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Meeting Ralphie: My Crochet Tribute to “A Christmas Story”
I have to take a moment here to tell the coolest crochet story that I will ever get to tell. Now that Halloween is over, as is the custom in the United States, society has completely skipped over the next holiday, Thanksgiving, and gone into full on Christmas mode. I am a holiday purest and… →
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Reflecting on Past and Future: My Life in Three Years
If my life is close to what it is right now in three years, I will be happy. I actually just wrote about what my life has been like in the past three years. With that said, the next three years should hopefully be even better. Currently, I am at a point in my life… →
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Websites That Inspire Creativity and Support Mental Health
I honestly wasn’t going to respond to this prompt today because there’s really only two websites that I visit frequently, not including WordPress. Facebook is one of them, but there’s not anything particularly unique or exceptionally interesting about Facebook. The other website is one that I prefer to keep to myself. For many years I… →
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Middle Age Insights: Embracing the Present Over the Past
Absolutely not! The experiences I have had in my childhood, my teen years, and my 20s are not anything that makes me feel like I want to go back and relive any of it. There was a lull in my 30s where everything was o.k. But honestly, now that I have reached middle-aged status (hence… →
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Daily Response Prompt—Favorite Physical Exercise
What is your favorite form of physical exercise? I’m disappointed in the posts I have read that respond to this question! We are all adults and no one’s mind morphed into a 12 year old’s and said their favorite form of physical exercise is sex??? It’s like there’s not an immature person among us! I… →
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Daily Prompt Response—Alternative Career Path
What alternative career paths have you considered or are interested in? Really? This is the prompt I get today? Um…nearly 90% of my posts since the spring have been about my alternative career path. Of course, this random question generator couldn’t have known that and I am always happy to tell anyone who will listen… →
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Daily Prompt Response—Pride
What are you most proud of in your life? I like it when people are proud of me, but I have a hard time feeling proud of myself. Of course, I know I can be proud of other things. When I was a teacher, I was proud of the Battle of the Books team I… →
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Do kids today even know…
There are two sources of inspiration for this post, which honestly, I can easily turn into a series of posts because I keep coming across things that could fit. The first source is simply that I was a teacher and principal of an elementary/middle school for 19 years. The things that would come up in… →
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Daily Prompt Response—Work in Progress
What have you been working on? I’m a crafter, so I could answer this question by discussing the various knitting and crochet projects that I have been working on lately. But they’re not exciting me right now. In fact, I haven’t really worked on them much lately. I could say that I have been working… →