You’re going on a cross-country trip. Airplane, train, bus, car, or bike? What a great question this daily prompt… Considering the answer, lays the groundwork for my first months of retirement, Free to travel, with no set timeframe, bucket list item, perhaps above all others, to travel coast to coast through this vast land that …
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What strategies do you use to cope with negative feelings? Daily prompt, great fundamental lesson, different strategies, same purpose: Neutralize The Negative. My number one way, honed over many, many years, the simple act of counting, forcing a pause…a few seconds, maybe even minutes sometimes, allowing the moment and the negative feelings to exhaust, and …
What is your middle name? Does it carry any special meaning/significance? The prompt fits the moment, “What is your middle name?” Like my father before me, and his grandfather too, Howard is our middle name, Don’t know why, but that’s our name, And my son has the same middle name, three in a row, and …
Write about your approach to budgeting. I use the baseline pay as one starter, and rough numbers of monthly expenses as the other, and make payments each month, a credit line covering the gaps, Rough numbers, need to know, hold them close enough to manage, but not so close you go crazy, Live within your …
Are you patriotic? What does being patriotic mean to you? It goes like this for me mostly, about the idea of “America”, the “Great Experiment of Democracy”, the ideals written into the US Constitution, the Rule of Law…for that I feel patriotism…and for the opportunities I’ve had by living here, most appreciative… For the leaders …
You get some great, amazingly fantastic news. What’s the first thing you do? Massive big news, or a tiny success, my reaction is the same, “Thank You, Jesus.” * Whenever anything positive happens, my reflex response has become gratitude. Over what is now decades, that attitude has served me well, and so it is, my …
The most important invention in your lifetime is... The Smartphone, No Doubt, no doubt in my mind this is true, Not only mobile audio (and often video) communication available, But so much more really, a pocket computer, at your fingertips, 24/7, Communication, information, entertainment, and so much more, SO MUCH MORE…! Tho’ some might say …
Something on your "to-do list" that never gets done. True dat, true dat, worry has been with me most all my days, near fifty years and counting, And sometimes I’ve gotten better at coping, sometimes not so much, funny how that is… Over decades the topics of worry multiply, funny how that is… Get better …
Write about your first computer. A basic computing machine, my first computer, a Commodore clone, purchased direct from the company, picked up on the shipping dock, Direct to my dorm room, used it like a typewriter, so many college papers writing there. Five inch floppy disks to save the work, monitor like a little TV, …
Daily Prompt: “Share a story about the furthest you’ve ever traveled from home.” Twenty years back, I had the chance to visit China. A buddy was going to meet up with his high school chum, and I got to go along. I’d visited the Soviet Union / Russia three times at that point; I figured …
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