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NoJoMo 19 --
Prompt – What is the dominant emotion in your life right now? Irritation. Something arrived damaged and I’ve been trying to read and follow the returns instructions. Tiny little print in English...
NoJoMo 18 -- Define "Forgive"
Prompt –How easy is it for you to forgive those who have caused you pain? I don’t really believe in heaven or hell or judgment. I believe that when spirits (souls, whatever) discorporate they re...
NoJoMo 17 - Anger
Prompt - How do I handle anger? I draw up in a tight little ball and mutter things like”Stupid head-in-the-sand wackadoodle. “
NoJoMo 16 -- Why Did I Even Bring It Up?
Hoops is wondering whether he should restart a writers club here and expressed the opinion that he didn’t want any a**holes Somebody asked me a question. It’s my personal opinion that there are...
NoJoMo 14 -- Stories
No, I don’t have any copies of the book. I have the original outline only. Momma was a kinda hyperactive kid. She drove Granmama nuts running around wiuth the boy cousins , yelling, climbing t...
NoJoMo 14 -- Books And Other Nonsense
Questions are better prompts. I was asked about being a “published author.” When I was about five years old, I asked my father why some books were silly and others were “good.” My father always ...
NoJoMo 12 - Symbol
An on-line friend asked about the symbol in my profile picture. It is an infinity sign. I adopted it when death seemed Imminent . It was meant to remind me (and my family) that spirit is infin...
NoJoMo 11
I avoided the TV today and thus all the Vetren s’ Day stuff, otherwise my heart would break. Too much has been lost, much of it in vain.
NoJoMo 10 -- With Memories and Tears
Prompt of no consequence From the Halls of Montezuma To the shores of Tripoli; We fight our country’s battles In the air, on land, and sea; First to fight for right and freedom And to keep o...
NoJoMo 9 -- Uh Uh
Prompt – What’s your secret desire? If I told, it wouldn’t be secret.
NoJoMo 8 -- More About Llamas
Prompt –What’s the worst thing you’ve ever done? It’s also, probably, the best thing I’ve ever done, which is to conceal my short stint in the Marine Corp from Husband, who despises all military...
NoJoMo 6 -Lie? What Lie?
Prompt – The biggest lie I’ve ever told was meant as a joke. Well, maybe not so much a joke as relief from boredom and assininity. My last child was about to gradualte from high school and I wen...
NoJoMo 5 -- Almost missed this one
Prompt – Dear ____, it weighs on me that I never told you . ..This one misses me entirely. I did not much of anything today, except make a chicken noodle dish for lunch. and clean the kitchen af...
NoJoMo Day 4 -- More Rain
Prompt - Five short term and 5 long term goals I’m not really a goal oriented person. Definitely a projecft oriented type. Trim things - the holly bush, the Silver Sage bush, Carolina Jasmine, an...
NoJoMo 3 -- Rain?
Prompt - Who do you admire? I admire several people, none of whom are public figures. There are four women here on Prosebox, all of them from OD, whom I admire. Each of them has a thirst for kn...
NoJoMo 2 0 Dinner Out
Prompt - Things you’ve done that you previously thought you could never do. I’ve done some things that I found diffficult to do, but I don’t think I’ve ever done something that I thought I coundn...
NoJoMo 1 -- A project
A project - I have a project again – Hurrah I’m playing catch-up with my back yard, otherwise known as “The French Drain I’m Trying to Disguise.” There is a tiny wooden stoop and a long, slightly...
Abo--o- o-ut Face! March!
Several days ago, I saw my little cardiologist. He listened as I catalogued the complaints again: dizziness, loss of balance, wooziness, fogged thinking, warped vision, chills, waves of nausea. ...
Another Step Forward?
My oncologist has told me that I am in remission. That’s good news, of course, but I’m not sure of it being meaningful. The lymphoma was never much of an issue to me. It was the empyema (infecti...
Tits UP !
Markers of recovery are sometimes a little odd. One would like to celebrate the return of normalacy, but … A couple of weeks ago, I rejoined the majority of western women in a little custom I hav...
For Those Who Were Curious
This is the jewelry from the previous entry. The bracelet is somewhere around a century old. I bought it from the ;leftover stock of an old gem and mineral shop that had gone out of business in...
Life Seeeps Back
Bit by bit life seeps back into this old body. I am now able to say, "I am better." I've been weaning off the oxygen . Three days ago, Husband and I went to Olive Garden and I didn't take the ta...
A Major Non-Event
Having weathered a nasty sinus infection, discovered that I am now allergic to all antiboitics known to the western world, had my heart medicines changed yet again (engendering withdrawl from the...
Remembering
Mage B writes today about "87 Things Only Poor Kids Know." It's young adulthood that gave me the lessons of poverty: It is 1962. Husband is in a body cast. The accident is not his fault, but t...
75
Today I am 75 years old. That's one of those "How did this happen?" kind of things.
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This and that from daily life
