All Entries in the "life purpose" Category
No Poems?
No poems. We just returned home from a speedy trip to Dallas. On the trip my cell phone took its last breath. So since we touched down at home I’ve been scrambling to research and buy a new phone. I’m now dependent on this technology to run my business. This means I have to research, [...]
The Volunteer’s Daughter:
One more for today…..
The volunteer’s daughter:
6 PM he is paged to dispatch at the station
Midnight to a smoke investigation
2AM it’s a medical emergency
someone’s child is choking
3AM I’m awakened
by my father’s arms around me -
I know another child has died.
Imagine the world without you
Robert’s prompt today is to imagine the world without you.
Here’s what he wrote:
Today’s prompt is to write a poem in which you imagine the world without you. Since my favorite movie (It’s a Wonderful Life) plays with this idea, I’m surprised I’ve never used this prompt before. The world could be a much worse place [...]
From The Ground Up Thought
Poor whynotrachel.com. I continue to use and abandon it. Now I want to use it for snippets of thoughts and words I’m playing with. A home for my mental scrapbook, where an ideas does not have to be complete to be alive. A place to enjoy a raw word diet.
So welcome to my treehouse. You’re [...]
It’s a Writers Life for Me?
(Another post like the last one, but different…sort of)
I didn’t sleep through k-12 but I struggled. It would be years after public school that I would get my first pair of low vision reading glasses. I had a learning disability and was told I had ADD. So here I am at 46, a poor speller, [...]
The Repurposing of WhyNotRachel
A bit about the site, then and now:
This was my first domain and I named it as I asked the question “why not see if I have anything meaningful to say, lots of people write and share their ideas, why can’t I?….WhyNotRachel was born. I had just closed down my studio and was tapering down [...]
Consider the Facts, Carefully
My “limit free living” thought for today is, consider information with care.
So what do I mean by today’s thought? Let me give you an example to start this conversation out.
I remember hearing a statistic on NPR that 85% of people who are legally blind or blind are unemployed. I thought, of course, no one wants [...]
Helping Your Disabled War Vet Spouse
Today is a repost from Patty Newbold’s Blog. For those of you who are not familiar with Patty’s work, she’s a “happy marriage expert.” Her blog, Assume Love: How to have a happier marriage without waiting for your spouse to change, is a must-add to your RSS feed.
Yesterday she wrote a blog [...]