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Work and a Dog Pool
5Ws Wednesday I’ve got nothing today. The prompt today is a dud (so is the one tomorrow) and I have no alternative ideas. So, in the absence of something intellectual to discuss, I’ll simply pose the question, “What’s going on today?” I worked for the first part of the day. When I came back from… →
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Middle-aged Coaches
My husband and I were at the checkout counter at Dick’s Sporting Goods yesterday and I saw this sign on the wall behind the register: It got me thinking about the impact coaches have on young people. If done right, kids are going to grow up always remembering the coaches who had a positive impact… →
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Who Needs Advice?
What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever received? This was the prompt exactly a year ago and I answered it back then with something a tv mom told her daughter. “Don’t analyze it, just enjoy it.” I thought really hard about what other advice is good that I’ve received. But, I’m tired today. I’m… →
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Free To Be Me
Share a lesson you wish you had learned earlier in life. This is definitely a “if I knew then what I know now” kind of thing. Through the process of reading all of my old journals, I can clearly see lessons I’ve learned since scrawling those emotion filled words back when I was a teenager.… →
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Thinking for Myself
List the people you admire and look to for advice… I’ve written before about how I admire my husband and the advice he gives, simply because he knows me so well and loves me enough to care about what he tells me. However, aside from him, it’s hard to list people that I both admire… →
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The Listening Ability of Teenagers
What advice would you give to your teenage self? I have spent a great deal of time lately reflecting on this very topic. I yearn to go back and have a conversation with my teenage self. As I have been reading and sharing my journals from that time period, I see the girl I was… →
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Daily Prompt Response—Best Advice
What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever received? I never personally received this advice, but I kind of did. This advice came from a fictional t.v. mom on the show “Life Goes On” (told you I was a 90s kid). Her daughter Becca was over-analyzing some situation with her boyfriend or something else teen… →