I really wanted to succeed at this 30-day blogging challenge. But I just evaluated my work hours last week and looked at my available hours this week, and I don’t have time to spend approximately an hour a day writing and posting frivolous articles.
Tag: writing
Blogging Challenge Day 6: My Gender is Sweatpants
30-Day Blogging Challenge Day 6 Prompt: Masks Off We’re less than a week away from Halloween! If you had to design a costume that channeled your true, innermost self, what would that costume look like? Would you dare to wear it? I was going to write about sweatpants, but I have written about this before on Facebook….
Blogging Challenge Day 5: Things That Make Me Laugh
30-Day Blogging Challenge Day 5 Prompt: Laughter List as many things as you can that make you laugh. Okay! In no particular order: People falling down: I feel a bit bad about this one because bodies are fragile…but watching people trip and fall can be SO FUNNY! That seems truest on TV and online because it’s easier…
Journaling Day 4: In Which I Decide That Daily Digital Journaling Is Not For Me
30-Day Digital Journaling Challenge Day 4 Prompt: Choose a photo from your childhood and study it closely. What is going on in the foreground? The background? Who is in the picture and how are they related and interacting? Describe the setting and the furnishings. Make the picture come alive with your words! Alternate Prompt: Debbie:…
Journaling Day 3: Something About the Law of Attraction?
30-Day Digital Journaling Challenge Day 3 Prompt: According to Law of Attraction, we attract to our lives whatever we give our attention to, whether wanted and/or unwanted. Describe in one sentence something that is uncomfortable and unwanted for you. Then give 5 minutes to writing about how you would like things to be. What? These…
Journaling Day 2: I Am Supposed to Have a Conversation with My Body
30-Day Digital Journaling Challenge Day 2 Prompt: Today when you begin your writing, spend a few moments to bring your awareness to your physical experience and tune in to your body. Run an inventory check from the tips of your toes to the top of your head. In your journal, greet your body/tension or feeling….
Journaling Day 1: Okay, I’m Going to Try This 30-Day Journaling Challenge
A few days ago my acquaintance Bakari Chavanu posted a link on Facebook to a 30-day Digital Journaling Challenge. It seemed up my alley—I’ve considered NaNoWriMo for years, but I’m more interested in blogging and composing articles than in trying my hand at writing a novel. I have mad respect and a slight bit of envy for…
Seventh Grade English Writing Assignment: “English: Descriptive Language”
Here’s another elementary school assignment I typed up. In this one, I had to try to cram in examples of descriptive language and identify them for the teacher. Blah. I left my old notes in. I’m pretty sure from the language used that I didn’t take the assignment too seriously—and after reading the teacher’s notes,…
Dear Morgan Freeman-loving Atheists: Race Blindness Doesn’t Solve the Race Problem
This post sat in my Drafts folder for more than a year ‘cuz I’m a chicken who generally prefers to avoid spending time in internet debates on contentious topics. But now I’m trying to clean up my Drafts folders, so here it is. A couple days before Martin Luther King Jr. day, a skeptic friend…
Fourth Grade English Writing Assignment: Swimming
Sept. 14, 1989 Grade 4 Debbie Goddard English It was really hard for me to learn how to swim. Some people are born swimmers. I wasn’t. I sank like a rock. Once I slipped and fell and hit my head. It was very tireing. The next day I couldn’t sink!