Make Something: Far
“Make something that you can only see properly from far away or at a great height.” After yesterday’s poem about the winter landscape, I guess maybe I’m fixated on the […]
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Make Something: Door
“Add a door where one wouldn’t normally exist. Extra credit: Make it functional.” This now hangs right inside my office door, on a wall where a real door would be […]
Make Something: Human Body
Today’s assignment was to create something using only the human body, whether mine or that of a friend. I chose the body of my youngest child. Emma is not only […]
Make Something: Leftovers
“Make a facial expression on your plate from the leftovers of a meal.” School starts the day after tomorrow. In these last few days of summer, the kids and I […]
Make Something: Piñata
After the papier-mache experiment earlier this month, my shoulders slumped when I saw today’s make something prompt: “Make a piñata and destroy it.” I simply could not face papier-mache again. Determined to stay […]
Make Something: BIG!
When Noah Scalin wrote today’s Make Something prompt—“make something as big as you possibly can”—I suspect he had in mind creating something life-size. Huge. Outlandish. But honestly, the very first […]
Make Something: Before Breakfast
Oh, Noah Scalin, you are hitting all my sensitivities so early in this year of making 365 somethings. For this 9th day, the creative journal suggests making something with your […]
Spring
warm at last kids blow bubbles while grown-ups pull start mowers and light grills
The Children
who would dare interrupt the CEO whose door is closed whose head bends toward the desk whose gaze holds fast to a glowing screen whose pen scratches hastily on the […]
Zzzzzzzz
ass on couch feet propped up crackers in a dish wine in her cup children chatting in their beds two with each other one on the web mama doesn’t notice […]
No idea
a haiku mom’s thoughts vaporize against kids’ burning questions no wonder she’s fried
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 […]
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, […]
Mom’s View
Day 339 prompt: Panning (motion) shot a haiku bent knees, stocking feet, sprouts of hair … weekend morning in our living room
Beth Nyland 