Category: Writing Prompts

  • Collections?

    Collections?

    Other than dust bunnies, my books are my collection.​

  • Productive? Me?

    Productive? Me?

    Honestly, outside of work, my most productive time is when I’m trying to avoid a larger and more stressful issue.

  • Growth

    Growth

    I learned that I was stronger than I thought. Tougher than I thought. I had to be, soon my 12 year old would be over 6 foot tall (eventually 6’4”) and I had to be strong and not back down. Soon my 9 year old would be telling me about a boy who didn’t know…

  • Shopping!

    Shopping!

    I used to think a shopping spree would take place at a fancy store, like. Niemann Marcus or Nordstroms. When I got older and had my babies, I used to think it was Target or a May Company Store, like Famous-Barr or Foleys before they all became Macys. Now I think I would like Costco…

  • Ooo The Gift of Failing

    Ooo The Gift of Failing

    How has a failure, or apparent failure, set you up for later success? I could list a lifetime of failures here and what happened after the fact. But all of them were because I didn’t heed wise counsel or I felt a check in my spirit not to go forward and I did and it…

  • Bittersweet Memories

    What were your parents doing at your age? I am a few weeks from 60. At the age I am now, my father made the decision to take early retirement to care for my mother. My mother had three strokes and the last one left her partially paralyzed and in a wheelchair. When left alone…

  • YES!

    Do you or your family make any special dishes for the holidays? Before my mother passed and my kids were younger, the holidays looked much different than they do today. My dad’s mother made the very best pumpkin pies. I have tinkered with the recipe she gave me, but they are not even close. The…

  • Oooo Pet Peeves!

    Name your top three pet peeves.

  • It’s more like BookS – plural

    What book are you reading right now? Right now, I am reading A Court Thorns And Roses by Sarah J Maas. I am also re-reading, The Prayer Of Jabez – Breaking Through To The Blessed Life by Bruce Wilkinson, and The Irish Cottage by Julie Gauvin. Sometimes I have more books going, sometimes just a…

  • Favorite Subject In School?

    What was your favorite subject in school? History. I love it. I love learning about ancient communities and their customs and culture. I love learning about our country when it belonged to no flag. I love studying the politics of the time, where faith was in their society, how they got new clothing, how education…