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: memories
Make Something: Hands
Today’s prompt was to make something inspired by a hand. Jim took a photo of my hands; then I played with words and photo effects to create this image: While I tinkered, […]
Tractor: Simple Shapes Convey Complex Ideas
Daddy taught all of us to draw a tractor. We drew tractors every Sunday in church, sitting beside him or on his lap. So when our Sibling Discovery Project turned up […]
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 […]
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 […]
Unforgettable
first full-on kiss tornado’s near miss “it’s a girl” surprise Haleakala sunrise pulling baby to breast laying mom to rest
In Remembrance
Day 219 prompt: Remembrance receiving wine and wafer I recall my Savior but other foods and drinks evoke different human links milk from a jug, sardines from a can bring back […]
Every Day Sights
Day 161 prompt: Every Day Sights Before my eyes are even open I feel my husband’s presence by the bed He leans over to kiss me goodbye Too bleary to see […]
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?
Ease | Words from the Carver, Sketches from the Textile Artist
The second word we drew out of the hat in the Sibling Discovery Project was “ease.” I threw this word in the mix, because it reminds me of Mom and […]
Rural Roots
Day 89 prompt: City or Town as a teen I left the farm for the big city of jobs and pavement made a full happy life in urbia and suburbia remarkably […]
Sibling Discovery Begins
On January 15, 2012, I wrote to my sister and brother, inviting them into something I’m calling the Sibling Discovery Project. To my delight, they were game. I think it’s extraordinary […]
Vivid Memories
Day 20 prompt: vivid Acrid memory Smell of slaughter as we drove past the meat packing plant Candid memory Sharing secrets at sleepovers when anyone chose truth over dare Flaccid […]
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