Prompts

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The Old Stomping Grounds: Bar Culture

Weekly Photo Challenge: Culture

essays by paulaB2013-04-302013-04-30

Out And About, eh?

This weeks Weekly Writing Challenge asks to showcase your slang. It can be a display of regional pride, a contemplation on new words you’ve heard, but still don’t quite understand, or a practice in dialogue that mimics our regular speaking patterns. As an American who grew up in Canada, I know some slang. Often growing […]

Prompts by paulaB2013-04-172016-11-01

Blog-hoping as labyrinth

“I am in awe of the beautifully sincere and profoundly moving creative souls there are on our spinning ball. As I blog-hop along” I wrote that November 3, 2012 – I had been blogging one week. Just re-read this old post, and had to share. This is another reason why I blog, to remind myself […]

Gladful Tears

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Prompts by paulaB2013-03-132015-12-06

Did I tell you how divinely and utterly happy I am?

BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’s – said by Holly Golightly In the year after my separation in 2000 I lost weight, went shopping and became Holly Golightly; least in my mind. The grief diet is not a diet plan I would recommend, but I lost almost 50lbs – in those unhappy last years of my marriage I had […]

I’m Four Months Old

essays by paulaB2013-02-262017-12-20

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A Gnarl of Beauty

Wabi-sabi It finds beauty and harmony in what is simple, imperfect, modest, natural, and mysterious. [Rarasaur’s Prompt for the Promptless | Wabi-sabi] Whilst out hunting the lark, Tim and I happened upon such a thing of imperfect beauty. A gnarl. A lovely log, thrown off to the side with the other rejects. A gnarl is […]