What is a life well lived to you? A life well lived is a life shared. This is coming from someone who doesn’t like sharing. At all. I share the same way you’re supposed to give up your bus or train seat to an elderly person, or allow others to sample your dish after you’ve … More Day 17: Success!
You have the chance to write one last post on your blog before you stop blogging forever. Write it. I’m just a soul whose intentions are good. Oh Lord, please don’t let me be misunderstood.
Write a summary of the book you’ve always wanted to write for the back cover of its dust jacket. The Homecoming The unthinkable has happened: Egypt has attacked Ethiopia and Africa has just the thing it needs, another war. Except this war is on a scale the continent has never seen before. The river Nile, … More Day 15: Coming to a Bookshelf Near You
Think of a time you let something slide, only for it to eat away at you later. Tell us how you’d fix it today. While we were packing up my soon-to-be-ex-boyfriend’s furniture to move it into my apartment, I saw a live cockroach in one of his dresser drawers. As soon as I made a … More Day 14: Set It To Rights
Write an entire post without using any three-letter words. Whew. At least they didn’t demand that I utilize only three letter words. That would have been very hard, though possible. I remember a book I once read – We Need to Talk About Kevin – in which said Kevin, psychopath that he is, writes every … More Day 13: Three Letter Words
Link to an item in the news you’ve been thinking about lately, and write the op-ed you’d like to see published on the topic. This is the news item: Hospital Death in Ireland Renews Fight Over Abortion http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/15/world/europe/hospital-death-in-ireland-renews-fight-over-abortion.html?ref=todayspaper I don’t even know where to begin with this. It doesn’t take a die-hard fan of Grey’s … More Day 12: IMHO
Go back in time to an event you think could have played out differently for you. Let alternate history have its moment: tell us what could, would or should have happened? When I was twelve I got lost in Vienna’s Prater gardens. We were in the amusement park area. I went alone to get cotton … More Day 11: Revisionist History
Take a line from a song that you love or connect with. Turn that line into the title of your post. In the middle of the night, I go walking in my sleep… “River of Dreams” – Billy Joel If night gets redefined as the time between sunrise and sunset, call me a sleepwalker. If … More NaBloPoMo Day 10: This is Your Song
What change, big or small, would you like your blog to make in the world? The world is a big place. My blog is a very small place. It’s a very small place where I started out by recording my experiences of being in a very big part of the big place: China, the farthest … More NaBloPoMo Day 9: Be the Change
Create a new word and explain its meaning and etymology. dermaddisizereg verb 1. The act of visually scrutinizing an individual with the intent of discovering whether he/she originates from Ethiopia. Origin: derma of or relating to the skin, Addis of or relating to the city of Addis Ababa as synonymous with Ethiopia, ize origin unknown … More NaBloPoMo Day 8: Play Lexicographer
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