Category: Writing Prompts

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…

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…

What have you been working on? I’ve been working on myself for about 59 years. It’s a marathon, not a sprint. I’m a mess!

What personality trait in people raises a red flag with you? In a previous life, I was a commercial banker. I would actively pursue a company and offer them bank accounts, lending facilities, treasury services, investments….well, you get the picture. The people who were proud of their business, their employees and tell you the story…

What daily habit do you do that improves your quality of life? Prayer. My mother prayed all the time, but I thought it was because she was a ministers wife. It was not. When I met the man I would marry, have children with and divorce, I was so sure of my world, as most…

What was the last thing you searched for online? Why were you looking for it? I always have questions. My whole life I have had questions. But when I was a kid, you had to go to the library with your questions if your parents didn’t have encyclopedia money. So now we have all of…

What’s your favorite time of day? When my children were very young, my favorite time of day was the end of the day. Not because the kids were going to bed, well it was that, but honestly, it was the bedtime routine. Baths, lotion, pajamas, stories, prayers and rocking them to sleep. It was the…

What do you love about where you live? My grandbaby is here. Pure and simple. She is the only one and probably won’t have any other. Where she goes, I go.

Create an emergency preparedness plan. Having grown up in Missouri, with a dad who was a kid from the projects of south St Louis in the 1950s and 60s and then joined the US Marine Corps, then was a St Louis County Police Officer, (before he quit running from God and answered the call to…

What is the most important thing to carry with you all the time? I really do try to carry into each and every day these things: love, joy, peace, patience, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self control. Some days, I may drop one of the traits. Traffic makes it really hard.