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#997148

October 30, 2020 at 7:55am

{dropnote:"Meet my kitty-cats!"} ( Meow? ) Curious? Go Ahead {x-link:https://tinyurl.com/ybsprk3h}Take-A-Peek{/x-link} !!!!!!! PROMPT Write a headline you’d love to read in tomorrow’s newspaper. Everybody Making Less Than $50,000 Per Year Will Receive $10,000 Stimulus Deposit By Or Before November 2, 2020. Written By For: (Art by ) Welcome 2 my neighborhood in Blog C... [Read more]

#997040

October 28, 2020 at 11:44pm

{dropnote:"Meet my kitty-cats!"} ( Meow? ) Curious? Go Ahead {x-link:https://tinyurl.com/ybsprk3h}Take-A-Peek{/x-link} !!!!!!! PROMPT Write about Halloween and how Halloween has changed over the years. There's so much that I can say about this subject, and I can't say it all tonight, so I created a Sheet that I will be using in the future to say more. This is because there are some other stories... [Read more]

#996854

October 27, 2020 at 11:52pm

{dropnote:"Meet my kitty-cats!"} ( Meow? ) Curious? Go Ahead {x-link:https://tinyurl.com/ybsprk3h}Take-A-Peek{/x-link} !!!!!!! PROMPT Prompt: “Many tales are dying in the street before the house of my mind,” says {x-link:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherwood_Anderson}Sherwood Anderson{/x-link} in {x-link:https://tinyurl.com/y54qfq6m}The Triumph Of The Egg : A Book Of Impressions From American Life in Tales and Poems{/x-l... [Read more]

#996847

October 26, 2020 at 11:47pm

{dropnote:"Meet my kitty-cats!"} ( Meow? ) Curious? Go Ahead {x-link:https://tinyurl.com/ybsprk3h}Take-A-Peek{/x-link} !!!!!!! PROMPT In {x-link:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Barber_of_Seville}the Barber of Seville{/x-link} by {x-link:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gioachino_Rossini}Rossini{/x-link} , Rosina sings, “ (Una voce poco fa: Qui nel cor mi risuono) meaning, I heard a little voice just now; it has marked my he... [Read more]

#996586

October 23, 2020 at 11:54pm

{dropnote:"Meet my kitty-cats!"} ( Meow? ) Curious? Go Ahead {x-link:https://tinyurl.com/ybsprk3h}Take-A-Peek{/x-link} !!!!!!! PROMPT Write a ghost story where there’s more going on than it first appears. It was in the late winter or early spring of 1954 that we moved into the original house that went with the farm that we had just bought a few miles south of the {x-link:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ander... [Read more]

#996438

October 21, 2020 at 11:54pm

{dropnote:"Meet my kitty-cats!"} ( Meow? ) Curious? Go Ahead {x-link:https://tinyurl.com/ybsprk3h}Take-A-Peek{/x-link} !!!!!!! PROMPT Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. Use this line in your Blog entry today. They say that hindsight is 20/20...which brings me to the year 2020. In less than two more weeks, we will have lived through ten out of twelve months of what has turned out to be... [Read more]

#995969

October 15, 2020 at 11:59pm

{dropnote:"Meet my kitty-cats!"} ( Meow? ) Curious? Go Ahead {x-link:https://tinyurl.com/ybsprk3h}Take-A-Peek{/x-link} !!!!!!! PROMPT Would you rather write poems, short stories or news items? The best way to answer this question is: Yes, Yes, & Yes or should I say Yes, Yes, Yes, Etc. The reason for this is that I write in many different ways, and what I'd rather be doing depend... [Read more]

#995829

October 13, 2020 at 11:40pm

{dropnote:"Meet my kitty-cats!"} ( Meow? ) Curious? Go Ahead {x-link:https://tinyurl.com/ybsprk3h}Take-A-Peek{/x-link} !!!!!!! PROMPT “Art completes what nature cannot bring to a finish,” says {x-link:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristotle}Aristotle{/x-link} . “The artist gives us knowledge of nature’s unrealized end.” What do you think about this connection between art and nature? Something that ... [Read more]

#995747

October 12, 2020 at 11:51pm

{dropnote:"Meet my kitty-cats!"} ( Meow? ) Curious? Go Ahead {x-link:https://tinyurl.com/ybsprk3h}Take-A-Peek{/x-link} !!!!!!! PROMPT The Chinese-American author {x-link:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ha_Jin}Ha Jin{/x-link} , when asked about what most impressed him when he arrived at the USA, answered: “A chemical smell here. It was very alien, very overwhelming. Also, a lot of people wore perfume. I know a woman who came her... [Read more]

#995508

October 9, 2020 at 11:55pm

{dropnote:"Meet my kitty-cats!"} ( Meow? ) Curious? Go Ahead {x-link:https://tinyurl.com/ybsprk3h}Take-A-Peek{/x-link} !!!!!!! PROMPT There are 83 days left in this year. Have you accomplished the goals you set back on the 1st day of this year? Have you set new goals with the intent to accomplish them in the last stretch? Above, find a bitem-button to take you to this year's Dear Me letter. I ga... [Read more]

#994608

September 29, 2020 at 6:51pm

{dropnote:"Meet my kitty-cats!"} ( Meow? ) Curious? Go Ahead {x-link:https://tinyurl.com/ybsprk3h}Take-A-Peek{/x-link} !!!!!!! PROMPT In an interview, Norwegian author {x-link:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Ove_Knausg%C3%A5rd}Karl Ove Knausgaard{/x-link} , who wrote the six-volume autobiographical novel My Struggle and many others, said, “I don’t really pay much attention to the world. I’m not very present. I’m deta... [Read more]

#994519

September 28, 2020 at 11:18pm

{dropnote:"Meet my kitty-cats!"} ( Meow? ) Curious? Go Ahead {x-link:https://tinyurl.com/ybsprk3h}Take-A-Peek{/x-link} !!!!!!! PROMPT Now that we have only a couple of days to the "October NaNoWriMo Prep Challenge" [13+] by Brandiwyn🎶 (362) , are you going to write a novel this year? With or without doing the NaNo, what is your best approach to write a novel: vignettes, outlines, character developing or what? If yo... [Read more]

#994217

September 25, 2020 at 11:58pm

{dropnote:"Meet my kitty-cats!"} ( Meow? ) Curious? Go Ahead {x-link:https://tinyurl.com/ybsprk3h}Take-A-Peek{/x-link} !!!!!!! PROMPT https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/meet-the-actors-who-ve-played-iconic-horro... Which character would you be? Why? For some reason, the link in the prompt isn't going anywhere, so I made it into a TinyURL that will: https://tinyurl.com/y5hyabee Anyway, it's ... [Read more]

#993751

September 20, 2020 at 12:03am

{dropnote:"Meet my kitty-cats!"} ( Meow? ) Curious? Go Ahead {x-link:https://tinyurl.com/ybsprk3h}Take-A-Peek{/x-link} !!!!!!! PROMPT "Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable." ~ {x-link:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_J._Harris}Sydney J. Harris{/x-link} Discuss this quote in your blog today. It was the winter of 1978... [Read more]

#993608

September 17, 2020 at 11:53pm

{dropnote:"Meet my kitty-cats!"} ( Meow? ) Curious? Go Ahead {x-link:https://tinyurl.com/ybsprk3h}Take-A-Peek{/x-link} !!!!!!! PROMPT The ACM Awards were on last night. What are your views on country music? I've got nothing but good things to say about country music. It's good in its own right just because it's music with a heart that tells the stories of the lives of everyday people, but it has an extr... [Read more]

#993362

September 14, 2020 at 11:57pm

{dropnote:"Meet my kitty-cats!"} ( Meow? ) Curious? Go Ahead {x-link:https://tinyurl.com/ybsprk3h}Take-A-Peek{/x-link} !!!!!!! PROMPT {x-link:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Bradbury}Ray Bradbury{/x-link} advises in Zen in the Art of Writing, “You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.” If reality is so bad and destructive, which I agree that it can be at times, why are we seeking it under the guise o... [Read more]

#993209

September 12, 2020 at 11:26pm

{dropnote:"Meet my kitty-cats!"} ( Meow? ) Curious? Go Ahead {x-link:https://tinyurl.com/ybsprk3h}Take-A-Peek{/x-link} !!!!!!! PROMPT Write a story about an adventure on a shipwrecked island. When I was seven years old, my folks, Patty (Read how we met by going here: ), and I went to this drive-in theater that was located close to {x-link:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence,_Indiana}Lawrence{/x-link} on... [Read more]

#993025

September 11, 2020 at 11:56pm

{dropnote:"Meet my kitty-cats!"} ( Meow? ) Curious? Go Ahead {x-link:https://tinyurl.com/ybsprk3h}Take-A-Peek{/x-link} !!!!!!! PROMPT “sometimes when everything seems at its worst when all conspires and gnaws and the hours, days, weeks and years seem wasted – stretched there upon my bed in the dark looking upward at the ceiling I get what many will consider an obnoxious thought: it’s still nice to be myself" ― Ch... [Read more]

#992854

September 9, 2020 at 1:30pm

{dropnote:"Meet my kitty-cats!"} ( Meow? ) Curious? Go Ahead {x-link:https://tinyurl.com/ybsprk3h}Take-A-Peek{/x-link} !!!!!!! PROMPT {x-link:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_Roosevelt}Eleanor Roosevelt{/x-link} said, “Do one thing every day that scares you.” As best stories sometimes come out of their authors’ fears, what do you say for writing about one thing that scares you every day? For example, what scares y... [Read more]

#992208

September 2, 2020 at 11:59pm

{dropnote:"Meet my kitty-cats!"} ( Meow? ) Curious? Go Ahead {x-link:https://tinyurl.com/ybsprk3h}Take-A-Peek{/x-link} !!!!!!! PROMPT What was the best party you ever had or attended? I have hosted/attended so many meaningful parties that I have many favorites. On top of that, I'm nearing the deadline for this blog-entry, so what I'm going to do is -- whenever I'm writing about one of those sp... [Read more]

#991996

August 31, 2020 at 11:56pm

{dropnote:"Meet my kitty-cats!"} ( Meow? ) Curious? Go Ahead {x-link:https://tinyurl.com/ybsprk3h}Take-A-Peek{/x-link} !!!!!!! PROMPT Prompt “Anger points powerfully to the denial of rights, but the exercise of rights can’t live and thrive on anger. It lives and thrives on the dogged pursuit of justice.” Ursula K. Le Guin What do you think about anger or about the expression of it? We've seen a ... [Read more]

#991382

August 22, 2020 at 11:31pm

{dropnote:"Meet my kitty-cats!"} ( Meow? ) Curious? Go Ahead {x-link:https://tinyurl.com/ybsprk3h}Take-A-Peek{/x-link} !!!!!!! PROMPT In 30 Day we're doing a virtual blogging trip hopping from continent to continent. We just left Lesotho up in the mountains where at one time cannibalism was practiced. wondered what seasoning they would use for our bodies if they did seasonings The prompt is for you to decide what seasonin... [Read more]

#991194

August 19, 2020 at 11:34pm

{dropnote:"Meet my kitty-cats!"} ( Meow? ) Curious? Go Ahead {x-link:https://tinyurl.com/ybsprk3h}Take-A-Peek{/x-link} !!!!!!! PROMPT What is your favorite part of the morning? There is so much to love about the morning!!! I've just created a place to share a dozen morning songs. I plan on filling it in very soon between all of the other things I have going on. If I had to choose just one... [Read more]

#990908

August 15, 2020 at 11:57pm

{dropnote:"Meet my kitty-cats!"} ( Meow? ) Curious? Go Ahead {x-link:https://tinyurl.com/ybsprk3h}Take-A-Peek{/x-link} !!!!!!! PROMPT Typically, at this time people with children were rushing around getting school clothes, supplies, stocking dorm rooms. What are you doing instead to prepare your family with school beginning? Are your feeling you need to be regimental or more lax? If you don't have school age children ... [Read more]

#990300

August 8, 2020 at 11:37pm

{dropnote:"Meet my kitty-cats!"} ( Meow? ) Curious? Go Ahead {x-link:https://tinyurl.com/ybsprk3h}Take-A-Peek{/x-link} !!!!!!! PROMPT Oops I forgot to post the prompt last night.I had it already but got distracted with the storm that came through here. We've had quite a few thunderstorms lately. So here it is for tonight instead. This article is interesting. https://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/global-warming-and-hurricanes/ Do y... [Read more]