Tag: Blog Postings
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“Mirror ,Mirror, On the Wall!”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Mirror, Mirror, On the Wall.” Think of your blog as a mirror: what does it reveal? Consider your blog name, theme choice, design, and bio post. What does every element tell you about yourself? Nomadic Traveler, speaking to his magic mirror, Mirror, mirror, on the wall, do I have…
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“Silence”
Writing 201 Poetry/ Day 1: Screen, Haiku, Alliteration There’s a 100% chance you’re currently looking at the comforting, addictive, inescapable glow of a screen. Screens are everywhere in our lives, not in the least when we read, write and blog. Today, write a poem about or against, in homage to the screens in your life.…
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“Flangipropt and Whatchamacallit”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Flangiprop!.” Invent a definition for the word “Flangipropt,” then use the word in a post. The invention of words is something my mother did not allow in her home. My sister and I challenged this rule from time to time using the word, “Whatchamacallit.” As a child, I…
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“Ode To A Playground”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Ode to a Playground.” A place from your past or childhood, one that you’re fond of, is destroyed. Write it a memorial. You have served me very well for two years. I climbed, swung and slid on my playground set, and now my parents have decided to move…
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“Immortalized in a Hologram”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Immortalized in Stone.” Your personal sculptor is carving a person, thing or event from the last year of your life. What’s the statue of and what makes it so significant? At 82 years of age, I was in Patagonia South America, blogging about my travels and photographing…
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“Out Of Reach”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Out of Reach.” Write about the one X that got away — a person, an experience, a place you wanted to visit. How much would you change about your life to have it within reach again? For several years, I dreamed of seeing her. When the opportunity…
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“Night and Day”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Night and Day.” Have you ever had an experience that was incredible the first time, but terrible the second time around? Or vice versa? What made it different the second time? Night and Day experiences are measured by time. When Six Flags over Mid-America opened April 10,…
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A Storybook Day
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “A Storybook Day.” You have to spend one day as or with your favorite fictional character. Which one would it be and what would you do? My storybook day began before sunrise when I decided to ride my bicycle to the park to take some morning photos of…
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“Home Turf”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Home Turf.” Name five things in your house that make it a home. The foundation for a house is love while also enjoying where you live, and who you share your space with to make it a home. Within the category of love includes family, hopes, and…
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“I’ve Become My Parents”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “I’ve become My Parents.” Do you ever find yourself doing something your parents used to do when you were a kid, despite the fact you hated it back then? Early on as a child, I understood my parents were hard disciplinarians, like most of the parents in my…
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“Take Me To the Moon”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Take Me to the Moon.” How far would you go for someone you love? How far would you want someone else to go for you? When I read the prompt, “Take Me to the Moon,” I immediately thought of the song, sung by Frank Sinatra. The question, asked,…
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“Mountaintops and Valley”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Mountaintops and Valleys.” Describe a time when you quickly switched from feeling at the top of the world to sinking all the way down (or vice versa). Did you learn anything about yourself in the process? The yearly July, fourth, five-kilometer fun run and walk is held…
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“From The Top”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “From the Top.” If you had the chance to be reborn, would you choose to return as your present self, or would opt for a fresh start? Tell us about what motivates your choice. I would never change my life to be reborn because, the culmination and…
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“Phobia, Shmobia”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Phobia, Shmobia.” Fears evolve over time. What is one fear you’ve conquered? During the holiday season, at the age of five. I watched the “Wizard of Oz” movie and after viewing the wicked witch and those flying monkeys. I was terrified of going into the basement of…
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“The Fun Platform”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “The Fun Platform.” If you were the new leader of your country and had the chance to transform something that’s currently an annoyance (or worse) into a very fun activity, what would it be? How would you go about the change, and why would you choose that…
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“Daily Ritual”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Daily Ritual.” Think about your day. Select one of your daily rituals and explain it to us: why do you do what you do? How did you come to adopt this ritual? What happens on days when you can’t perform it? I have a daily ritual routine…
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“Handwritten”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Handwritten.” When was the last time you wrote something by hand? What was it? Over the past year, I became a letter writer and I recently wrote my niece a letter acknowledging and celebrating her recent graduation and her college start. However, I wrote the letter using…
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Worlds Colliding
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Worlds Colliding.” Take two main characters from two different books (either fiction or nonfiction) and introduce them to, or have them meet, each other. What would happen next? I believe the Saturday morning television worlds of “H & R Puff N Stuff” colliding with the family comedy…
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“Retrospective Funny”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Retrospectively Funny.” Tell us about a situation that was not funny at all while it was happening, but that you now laugh about whenever you remember it. My neighbor and I were taking a morning walk with our dogs when we witnessed an auto accident between two…
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“ The Mature and the Rested”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “The Young and the Rested.” When was the last time you felt truly rejuvenated and energized? What made you feel that way? My rejuvenation begins upon my return home from an exhilarating heart beating cardio bike ride or walk. Once the front door seal is broken, the fresh…
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“Forward Drive”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Forward Drive.” What is the one thing that drives you to wake up in the morning and do whatever it is you do? Is it writing, family, friends, or something else entirely? Forward March, is the way I feel every morning when my eyes open, I’m breathing,…
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“Inside the Bubble”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Inside the Bubble.” A contagious disease requires you to be put into quarantine for a whole month (don’t worry, you get well by the time you’re free to go!). How would you spend your time in isolation? To live a month in quarantine for some people could…
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“My #1 Song at Birth”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Your Number One.” What was the #1 song when you were born? (not sure? you can find out here.) Write about how the song relates (or not!) to your personality. This prompt excites me as a lover of music of all genre’s excluding most older country music.…
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“Golden Age”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Golden Age.” If you had to live forever as either a child, an adolescent, or an adult, which would you choose — and why? If I had to choose between being a child, adolescent or adult for the rest of my life, my choice hands down is…
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“Decisions or Gut Instinct” (A couples Weekend Short Story)
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Decisions, Decisions.” How are you more likely to make an important decision — by reasoning through it, or by going with your gut? All critical decisions require reasonable contemplation, however, “gut instincts” requiring little thought or reasoning, and is some times exciting and adventurous. Most gut instinct…
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“Forever Young”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Forever Young.” If there were a real Fountain of Youth, would you drink the water? The last time I drank from the fountain of youth, I was scolded severely, by my parents and the priest who made me go to confession. I know there is no fountain…
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“Missing Sequels”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Missing Sequels.” If you could create a sequel to one favorite (standalone) movie, which would it be? How would it build on the original? I would love to have the motion picture movie Grand Torino sequel to be a romance. Retired auto worker and Korean War veteran…
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“Middle Seat”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Middle Seat.” It turns out that your neighbor on the plane/bus/train (or the person sitting at the next table at the coffee shop) is a very, very chatty tourist. Do you try to switch seats, go for a non-committal brief small talk, or make this person your…
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“Take a Chance on Me”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Take a Chance on Me.” What’s the biggest chance you ever took? Did it work out? Do tell! My journey has reflected a by the book disciplinarian lifestyle. I have received technical and detailed training during my previous careers, along with the accompanying practicals to test what I’ve…
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“Only Sixteen”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Only Sixteen.” Tell us all about the person you were when you were sixteen. If you haven’t yet hit sixteen, tell us about the person you want to be at sixteen. Oh yes, to recall the dreaded year of being sixteen. Well, this was the year before…
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“No, Thank You”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “No, Thank You.” If you could permanently ban a word from general usage, which one would it be? Why? In honor of my mother, my English teachers during my elementary, middle, and high school years, I would permanently banned the word “ain’t.” The word “ain’t” was the…
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“Que Sera Sera”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Que Sera Sera.” Do you believe in fate or do you believe you can control your destiny? Living fifty years upon this planet and experiencing several life or death circumstances, I understand, appreciate and believe in fate. Here today gone tomorrow, live each day as it was…
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“That Stings”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “That Stings!.” Franz Kafka said, “we ought to read only books that bite and sting us.” What’s the last thing you read that bit and stung you? Earlier this year I read a book titled Ruby, and I just could not stop until I finished. The author Cynthia…
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“Today Was a Good Day”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Today Was a Good Day.” In a Mesh gallery, show us what makes you happy. Share your ideal day, recount a memorable day in the past, or share your favorite things. Every day for me is a “good day,” when I wake with my heart pumping, and eyes…
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“Red Pill, Blue Pill”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Red Pill, Blue Pill.” If you could get all the nutrition you needed in a day with a pill — no worrying about what to eat, no food preparation — would you do it? Three years ago I would have taken either red or blue pill, however, when…
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“Diversity”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “West End Girls.” Every city and town contain people of different classes: rich, poor, and somewhere in between. What’s it like where you live? If it’s difficult for you to discern and describe the different types of classes in your locale, describe what it was like where…
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“Nothing But A Good Time”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Nothin’ But A Good Time.” Imagine that tomorrow, all of your duties and obligations evaporate for the day. You get the day all to yourself, to do anything you please. What types of fun activities would make your day? Everyday for me is devoid of obligations and duties…
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“Helpless”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Helpless.” Helplessness: that dull, sick feeling of not being the one at the reins. When did you last feel like that –- and what did you do about it? On a plane trip some years ago, I was aboard a flight from Chicago to Washington Dulles International…
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“Community Service”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Community Service.” Your entire community — however, you define that; your hometown, your neighborhood, your family, your colleagues — is guaranteed to read your blog tomorrow. Write the post you’d like them all to see. I understand this daily prompt is to solicit my response to explain…
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“I pledge Allegiance”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “I Pledge Allegiance.” Are you patriotic? What does patriotic mean to you? The word “patriotic” sends my thoughts to a time during my childhood where the foundation to understand and appreciate the words’ pledge, oath, honor, and being patriotic were developed. My education and understanding of these…
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“Breakdown”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Breakdown.” Tell us about a habit you’d like to break. Is there any way it can play a positive role in your life? My afternoon nap was once a daily routine when I was a very young child, and they continued when I began kindergarten, classes. I…
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“Blogging, Writing and Authors”
Yesterday, I began my attendance of The Key West Florida Mystery Writers Conference. I have enjoyed the various speakers who have provided incredible information on writing, illustrating, publishing traditionally, independently and the use of Social Media. Presenter, Laurence O’Bryan provided detailed information on the use of Social Medial as an author. I will provide more information…
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“Break The Silence”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Break the Silence.” When was the last time you really wanted (or needed) to say something, but kept quiet? Write a post about what you should’ve said. As I age, I have learned to keep my opinions, personal thoughts, and most importantly keep my mouth closed to…
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“Sweeping Motions”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Sweeping Motions.” What’s messier right now — your bedroom or you computer’s desktop (or your favorite device’s home screen)? Tell us how and why it got to that state. My obsessive compulsion overwhelmed me to begin sweeping, mopping, and cleaning my entire home before leaving on vacation.…
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“Delayed Contact”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Delayed Contact.” How would you get along with your sibling(s), parent(s), or any other person you’ve known for a long time — if you only met them for the first time today? My favorite family quote is, “you can choose your friends. However, your blood family is…
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The History of Language
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “History of Language.” Write a piece of fiction describing the incident that gave rise to the phrase, “third time’s the charm.” The history of language and words has influence millions, yet the evolution of words has a lot to be considered. The use of words and its…
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Fountain Me; “Three Coins in a Fountain”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Three Coins in the Fountain.” Have you ever tossed a coin or two into a fountain and made a wish? Did it come true? I have tossed my fair share of coins into fountains around the world, and none of my wishes come true. The next time I…
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“Obstacle Course”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Obstacle Course.” Think about what you wanted to accomplish last week. Did you? What are the things that hold you back from doing everything you’d like to do? Last week’s agenda was completed, and I was able to accomplish my writing assignments and arrive safely after some…
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Beneath Your Feet
In response to The Daily Post’s weekly photo challenge: “Beneath Your Feet.” Experiment with your angle: stand as you snap your picture or get close to the floor. You don’t need to include your feet, as I’ve done in the photo above. Consider all kinds of settings and surfaces, from interesting textures and patterns to sidewalk…
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“Bedtime Stories”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Bedtime Stories.” What was your favorite book as a child? Did it influence the person you are now? Dr. Suesuss ABC’s, Cat in the Hat, Fox in Socks’, Hop on Pop, One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish, Green Eggs and Ham, Curious George, and Dick…
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Through the Window
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Through the Window.” Go to the nearest window. Look out for a full minute. Write about what you saw. Looking through a window onto a bright sunny day, I spy with my eye, something green, something brown, something white, and something red. My view brings forth a…
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From You to You
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “From You to You.” Write a letter to your 14-year-old self. Tomorrow, write a letter to yourself in 20 years. I could not write a letter to myself telling me what I should prepare for because my past has allowed me to arrive at this time of my life…
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“Proud, CampNaNoWriMo Winner”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Proud.” When was the last time someone told you they were proud of you? On July 31, 2015, I completed my participation in the month-long Camp National Novel Writing Month “aka CampNaNoWriMo” I finished my first short novel, and the experience was enjoyable. When I validated my…
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“Lucky Star”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Lucky Star.” My three wishes are similar to my prayers. 1) I wish for great health for me as well for my family and friends. 2) I wish for a successful career as a writer, photographer, and painter. 3) I wish for the world to be more…
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“Dictionary Shmictionary”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Dictionary, Shmictionary.” Time to confess: tell us about a time when you used a word whose meaning you didn’t actually know (or were very wrong about, in retrospect). Every time I’ve discovered a misspelled word, or use a word out of context, I sometimes recall my six-grade…
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“Game of Groans”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Game of Groans.” Think about an object, an activity, or a cultural phenomenon you really don’t like. Now write a post (tongue in cheek or not — your call!) about why it’s the best thing ever. It is the middle of summer, and two weeks after the…
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“________ is the new _______”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “______ is the new ______.” Click over to your favorite blog, and pick out the 4th and 14th words (that aren’t “the” or “an”). Drop them into this phrase: Before I completely read the daily prompt, my thoughts immediately were of the Netflix original show called, “Orange is the…
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“Simply the Best and Worst of Humanity”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Simply the Best.” NASA is building a new Voyager spacecraft that will carry the best of modern human culture. What belongs onboard? The following link provides information about the current Voyager 1 & 2 interstellar mission carrying a data time capsule. It has been over twenty-five years since…
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“Fourth Wall”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Fourth Wall.” You get to spend a day inside your favorite movie. Tell us which one it is — and what happens to you while you’re there. A couple of days ago, I wrote a response to the daily prompt, “you’re a winner,” where I promised to…
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“Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This),”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This).” What is the best dream you’ve ever had? Recount it for us in all its ethereal glory. If no dream stands out in your memory, recount your worst nightmare. Leave no frightening detail out. Dreams, dreams, dreams, whether good, bad or nightmarish.…
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“You’er a Winner”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “You’re a Winner!.” You’ve just won $1 billion dollars in the local lottery. You do not have to pay tax on your winnings. How will you spend the money? Everyone dreams of winning the lottery of any amount, yet, winning this enormous sum of money, most lotteries…
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“Should have, Would have, Could have,”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Shoulda Woulda Coulda.” Life is filled with daily moments based on should have, would have, and could haves. Mine was because of the heavy rains earlier this morning. I could not take my daily 2 or 3-mile walk so when a break in the rains came, I…
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“Well, I Never”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Well, I Never….” Tell us about something you’ve done that you would advise a friend never to do. The Well, I will never do again moments in life usually involve the combination of the following list. Alcohol consumption, the lack of thought, the failure to properly prepare…
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“The Perfect Game, A Short Story”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “The Perfect Game.” You’re set to play poker (or Scrabble or something else . . .) with a group of four. Write a story set during this game. Or, describe the ideal match: the players, the relationships — and the hidden rivalries. I played golf for five years without…
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“Sunset Bicycle Ride, Dead Insects & Some Photos”
“Sunset Bicycle Ride, Dead Insects & Some Photos” I was enjoying a beautiful warm summer evening viewing the sun settling in behind the trees when I found the urge to take an evening bicycle ride. Normally I do not ride in the evenings due to a lot of insects occupying the bike trail. This tidbit…
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“Passions”
I recently visited and tour Key West Florida and attended events at The Studios of Key West a local art gallery with studios for the artists who live in town. I was truly impressed with every artist as they exhibited and expressed their passions while describing their particular craft or finished work. My interactions inspired my…
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“Always Something There to Remind Me”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Always Something There to Remind Me.” A song comes on the radio and instantly, you’re transported to a different time and place. Which song(s) bring back memories for you and why? Be sure to mention the song, and describe the memory it evokes. Lately, I have heard the…
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“Brilliant Disguise”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Brilliant Disguise.” Tell us about a time when someone had you completely fooled, where the wool was pulled right over your eyes, and you got hoodwinked, but good. Was it a humorous experience or one you’d rather forget? What was the outcome? Many times in my community…
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“Finite Creatures”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Finite Creatures.” At what age did you realize you were not immortal? How did you react to that discovery? I was forty years old and with many years of military and law enforcement training, and I believed there was anything I could not accomplish. However, after putting…
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“The Heat is On”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “The Heat is On.” Do you thrive under pressure or crumble at the thought of it? Does your best stuff surface as the deadline approaches or do you need to iterate, a day after day to achieve something you’re proud of? Tell us how you work best. Training…
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“Looking Out My Back Door”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Lookin’ Out My Back Door.” Look out your back window or door — describe what you see, as if you were trying to convey the scene to someone from another country or planet. In the afternoon, my back window or lanai provides views of torrential rains. These daily…
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“Grand Slam”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Grand Slam.” In your own life, what would be the equivalent of a walk-off home run? (For the baseball-averse, that’s a last-minute, back-against-the-wall play that guarantees a dramatic victory.) I never dreamed of the “Grand Slam,” but, my dreams were of outdoor activities. Like, motorcycles and hiking…
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“Dear Mom”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Dear Mom.” Write a letter to your mom. Tell her something you’ve always wanted to say, but haven’t been able to. My mother died several years ago, but, yet I have two sisters and several aunts who have taken up the mantel of “Mother.” They checked in…
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“Well, I Never”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Well, I Never….” Tell us about something you’ve done that you would advise a friend never to do. I spent some time narrowing down my list to the night I jumped out of a college dorm window. I raced several friends down my dorm stair-well to be…
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“Practice Makes Perfect?”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Practice Makes Perfect?.” Tell us about a talent you would love to have… but don’t. I have pondered a response to this prompt most of the day and it has completely perplexed me. I’m not being pretentious, but I have mastered many talents and I cannot think…
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“Honorific”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Honorific.” If you could pick one person to be commemorated on a day dedicated to him/her alone, who would you choose? The word honorific is applied to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr birthday who has a US Federal holiday in his honor along with the Dr. Martin…
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“Born to Be With You”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Born to Be With You.” Got a soul-mate and/or a best friend? What is it about that person that you love best? Describe them in great detail — leave no important quality out. The word “friend” is defined and describes a closeness of shared knowledge, a person attached…
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“Memory on the Menu”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Memory on the Menu.” Which good memories are better — the recent and vivid ones, or those that time has covered in a sweet haze? All memories whether recent, vivid or those covered in a sweet haze are good memories if you can recall them. As life passes…
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“Futures Past”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Futures Past.” As a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up? How close or far are you from that vision? As a very young child I watched a lot of cowboy movies and I often dreamed about riding a horse through small towns…
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“Revisionist History”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Revisionist History.” Go back in time to an event you think could have played out differently for you. Let alternate history have its moment: tell us what could, would or should have happened? Where or when in time would I go to achieve an alternative history of…
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“Don’t You Forget About Me”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Don’t You Forget About Me.” Imagine yourself at the end of your life. What sort of legacy will you leave? Describe the lasting effect you want to have on the world, after you’re gone. Another end of life prompt to consider how I see myself approaching death and…
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“Thoughts”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “S/he Said.” Pause whatever you’re doing, and ask the person nearest you what they’re thinking about (call someone if you have to). Write a post based on it. I was seated with a friend when I read this prompt, and I immediately asked her what she was…
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“Familial Feast”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Familial Feasts.” Many countries celebrate Father’s Day and Mother’s Day. If you could dedicate a holiday to a more distant relative, who would it be — and why? Personally each family should celebrate their ancestors in the form of “Ancestors Day.” I believe a national ancestors holiday…
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Photo101: Day Twelve: Architecture & Monochrome
From geometric patterns on skyscrapers to the ironwork on historical buildings, there are many opportunities to capture the beauty and complexity of architecture. The following photos I used a mono chrome filter to achieve the color changes.
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“Early Bird & Vivid Weekly Challenges”
In response to The Daily Post’s weekly photo challenge for June 5th 2015: Early Bird & “Vivid.” The early bird vivid colors of a sunrise and one sunset. Vivid The Daily Post Photo Weekly Challenge for June 5, 2015 Early bird The Daily Post Photo Weekly Challenge for April 17, 2015
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“Advantage of Foresight”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Advantage of Foresight.” You’ve been granted the power to predict the future! The catch — each time you use your power, it costs you one day (as in, you’ll live one day less). How would you use this power, it at all? Being granted powers to predict…
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“Going Obsolete”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Going Obsolete.” Of all the technologies that have gone extinct in your lifetime, which one do you miss the most? There are a lot of technologies that have gone extinct in my lifetime, however, there are none from my past I miss. One of the earliest technologies…
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“The Kindness of a Stranger & Honoring a Bet”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “The Kindness of Strangers.” When was the last time a stranger did something particularly kind, generous, or selfless for you? Tell us what happened! Many times as I commute to work, I, like so many other commuters, eye contact is avoided and never made. Seated across from me…
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“In the Summertime”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “In the Summertime.” If it’s autumn or winter where you live, what are you most looking forward to doing next summer? If it’s spring or summer where you are, what has been the highlight of the season so far for you? It is summer time in Southwest…
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” Generation XYZ”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Generation XYZ.” Think about the generation immediately younger or older than you. What do you understand least about them — and what can you learn from them? The generation ahead of me is considered the baby boomer, and I consider myself the tail end of the baby…
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“Muse”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Muse.” What subject keeps you coming back? This week, show us your muse. Photographing sunrises and sunsets in Key West Florida is my muse, along with the writers an especially an exceptional painter Pam Hobbs who has open my eyes to the creative arts community of Key West.…
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“Celebrate Good Times”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Celebrate Good Times.” You receive some wonderful, improbable, hoped-for good news. How do you celebrate? Celebrating good times is a very useful prompt because today is my birthday, and I’m celebrating on the wonderfully warm island in Key West Florida. Birthdays are universally celebrated identifying the day,…
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“Love Patches”
Love Patches Friendships form the foundation allowing love to grow sturdy and strong. Love is the thread binding the patches of memories spent, during a lifetime. Love is the warm quilt, patched together, covering two people with memories of their lives and their love. M.J. Leake
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“The Golden Time of Day”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “The Golden Hour.” 6:00 AM: the best hour of the day, or too close to your 3:00 AM bedtime? The Golden Hour is essentially any time of day when there is a peacefulness and causing you to reflect on the day before or the day ahead. Whenever,…
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Day Thirteen: Moment & Motion
Our lives are made up of big events and tiny moments. Ultimately, life is fleeting, and oftentimes it’s these small moments, this motion, that we love to document. Capturing the movement of water is fairly easy when it is the rainy season in Southwest Florida. Photographing the moment of rains impact with the lake and…
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“Mix Tape MasterPiece”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Mix Tape Masterpiece.” You make a new friend. Make them a mix tape (or playlist, for the younger folks) that tells them who you are through song. At my age, I’m recall the mix tap vividly, as I recorded music from the radio, and since the unavailability…
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“Snapshot Stories”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Snapshot Stories.” Open the first photo album you can find — real or virtual, your call — and stop at the first picture of yourself you see there . Tell us the story of that photo. With hundreds of photos taken over the years from my cross…
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“Toy Story”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Toy Story.” What was your favorite plaything as a child? Do you see any connection between your life now, and your favorite childhood toy? Long before famous automobile video games like Grand Theft Auto, Formula 1 Racing, and The Need for Speed, my memory easily recalls…
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“All About Me”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “All About Me.” Explain why you chose your blog’s title and what it means to you. The journey and metamorphosis of my blog title from its beginnings as “Retirement Lifestyle, ” which was to document the incredible life change and challenges adjusting to retirement. Although, I researched,…
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Day Eleven: A Pop of Color
The colors in our photographs are evocative and rouse emotions within us. Color can elevate a mundane image into something intriguing and meaningful, and can tell a particular story within the frame. This photo displays the striking contrast of a pool and the surrounding vegetation. The pools cool color provides the refreshing emotion of a…
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“Weekly Photo Challenge”
“Roy G. Biv” is an acronym made of the first letters of the seven colors of the rainbow, to help you remember: Red. Orange. Yellow. Green. Blue. Indigo. Violet. It’s also your photo challenge theme for this week!* Capturing all of these colors is unique in itself and I believe I was lucky enough to…
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“Fifteen Credits: Never Stop Learning”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Fifteen Credits.” If you’re in school, are you enjoying your classes? If you’re out of school, what do you miss about it — or are you glad those days are over? I associate the Fifteen credits prompt with my college years and immediately I begin to recall…
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Photo101; Day Ten: Mystery & Lighting Effects: “Silhouette”
In response to The Daily Post’s weekly photo challenge: “Silhouette.” Day Ten: Mystery & Lighting Effects. I share an image that creates a sense of mystery. I manipulated the sunset light to create a particular effect to cast shadows and highlights to create a moody image. Photography 101: The Quality of Light Photo101 Day Ten, Mystery…
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“Hear No Evil”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Hear No Evil.” Tell us about a conversation you couldn’t help but overhear and wish you hadn’t. I usually use Southwest Airlines from the Washington DC area to fly west, and they’er connecting hub is located at Chicago’s Midway Airport and I always had at least an…
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“I’d Like to Thank My”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “I’d Like to Thank My fellow bloggers.” You are receiving an award –- either one that already exists, or a new one created just for you. What would the award be, why are you being honored, and what would you say in your acceptance speech? Over the…
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“Once Upon A Time”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Once Upon a Time.” Tell us about something that happened to you in real life last week — but write it in the style of a fairy tale. Once upon a time not long ago on an early warm morning, retired beach bums gathered along the Gulf of…
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“Two Right Feet”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Two Right Feet.” What are the things you need to do within 30 minutes of waking up to make sure your day gets off on the right foot? What happened the last time you didn’t do one of these things? I usually wake up between 5-6 am…
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Please to Meet You
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Pleased to Meet You.” Write a post in which the protagonists of two different books or movies meet for the first time. How do they react to each other? Do they get along? With this prompt I think of my two favorite actors Robert De Niro and Al…
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“Agree to Disagree”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Agree to Disagree.” Do you have a good friend or close relative with whom you disagree on a major issue (political, personal, cultural)? What’s the issue, and how do you make the relationship work? I have many family members, and lifelong friends for whom I disagree with…
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Celebrating Dr. Martin Luther King.
I have a dream! Dr. King’s birthday is January 15, however the federal holiday is celebrated today, Monday, January 19, 2015. Let’s all take a moment to reflect upon the great Civil Rights leader who fought for all Americans rights that transcends the world over. Let us apply his beliefs, ideas in all racial, religious,…
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“Oasis”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Oasis.” A sanctuary is a place you can escape to, to catch your breath and remember who you are. Write about the place you go to when everything is a bit too much. During the summer after working fourteen hour days, for five days straight, I look…
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“In Good Faith”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “In Good Faith.” Describe a memory or encounter in which you considered your faith, religion, spirituality — or lack of — for the first time. I guess like a lot of people, over the years, I have witnessed my fair share of horrors and miracles, humanity has…
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Getting Seasonal
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Getting Seasonal.” The holiday season: can’t get enough of it, or can’t wait for it all to be over already? Has your attitude toward the end-of-year holidays changed over the years? Christmas in America. There was a period in my childhood, I look upon Christmas as one…
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In Due Time
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “In Due Time.” What’s your next, most pressing deadline? Are you excited, stressed, or ambivalent about it? What’s the first thing you’d like to do once you’re done with it? Deadlines? I don’t have any deadlines. I have future aspirations and dreams, I desire to fulfill however,…
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The object of my dejection : The Powder Room
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “The Object of My Dejection.” Tell us about the object of your dejection — something you made, a masterpiece unfinished, or some sort of project that failed to meet your expectations. What did you learn from the experience? How would you do things differently next time? After 17…
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The Language of Things
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “The Language of Things.” You have to write a message to someone dear to you, telling that person how much he/she means to you. However — instead of words, you can only use 5-10 objects to convey your emotions. Which objects do you choose, and what do they…
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Unsung Heroes: Nomadic Adventures
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Unsung Heroes.” We all have our semi-secret, less-known personal favorites — a great B-side, an early work by an artist that later became famous, an obscure (but delicious) family recipe. Share one of your unsung heroes with us — how did you discover it? Why has it…
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Kicked the Bucket, the anti-list.
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Kick the Bucket.” What are the top items on your anti-bucket list — those things you never, ever want to do, places you never want to visit, books you never want to read, etc.? Well, before I retired and before the movie, “The Bucket List”, I had…
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Sweet little lies
In response to the Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Sweet Little Lies.” As kids, we’re told, time and again, that lying is wrong. Do you think that’s always true? In your book, are there any exceptions? Around the age of three or four, I was told to never tell a lie. I was baptized promising never…
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All or Nothing; Peaceful Easy Feeling.
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “All or Nothing?.” “Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.” — Sylvia Plath Which do you find more dangerous: wanting nothing, or wanting everything? I find neither wanting nothing or wanting everything is dangerous, as, I spent the…
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Feeling Fancy
In response to the Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Feeling Fancy.” You are given unlimited funds to plan one day full of any and all luxuries you normally can’t afford. Tell us about your extravagant day with as much detail as possible. For me to enjoy “Feeling fancy,” I would take in a day of luxury…
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The “Play”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “One at a Time.” In response to the Daily Post’s writing prompt: “One at a Time.” Today, writes a post on the topic of your choice — using only one-syllable words. With the lights dimmed in the gymnasium, fifty children of the Paulson Youth Center, all below the…
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Recently Acquired
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Recently Acquired.” What’s the most important (or interesting, or unexpected) thing about blogging you know today that you didn’t know a month ago? The most important, interesting and unexpected experience I discovered during the past month and including the past four months since I began this blogging…
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Present
The daily prompt from Stream of Consciousness, is “Present” There are many thing that come to mind with the word prompt “Present”. With the Christmas holiday approaching, I recognized the cheerful glee among many people at various social gatherings celebrating the holidays with family and friends. The present, is to reach out and talk…
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Gut Feeling
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Gut Feeling.” When’s the last time you followed your instinct despite not being sure it was the right thing to do? Did it end up being the right call? I believe women hold a distinctive adavantage with the ability to listen and follow their instinctive inside voice better…
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Wronged Objects
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Wronged Objects.” If your furniture, appliances, and other inanimate objects at home had feelings and emotions, to which item would you owe the biggest apology? For the past 19 years I have maintained a 1991 Ford Explorer, and as the ever frugal wise man I am, I…
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Waiting Room
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Waiting Room.” “Good things come to those who wait.” Do you agree? How long is it reasonable to wait for something you really want? I agree and believe good things come to those who wait, although after many years of life, it is also patience, that becomes…
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By hand
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “By Hand.” The moment I read the post asking what is the most significantly sentimental special gift I have ever received tcaused my mind to recall a Christmas gift my son gave me for Christmas. The gift was wrapped in white tissue paper, inside of a green…
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Trio #4
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Trio no. 4.” After twenty-nine years in the US military, a thirty-two year marriage to my sweet heart sitting next to me as we speed along interstate 90 through the great state of South Dakota, in our new 1997 Chevrolet Corvette, in mid July with the center…
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Oil, Meet Water
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Oil, Meet Water.” My twin boys are as distinctive as Oil and Water, however their love for one another is deeper than anyone can appreciate. I recognized early on their differences as they played in the backyard with one playing in the dirt pile and the other…
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By Heart
(Daily prompt) You’re asked to recite a poem (or song lyrics) from memory — what’s the first one that comes to mind? Does it have a special meaning, or is there another reason it has stayed, intact, in your mind? One of the first songs I can recall are the nursery rhymes, from before I found…
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Buyers Beware?
(Daily Prompt) The year is 2214, and your computer’s dusty hard drive has just resurfaced at an antique store. Write a note to the curious buyer explaining what he or she will find there. After two hundred years, my last computer hard drive was found locked inside a faded green Tupperware lock a seal container…
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Second-Hand Stories
Many years ago, when I just a young man in the US Army, I was placed on guard duty when I was issued a new device call night vision goggles. This was high-tech in the early eighties and I was happy to utilize the latest technology while on guard duty especially at night. Before the…
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Peace Oddity
If you could slow down an action that usually zooms by, or speed up an event that normally drags on, which would you choose, and why? There are so many life events, and chapters of my life I would want to extend just a little more time. My list would include my childhood, teenage years,…
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Trick or Treat
(Daily Prompt) It’s Halloween, and you just ran out of candy. If the neighborhood kids (or anyone else, really) were to truly scare you, what trick would they have to subject you to? I don’t believe anyone, especially children will be able to scare me, because I am the scary neighbor, who terrifies my neighborhood…
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Writing excitement!
Just over a year ago, I began reading books to pass the time as I sat on the beach, while occasionally looking out into the Gulf of Mexico in Southwest Florida. I found a sense of contentment in the books of adventure, science fiction, mystery and romance. I was profoundly grateful to be afforded the opportunity…
Expedition Nomadic Adventures 