On The Corner of HODGE and PODGE

#963437

July 30, 2019 at 11:53pm

{dropnote:"Meet my kitty-cats!"} ( Meow? ) Curious? Go Ahead {x-link:https://tinyurl.com/ybsprk3h}Take-A-Peek{/x-link} !!!!!!! PROMPT What can be the result or results of trusting a wrong person with an important enough task or hiring a family member who didn’t know enough about the job? Have you ever had such an experience? This has definitely happened to me, and the best advice I can give if it happens to you... [Read more]

#963420

July 29, 2019 at 11:42pm

{dropnote:"Meet my kitty-cats!"} ( Meow? ) Curious? Go Ahead {x-link:https://tinyurl.com/ybsprk3h}Take-A-Peek{/x-link} !!!!!!! PROMPT What do you think of sidewalk cafés? How about writing a description, a story, or a poem about one such café that you have seen or visited? My favorite "sidewalk cafe" at this time is the one that will be operating through August at the Central Christian Church here in A... [Read more]

#963296

July 27, 2019 at 11:57pm

{dropnote:"Meet my kitty-cats!"} ( Meow? ) Curious? Go Ahead {x-link:https://tinyurl.com/ybsprk3h}Take-A-Peek{/x-link} !!!!!!! PROMPT What are your favorite quotes? I've been inspired to design a Sheet for collecting quotes. Go here to find it: Written By For: (Art by ) Welcome 2 my neighborhood in Blog City where I live On The Corner of HODGE ... [Read more]

#963027

July 22, 2019 at 11:55pm

{dropnote:"Meet my kitty-cats!"} ( Meow? ) Curious? Go Ahead {x-link:https://tinyurl.com/ybsprk3h}Take-A-Peek{/x-link} !!!!!!! PROMPT "Prompt There are two major pains in life. The pain of discipline and the pain of regret. The first weighs ounces, whereas the latter weighs tons." — {x-link:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Rohn}Jim Rohn{/x-link} Concerning any area of life, which one of the two pains are you bette... [Read more]

#962917

July 20, 2019 at 11:52pm

{dropnote:"Meet my kitty-cats!"} ( Meow? ) Curious? Go Ahead {x-link:https://tinyurl.com/ybsprk3h}Take-A-Peek{/x-link} !!!!!!! PROMPT Today, I was reading Sidewalk Oracles and one of the interesting exercises was to randomly flip open a book page and read a line. Any line doesn't matter just the one line. As your day goes on, how many things happen to you during the day that connect with that one line. So grab a book, any bo... [Read more]

#962694

July 15, 2019 at 11:55pm

{dropnote:"Meet my kitty-cats!"} ( Meow? ) Curious? Go Ahead {x-link:https://tinyurl.com/ybsprk3h}Take-A-Peek{/x-link} !!!!!!! PROMPT Hospitals have never been a favorite place for most. There is something unnatural about them, maybe their smell or the non-stop activity there. What do you feel when you step foot inside a hospital for any reason? That would depend on why I was there. For example, my feelings a... [Read more]

#961627

June 27, 2019 at 2:09pm

{dropnote:"Meet my kitty-cats!"} ( Meow? ) Curious? Go Ahead {x-link:https://tinyurl.com/ybsprk3h}Take-A-Peek{/x-link} !!!!!!! PROMPT What was the last book you read? The time right now is 2:03 on Thursday, June 27, 2019. Yesterday, I went to a non-food pantry at {x-link:https://www.andersonfirst.org/}Anderson First United Methodist Church{/x-link} where you can get things such as soap, shampoo, deodorant,... [Read more]

#961579

June 26, 2019 at 3:58pm

{dropnote:"Meet my kitty-cats!"} ( Meow? ) Curious? Go Ahead {x-link:https://tinyurl.com/ybsprk3h}Take-A-Peek{/x-link} !!!!!!! PROMPT "Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them." {x-link:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._A._Milne}A. A. Milne{/x-link} What are your thoughts about this? This can literally be talking about weeds and flowers -- and whether or not something is a weed or a flowe... [Read more]

#960969

June 17, 2019 at 11:56pm

{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 piece of advice your father or a father figure in your life ever gave you? Did his words and example have had an effect on your life? My dad always encouraged me to stay interested in learning and not to let anybody discourage me from this. Both he and my mom m... [Read more]

#960815

June 14, 2019 at 11:58pm

{dropnote:"Meet my kitty-cats!"} ( Meow? ) Curious? Go Ahead {x-link:https://tinyurl.com/ybsprk3h}Take-A-Peek{/x-link} !!!!!!! PROMPT Give us a taste of summer – either through a recipe, or a memory or story that expresses summer to you. Go here to find a blog-entry with a summer dreams theme: https://babybearbubbles.blogspot.com/2019/06/driving-my-minivan.html Written By For: (Art ... [Read more]

#960766

June 13, 2019 at 11:53pm

{dropnote:"Meet my kitty-cats!"} ( Meow? ) Curious? Go Ahead {x-link:https://tinyurl.com/ybsprk3h}Take-A-Peek{/x-link} !!!!!!! PROMPT How would you see the world through rose colored glasses? {embed:giphy:3o6ozEa2KCTTO1uqac} I already do!!! This isn't to say that I'm not aware that there are some very bad things going on. However, I like to look on the bright side; hope and pray for things... [Read more]

#960596

June 10, 2019 at 11:24pm

{dropnote:"Meet my kitty-cats!"} ( Meow? ) Curious? Go Ahead {x-link:https://tinyurl.com/ybsprk3h}Take-A-Peek{/x-link} !!!!!!! PROMPT What do you think clutters our lives, both in the physical and psychological senses? Have you ever noticed that it often happens that physical and mental clutter often end up doing a duet? What I mean by that is that having one kind of clutter sometimes has a way of resulting in another kind of ... [Read more]

#960425

June 8, 2019 at 11:57pm

{dropnote:"Meet my kitty-cats!"} ( Meow? ) Curious? Go Ahead {x-link:https://tinyurl.com/ybsprk3h}Take-A-Peek{/x-link} !!!!!!! PROMPT Creative Saturday begs a creation from you. Use these words: satirical, lingering, neutral, audacious, conversational and distracted. Have fun! satirical https://twitter.com/iamfunkhauser/status/1137025108495785984 lingering https://twitter.com/SkylarkArtist/status/8811752371... [Read more]

#960318

June 7, 2019 at 11:56pm

{dropnote:"Meet my kitty-cats!"} ( Meow? ) Curious? Go Ahead {x-link:https://tinyurl.com/ybsprk3h}Take-A-Peek{/x-link} !!!!!!! PROMPT She studied her face in the mirror and it shattered in a million fragments. Have fun with however you take this... This reminds me of somebody looking in a mirror and squeezing on her face and seeing what pops and/or squiggles out of her pores and even hitting the mirror. ... [Read more]

#960252

June 6, 2019 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 are your rules for courteous phone use? Etiquette {x-link:https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/etiquette}the conduct or procedure required by good breeding or prescribed by authority to be observed in social or official life{/x-link} {x-link:https://en.wi... [Read more]

#960248

June 6, 2019 at 12:00am

{dropnote:"Meet my kitty-cats!"} ( Meow? ) Curious? Go Ahead {x-link:https://tinyurl.com/ybsprk3h}Take-A-Peek{/x-link} !!!!!!! PROMPT Make a Gratitude List. There are some things in my life that haven't happened yet but I hope will happen soon (as in this month -- June 2019): These things are a kind of package deal that can be summed up as saying that I hope I get at least enough money to get out-of-debt a... [Read more]

#960101

June 3, 2019 at 11:33pm

{dropnote:"Meet my kitty-cats!"} ( Meow? ) Curious? Go Ahead {x-link:https://tinyurl.com/ybsprk3h}Take-A-Peek{/x-link} !!!!!!! PROMPT Although envy is one of the deadly sins, do you believe it may somehow hide a redeeming quality inside? Envy can either make someone resent one or more others for having something he/she doesn't have and, possibly, even do things to make life difficult for those at which t... [Read more]

#960025

June 1, 2019 at 11:54pm

{dropnote:"Meet my kitty-cats!"} ( Meow? ) Curious? Go Ahead {x-link:https://tinyurl.com/ybsprk3h}Take-A-Peek{/x-link} !!!!!!! PROMPT Creation Saturday --- A killer disease had reached epidemic proportions. Finally, the cure has been found — but it is even more terrifying than the disease itself. Have fun! Believe it or not, I recently recalled this one Popeye cartoon about his fight with a mosquito -- either P... [Read more]

#959924

May 30, 2019 at 10:47pm

{dropnote:"Meet my kitty-cats!"} ( Meow? ) Curious? Go Ahead {x-link:https://tinyurl.com/ybsprk3h}Take-A-Peek{/x-link} !!!!!!! PROMPT "Memories are forget-me-nots gathered along life's ways, pressed close to the heart in a perennial bouquet!" {x-link:https://www.chickensoup.com/book-story/51480/a-work-of-heart}Clara Smith Reber{/x-link} Write about your memories that mean the most to you. This is a ... [Read more]

#959855

May 29, 2019 at 11:49pm

{dropnote:"Meet my kitty-cats!"} ( Meow? ) Curious? Go Ahead {x-link:https://tinyurl.com/ybsprk3h}Take-A-Peek{/x-link} !!!!!!! PROMPT "Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August." Jennifer Han What are your thoughts about this quote? Yes, it's true that good and magical things happen during June, July, & August -- BUT they're not the ONLY months on the entire c... [Read more]

#959807

May 28, 2019 at 11:51pm

{dropnote:"Meet my kitty-cats!"} ( Meow? ) Curious? Go Ahead {x-link:https://tinyurl.com/ybsprk3h}Take-A-Peek{/x-link} !!!!!!! PROMPT Inaction Is inaction a form of action? What do you think of inaction or rather giving up? Can it sometimes work? Can anyone be blamed for inaction in real life or in history? Inaction -- in and of itself -- is neither good nor bad / right nor wrong. There are times when in... [Read more]

#959760

May 27, 2019 at 11:59pm

{dropnote:"Meet my kitty-cats!"} ( Meow? ) Curious? Go Ahead {x-link:https://tinyurl.com/ybsprk3h}Take-A-Peek{/x-link} !!!!!!! PROMPT Look at your hands. What do they mean to you? What is the meaning or emotion hiding in each line, blemish, wrinkle, scar, or the lack of those things if you have perfect hands? I'm 66 and still have nice-looking hands. They're soft hands, and the various lines are still ... [Read more]

#959625

May 25, 2019 at 11:51pm

{dropnote:"Meet my kitty-cats!"} ( Meow? ) Curious? Go Ahead {x-link:https://tinyurl.com/ybsprk3h}Take-A-Peek{/x-link} !!!!!!! PROMPT Pick a topic to discuss from this day in history on May 25th... or something that has happened in your world on May 25th. https://www.onthisday.com/events/may/25 On This Day... In 1967, John Lennon became the owner of a Psychedelic-Painted Rolls Royce. In 1973, George Harriso... [Read more]

#959472

May 22, 2019 at 11:23pm

{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 thing about social media? For starters, I'm going to include a link to where I'll be writing a story in another one of my blogs. If you're reading this on the same day that I'm writing this blog-entry (Wednesday, May 22, 2019), it won't be fi... [Read more]

#959421

May 21, 2019 at 11:51pm

{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/Albert_Einstein}Einstein{/x-link} said, “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.” Can you think of a few things about people that show stupidity? What about the universe’s stupidity? ... [Read more]