Prompt: 5 minutes "Stand Alone" Stand Alone Stand alone. On your own two feet. See what you can do without any others to stop you, to help you, to harm you, to interfere, to suggest other ways. What does your heart say? What is your heart saying to you? Stand alone. You already do stand
July 9, 2013 Prompt: 15 minutes: “supposed to” Supposed To She was supposed to get a lot accomplished today, piles of vacation mail littering the kitchen counter, dirty clothes on the laundry room floor, wilting calla lily plants screaming for water from their old pots, long leaves drooping. She turns the pots occasionally, angling them
Prompt Writing: 15 minutes: "Eight Weeks" Eight Weeks In eight weeks, I will have breast surgery behind me. For good. I hope. Know, I believe. (Ha - I meant “No, I believe,” but how much better is “Know, I believe!”) For GOOD, I tell you! Knock cancer cells on their butt! Excise them out and
Prompt writing: 20 min: "after the storm" GO! After the Storm After the storm, the clouds make way for a little light to peek through. Then a little more. The deep elephant gray morphs into a lighter ashen gray, then a bluish tint that gives the moving sky that cotton candy look. The wind still
Another off the cuff prompt writing: 35 minutes: "Forever" GO! Forever Forever is a long, long time. Decisions, choices, paths taken in an instant can affect - DO affect - your life forever. And I mean, FOREVER! "Mate selection," as someone called it recently. Now there's a choice that affects one's life tremendously. The little
I recently wrote an essay for a competition that I did not win, and so I will not get to go to Oakland, California to meet Anne Lamott and Kelly Corrigan next month after all. Nor will I receive a call from a senior editor at Random House/Ballantine. Or from the Executive Editor at O
