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......
Continue Reading
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......
Continue Reading
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......
Continue Reading
This week’s prompt… Skunks. You have 15 minutes–go! Musk Oil It was a late morning. We had company the night before for a lively dinner and the kitchen was already clean so there was no rush to begin our day. Then I heard him. He was barking at the back door as if he......
Continue Reading
If you would like to play along, get your pen an paper ready. This week’s prompt… Taxes. You have 15 minutes–go! Age and Taxes There was a time in my life that I could calculate the taxes on a meal and the tip without fingers, toes or even, gasp, a handheld device. That time......
Continue Reading