Bloganuary Prompt: “What is your mission?” This prompt is like a “fat pitch” in baseball, ripe for a full swing for the fence… After more than five decades on this beautiful planet Earth, I still learn new things every day and adjust to tue path the Universe sets before me.. But my mission? Plan and …
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Do Now
Bloganuary Prompt: “What could you do differently?” Short and sweet for this one. There’s a time management maxim that goes something like this: “If you can accomplish a task in two minutes or less, so the task immediately. That way, it’s done. No more thinking about it needed.” I can apply this rule more regularly …
Superpower? GRATITUDE
Bloganuary Prompt: “If you had a freeway billboard, what would it say?” Not sure why it too me all day to post this. My answer came to mind as soon as I saw the prompt this morning. I'm a big fan of LOVE; it's on more than one wall in my house; it's tattooed on …
The Time Troika
Daily writing promptDo you spend more time thinking about the future or the past? Why?View all responses The "Time Troika" ... to answer this Bloganuary prompt, if I'm to be honest .. I think about those time references -- Future, Past, and as I'll add in the next breath, Present -- These all meld together …
Time: The Most Precious Commodity
Bloganuary Prompt: “What is the greatest gift someone could give you?” Not really a fair pic on my part. After all, it’s very difficult to give another person “time“… But at this point in my life, that’s what I must desire. More time with my kids, More time to write, More time with my friends, …
Good Ol’ SCU
Bloganuary Prompt: “What colleges have you attended?” I’m a native of Santa Clara, a smaller city next to a bigger city, San Jose, in the south part of the San Francisco Bay Area. As I was gearing up for college all those years ago, I was also growing up through adolescence. It was a tough …
Splashes of Play
Bloganuary Prompt: “ Do you play in your daily life? What says “playtime” to you? “ A month or so back one of my longest and best friends introduced me to the Puzzles Section on the New York Times app. My buddy suggested it was a good way to engage your mind after sleeping the …
Balancing Bigs
Bloganuary Prompt: “What are your biggest challenges?” Funny, I’ve got at least a few things I could mention here (like most people?); but in summary, it’s about “balancing the bigs.” By “bigs” I mean, the big plates in my life I work to keep in the air every day, including, Work: Gotta earn a living, …
Lazy Sundays, The Niners, and Grandma’s Recipe Book
“What makes you feel nostalgic?”Don’t get it much these days, rarely a free Sunday to laze, always big, little things I should be doing, but final Sunday of 2023, making an exception,The SF Niners on the early game, intentional, to actually sit and watch, the Fourth Quarter anyway, similar, remembering back when there was less …
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Another Primer: “I Believe In Relationship”
Prompt: “What relationships have a positive impact on you?” Some twenty years back I wrote a piece and submitted it to NPR for the “This I Believe” series. I believe in relationship. I did then. I still do. Have been through another marriage start to sad finish since then, but my trust in and desire …
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