Go-Go Boots
I wanted white go-go boots so bad. I wanted to look glamorous and tough. I wanted to sing and dance and strut. I wanted go-go boots. Knee-high. Long zippers, from […]
Tag Archives: childhood
Make Something: Wannabe
Today’s make something prompt is this: If you could do or be anything in the world, what would it be? Make something as if you were actually doing or being […]
Make Something: Soap
Use a bar of soap to make something new. I’m going to bend the rules again. Rather than using soap to make something new, I’m going to use it to […]
Make Something: Unique Mask
I awoke too early this morning—a full two hours before I really needed to be up. As I lay there thinking, I decided my kindergarten year was a pretty spectacular time […]
Potluck | Beth’s Essay & Image
I wanted to do something visual for this prompt, but I simply didn’t have the tools or skills to do what I envisioned. So I took the image as far […]
Bedtime
Day 325 prompt: Bed Time props and scenery change a cup of milk a glass of wine footie pajamas sweats and a tee a picture book a few pages of a […]
Sky-High
Day 322 prompt: Sky-High while wandering a lakeside path the little boy looks up Where does the sky begin? grandpa stretches one long arm as high as he possibly can Beyond […]
Adding Adult to Injury
Day 276 prompt: Softness injured child falls to the ground clutching crying instinctively revealing vulnerability hoping someone will help injured adult stiffens to full height stifling denying protectively concealing vulnerability hoping […]
Tot’s Eye View
Day 274 prompt: Chairs or Benches Three feet tall and in a pew, what do little children view? A few fat books, the tiled floor, long spans of oak, and not […]
Garden | Beth’s Essay
When I was a little girl, we had a huge garden just west of the front yard. It felt, to me, as big as a football field. Probably it was […]
Life’s Seasons
Day 158 prompt: Autumn Spring green years of childhood sprout grow Summer hot spell of young adulthood bloom flourish Autumn colorful time of middle age harvest change Winter gray period of […]
Under the Hood
Day 142 prompt: Childhood In all likelihood Her childhood Of orphanhood Knit her selfhood Into an adulthood Of servanthood Rooting out falsehoods In the neighborhood Of the priesthood
House Stories
Day 135 prompt: Letters in Architecture If the house where you grew up wrote a memoir, would its recollection of your childhood match your own?
Growing Up Rural
Day 94 prompt: Rural on long afternoons when I was a girl I’d lie in the grass and gaze at the swirl of clouds overhead the sky like a mural lost […]
Farm girl
Day 9 prompt: on a farm (a nonnet) As Dad’s tractor hums in the cornfield Last born, too green to tend the crops, Sprawls out under maple shade Grazing on […]
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