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EVERYTHING, even the dumbest of the dumb decisions I made (and there were many) helped me grow because there is no such thing as failure when you continue trying.
Tag: <span>dailyprompt</span>
The Cemetery of the Nameless is not easy to find. Only a few signs along the way point to this place only thirty minutes from downtown Vienna, the Capital of Austria.
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One word?
Imagine!
Stuffed in a drawer
of just one word?
I didn’t know there was something wrong with me until second grade. A girl in my class looked at my hands and told me I had sausage fingers.
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This is the animal that never was.
Not knowing that they loved it anyway;
its bearing, its stride, its high, clear whinny,
right down to the still light of its gaze.
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Oh yes, there is that one question I hate to be asked, because I hear it all the time, almost on a daily base, for nearly 40 years.
Where are you from?
Daily writing prompt
You’re writing your autobiography. What’s your opening sentence?
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In October 2009, during a time when the American economy took a nosedive and people
were being laid off by thousands and tens of thousands every day, we lost everything, our home, jobs, friends, and ultimately the city we had lived in for so many years.
Dear young one,
It’s me, your older – much older – self and that’s good news because as of today, you will at least live to be 60. So stay in shape, you have a long road ahead of you.
Daily writing prompt
If you had the power to change one law, what would it be and why?
I spent the summer of 1991 in Yugoslavia, a country that no longer exists. As always I got paid to travel and had all extra expenses reimbursed, which is fair enough because you still pay all your monthly bills at home.
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There are so many wonderful life-altering inventions, too many to list. Fire or the wheel? Internet or Telephon? Robots or Computers? Inventions have changed mankind throughout the centuries and made our lives better – or perhaps not.