Connie's Corner (Book) https://www.Writing.Com/main/profile.php/blog/biddle.connie 30DBC Day 7: cummingsesque ▼︎ "Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experiences that reveal the human spirit." - e.e. cummings ​ This is a true insight from e.e. cummings. Once you believe in yourself, your judgment, your abiltiy, you won't hesitate to try new things and speak your own mind, give your own opinions on things. You will know you have value. You won't automatically believe every...[Read Full Post] Mon, 07 Sep 2026 13:44:44 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1123411 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1123411 30DBC Day 5 Debate: Writing Advice Which popular advice in the writing world do you disagree with and why? I try to follow "expert" advice and abide by the rules but like many things my plans often go awry. The one piece of advice I can never get used to is a set daily writing time. I have to be "in the mood" to write...except for this September blog. So far I have been able to keep to a certain time to show up here. Now, I have probably jinxe...[Read Full Post] Sat, 05 Sep 2026 10:08:42 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1122998 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1122998 30DBC Day 4: The Birth of Agriculture? ▼︎ Fun Fact: Ants began farming fungi in the Amazon rainforest 60 million years before humans ever started growing crops. Fungi happen to be one of my favorite things. I look for them all the time when I'm outside and love the fairy rings! I eat "store bought ones" in my stir fries, used to eat them in salads but found out raw might not be good for me. I have a very thick book (Mushrooms of the Gulf Coast S...[Read Full Post] Fri, 04 Sep 2026 11:12:30 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1122859 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1122859 30DBC prompt for Sept. 3: Day 3: To Err Is Human ▼︎ What was a big mistake you made, what did it cost you, and how did you solve the problem? In the early 2000 teens I volunteered at my local library branch. My husband had recently passed away and I was looking for distraction from my grief. I didn't realize that grief was something you had to live through, there was no distraction. Anyway, I volunteered, was background checked and showed up for my fir...[Read Full Post] Thu, 03 Sep 2026 10:03:37 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1122671 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1122671 30DBC Day 2: Off the Wagon What hobby or activity have you dropped, and do you think you'll pick it up again sometime? I have had many hobbies in my long life and still dawdle at some of them. The thing with hobbies is that they are always there to pick back up when needed, when bored, when looking for something to do or if someone (rarely) wants to know how. Knitting, crochet, macrame, latchhook, embroidery, sewing and others that I'm sure I have ...[Read Full Post] Wed, 02 Sep 2026 10:38:12 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1122497 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1122497 Day 1: The Ultimate Human Question ▼︎ What is the meaning of life to you? Sometime during August of this year I read Frankl's book about this very topic. I read about the horrors of the holocaust and his time spent in concentration camps and how hope and a goal can make all the difference to one's life...at least the part that stays alive. I can't say that "hope" was new to me as Emily Dickinson's view of this is one of my favorite poe...[Read Full Post] Tue, 01 Sep 2026 09:19:29 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1122307 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1122307 I'm finishing up The Whistler by Ann Patchett, a really good story if you like good stories, and I got up to walk a little so as not to get joint stiffness. 200 steps usually does the trick and adds up to over my goal of 5,000 per day. Anyway, I noticed my back seemed stiff as well so I began thinking about what might help that and thought massage...yeah, massage. But I'm alone so how was I to do that? I remembered reading somewhere about putting a b...[Read Full Post] Tue, 18 Aug 2026 14:54:51 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1121407 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1121407 When I was trying to think of something to write about on the 4th, I realized it was my sister-in-lawâs birthday, her 94th, so of course I had to call and wish her a happy one. Juanita was married to my husbandâs late brother Jack, his second eldest sibling. She and Jack were married when Jim was still a teenager, and he never tired of telling me how Jack would visit some weekends and take him fishing, always secreting some kind of candy bar in his pocket ...[Read Full Post] Wed, 05 Aug 2026 18:07:49 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1120677 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1120677 Do you keep a journal? I'm not sure I would call mine journals, but I do have a notebook (many) that I write in daily. I don't write a lot of my thoughts, but I do write about daily observations and things that I see that interest me like recipes or flowers or animals or books. And I have a 5-year book-type calendar (8-1/2 x 11) in which I make daily notes of appointments, bill amounts due, my morning weight, and future things (in that month) that I mig...[Read Full Post] Thu, 25 Jun 2026 10:39:43 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1118387 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1118387 Amazing! I saw 2 [Link: ' swallow-tailed kites '] from my back porch this morning! Thu, 18 Jun 2026 09:01:33 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1117971 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1117971