Now this is easy don’t you think? 4.) Open letter to a celebrity. I’m actually going to change it up a little and write some very short messages to a number of celebrities that only merit a text message, not a full-on letter. Dear David Hasslehoff: Roasts won’t help. Tangos won’t help. Spandex pants REALLY [...]

Mama Kat s leading me down memory lane this week. 1.) Your childhood neighborhood. I could on on forever. My childhood neighborhood was idyllic. Leafy suburban streets, walking distance to one of the top high schools in the state, if not the nation. Neighbors who all knew each other and barbequed together in the summer. [...]

An interesting idea to ponder from Mama Kat this week. Not the part about who Lou Holz might be. I know who he is. Because college football is, like, my favorite thing. After chocolate. 1.) Lou Holtz (don’t ask me who that is) once said, “life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety [...]

Well. Mama Kat just gave me permission to be super-lazy! 2.) If you were put in “time out”, where would you want to be placed and why? I actually wrote about my ideal image of Mommy Time Out but I don’t think anyone ever read it. So I’m reviving it right here for all of [...]

Mama Kat is making me write poetry again. I think it’s punishment for when I accused her of stalking me last week. 2.) Write a poem for your furry friend. Ah, but which furry friend? Could I write an elegy for Rose, the greatest dog of all time? Should I write about my obese cat [...]

OK, this Mama Kat prompt is spooky: 5.)Earthquake! Where were you when it happened? Why is this spooky? Because there actually was an earthquake in DC last week! Do you know how often DC gets earthquakes? Never.  We never get earthquakes. We get disasters like blizzards and heat waves and snakehead fish in the Potomac [...]

Mama Kat is simply FORCING me to do this post.  FORCING. Against my better judgment. But here goes… 1.) Choose a headline from The Today Show website and write up an opinion post based on the story you chose. Well. There’s only one story this week: Mel Gibson. And I don’t want to write about [...]

Mama Kat is opening a can of worms here! 1.) What would you change about your life if you could? Way, way back in the mid-1990s I had a job that left me with a lot of time on my hands.  My good friend S had a similar job. So, we took to the internet [...]

Oh, Mama Kat.  Why must you make me relive this? 2.) Write a poem about a memory you sometimes wish would disappear. It was a warm night in Florence. Summer. The old city rose about me, all stone walls and cathedrals. We sat around the table, covered in brown paper, littered with the remains of [...]

Well, this is an intriguing prompt from Mama Kat. 1.)    The Love List. Write a list of 50 things you look for in a man. I’m going to start with the basics that I looked for when I was 23 and started dating after being dumped by breaking up with my college boyfriend. 1)      Single [...]