Making something every day DID change my life
Three-and-a-half months ago, I finished a year of making things. Guided by Noah Scalin’s wonderful book, 365: A Daily Creativity Journal, I succeeded in making something new. Every single day. For an […]
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Make Something: Loud
That’s it. One last creation in a year of making things each and every day. I did it. Three-hundred-sixty-five straight days of thinking and doing and playing and sharing. […]
Reflections on a year of daily practice
My year of poetry is complete. What next? I’m inviting family, friends, and “strangers” (is there any such thing, really?) into Just 99 Days of experimenting with daily practice. Will […]
Good Sports
Day 366 prompt: Sports I can spend a day at Wrigley or Comiskey or whatever they want me to call a ballpark now. I can eat snacks and keep one eye […]
Mama’s Breakfast
Day 365 prompt: Empty the morning hurricane is finally o’er children dressed and fed and out the door mama’s been going full throttle since six and all she has eaten are […]
Stay Off the Fence
Day 364 prompt: Fences wrought iron barbed wire picket chain link paint them mend them just know what you think
Vino
Day 363 prompt: Surfaces crisp white cotton peeks through clear glass disc that narrows into icy cool stem stretching from starched tablecloth to hand-washed goblet cradling a pool of black ruby […]
Reluctant Lullaby
Day 362 prompt: Sunshine Two busy little girls all kissed and tucked in. Their mommy is ready to sit once again. Just as Mom sinks to her bed with a sprawl, […]
They Come in Threes
Day 361 prompt: Three people say bad things come in threes as if that is a comfort so if I drop my phone in the toilet I know it’s just the […]
Losing
Day 360 prompt: Breakfast I recently learned a weight loss plan that sounded so easy I decided, “I can.” Lean animal protein: just eat a small bit a […]
My Group
Day 359 prompt: Group or groupings my family is my group they are a silly troupe I didn’t get to choose them but I never want to lose them they’re wacky […]
Exterior Decorating
Day 358 prompt: Interior calm laid back and unruffled a sure presence even under force of stress outside but inside edgy fretful squirming as the perpetual hiss of anxiety threatens to […]
Overcast
Day 357 prompt: Overcast no more rain and yet sky remains heavy with gray suggestions of darkness are bullies of mid-day
Green
Day 356 prompt: Green just ten more days in this poetic year and today’s prompt seemed perfectly clear ripe with symbolism both con and pro renewal, life, envy, earth, money, mold, […]
Shades of Grey
Day 355 prompt: Shades of Grey (a haiku, made with Haikubes) our limbs tangle hot gentle shiver slowly his full love opens me
