Prompt: Describe a version of yourself that is just starting to take form.
Phew.
Perhaps it isn’t so much about a version of myself that is starting to take form more than it is about me coalescing, finalizing, or securing the seemingly disparate parts of who I am. If anything, the “more complete” version of myself may be starting to take form.
(more…)Prompt: What part of you has been quietly asking for more space?
Lately, there’s been a ripening desire within me to write more seriously. This blog is part of that larger goal, but I want to have a more focussed and targeted approach to my writing. I want to work on something less ad-hoc, something more seasoned.
For this, I will need to make the time and find the space.
Today’s prompt: What themes, lessons, or beginnings from this month are staying with you?
I want to continue with the daily writing prompts on Letters’ Lounge. It only occurred to me late in the evening today that tomorrow is February and that I hadn’t scheduled any writing prompts. I managed to get a few ready to go and will finish the rest over the next few days.
(more…)Today’s prompt: Where is trust asking to be rebuilt, extended, or reclaimed in your life?
Every now and again, the idea of writing a book pops into my head. The impetus for these latest string of daily posts is that very prospect. Trouble is, I don’t know what I’d write about, despite having a few ideas, because I don’t know that what I want to tell warrants the effort.
(more…)Today’s Prompt: What roots you — right now, in this season?
I would have to say that writing grounds me, providing me with a familiar place to take off from and land on. While is remains a firmly rooted component of my life, it operates more akin to lichen, spreading out through the various aspects of my life.
I’d hardly consider myself a writer, although there was a time when it was an aspiration of mine, preferring, instead, to remain someone who writes. I do hope that one day, like seeds into trees, my words will make their way into a book.
Today’s prompt can be found at Letters’ Lounge.
It would be nice to have some grand project in mind for 2026, even just a 365 project. All that really comes to mind, what feels most reasonable, is working at reducing the amount I keep on my plate.
(more…)I recently applied to Google AdSense for this website. I had it running on Bernard Walter, making maybe a total of three dollars over the course of half-a-dozen years. It was something, I suppose. My application was rejected due to “low quality content.”
(more…)Over a year ago, I decided that I should work through the pens and notebooks that I have laying around. I had a bunch of inexpensive Hilroy notebooks, the ones you’d buy for back to school in junior high school. There were Bic pens, a few rollerballs, and a Parker Jotter in my desk drawer. Slowly, I’ve been using them up.
(more…)When we were growing up, my dad had a section of the basement cordoned off with a brown curtain. My sister and I were not allowed there. Nothing nefarious was taking place – my dad used to have a side-hustle repairing electronics.
(more…)I’ve been aware that I’ve been having dreams lately, not like Martin Luther King, but while I’m sleeping, and I don’t like it. I can’t remember most of them, which is frustrating in itself, but I woke up pissed off about something that happened in my dream, and I can’t remember what it was.
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I must’ve gone on for at least half an hour, if not 45-minutes, while we were driving back from PEI, about whether I should post links to my blog posts on my Instagram Stories. It’s been on my mind for about a week. Every time I ran through an argument, I ended up at the same conclusion: I don’t know.
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Creativity is a funny thing. We seem to value it very highly in our private lives but dismiss it too easily in our professional ones.
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