in, to sit quietly, do my work, never raise my hand and [...]
I don’t contribute regularly to SOC Sundays even though I enjoy telling myself that I will remember to find out what the prompt is each week… and I haven’t added my two cents to the pot since Jana of Jana’s Thinking Place took over as the SOC host. Thanks Jana One of the things I enjoy most about stream of conciousness writing is the opportunity to intentionally [...]
Stream Of Conciousness Sundays is a five minute free writing exercise hosted by Fadra of All Things Fadra Today’s Writing Prompt: Do you have a secret blogging life? Are you connected to your “real life” friends and family through social media? How does that affect your writing? I suppose on could say that I have a secret blogging life. Not because I’ve chosen to keep it as [...]
Stream Of Conciousness Sundays is a five minute free writing exercise hosted by Fadra of All Things Fadra Today’s Writing Prompt: What happens when you are reminded of your teen years? Happy? Jealous? Feelings of bitterness or regret? Perhaps I have such a low tolerance level when it comes to thick headed, numskull, teenage dimwits is because I lived inside of one of the dimmest bulbs [...]
Today’s Writing Prompt: What are the things in your life right now that you just don’t want to do? I don’t want to walk the dog three times a day. Sometimes I wish I could just open the door and say, “Go handle your business, Kid.” I know the fresh air and exercise is good for both of us, and I certainly don’t want him [...]
Go Have you ever noticed how hard it is not to smile when someone is having a good, hearty laugh? Your lips will automatically curl right up into a smile and you can’t stop them. Even when you don’t think it’s funny, you smile anyway. If the laughter goes on long enough you’ll laugh too. Love could learn a few things from laughter because sometimes [...]
Five Minute Friday writing prompt is courtesy of Lisa-Jo Five Minutes | No Editing | Writing Prompt: Empty Empty is a process. It’s a progression from empty to full then emptied again only to be filled again. Daily, I must empty, in order to be filled. The half full, half empty optimist, pessimist analogy is true according to the world’s standards. But it doesn’t work [...]
5 Minutes| No Editing| Writing Prompt: Ache Go I have come to understand a few more things lately. I believe that’s a good thing. After all, the Bible does say, “In all thy getting, get understanding.” Forgiveness is the thing I understand, today. You see it’s rather easy for me to forgive you, her, him and them. When it comes to me, the task becomes [...]
When I’m writing, I enter a whole other dimension. I know it sounds goofy but that’s the only way I can describe it. It’s like I’m in a zone all by myself with pen and paper or keyboard and fingers and it feels good. I rarely know what’s coming unless I stick to an outline which is difficult for me because I find it [...]
NaBloPoMo Nov 7 Prompt: Making family time is important. How do you balance your children, relationship and work life? I can answer that question in two words: Just Barely. Since this is a prompt for today’s post. I suppose two words and a picture just wouldn’t do. I’ve never really given it a lot of thought. I step out on faith and just do what needs [...]