I enrolled in a creative writing course at the University of Toronto. We had daily writing prompts, and we were to start a ten-minute timer and go. As I have been busy trying to wrestle my manuscript from my brain to my keyboard (with the keyboard uncooperative) I thought maybe I’d dig some to......
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This week’s prompt… Getting Lost. You have 15 minutes–go! Getting lost can sometimes be a wonderful thing, sometimes less than wonderful. This day it was a great day to get lost. We were in the city of canals, Venice Italy. Our family had been travelling for five weeks or more when we got there......
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This week’s prompt… Blue. You have 15 minutes–go! His eyes capture my attention but it is his particular shade of blue that shocks me even now. The whites are yellowed with age, but the blue gets bluer. My father’s sapphire eyes tell stories without words. My brother and I were raised by our single......
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This week’s prompt… Sky Diving. You have 15 minutes–go! The year I turned 50, I took 50 items off my bucket list. It seems an easy thing to do, find 50 new experiences to have in a year. It may not be as simple as that. As with many conundrums, I turned to my......
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This week’s 15-minute writing prompt is: Guilty Pleasures. And, go! Guilty Pleasures Reality TV is my guilty pleasure. I am a card-carrying Bachelor nation fan, have sent in audition tapes for The Amazing Race Canada for the last five years, and you can’t tear me away from Survivor since it first aired with a......
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