I don’t quite recall what I wanted at five, although I know a few years later I alternated between wanting to be a gym teacher and a math teacher. A friend of mine during my med school years recalled wanting to be a trash truck (not the person, the truck) when he grew up. It […]
Read More And what do you want to Be, dear?Frozen grey and white Slowly transforms becomes green Wonderment of spring For today’s Ragtag Daily Prompt of Wonderment
Read More spring haikuThe Marshall Fire hit Dec 30, 2021. Fifteen months ago. In a matter of hours, fueled by extreme winds and dryness, more than 1000 homes and businesses were destroyed, as well as acres of open space burned. My town, Louisville, lost 550 homes; whole neighborhoods are gone. I was fortunate. The destroyed homes begin […]
Read More Fifteen Months LaterNow if was a secret skill or ability I have, it would no longer be a secret if I wrote about it, would it? What would I like to have? My cat just came downstairs meowing. He wants something. What, I’m not sure. He has food, water, a clean box, I just gave him drugs […]
Read More Another Language?Its officially spring here in the northern hemisphere and our weather these days is fairly typical. Bright and sunny, relatively warm days split time with cloudy, cool windy days and some snow thrown in for general entertainment. Yesterday morning, it was clear, sunny and breezy and cold, (20F/-7C). I looked out my back window where […]
Read More Bright Days comingThe WordPress writing prompt for today is where I would put the tattoo I want. The Ragtag daily prompt for today is anachronism. I don’t have a tattoo and don’t want one. I suppose that does make me an anachronism. Permanent skin decorations are suspect to me–its one thing if I occasionally add colorful stripes […]
Read More Not for me, thank youWell, that certainly fits March weather here in Colorado and many other places. Yesterday was balmy, today its cold and windy and there’s a chance of snow. Snow on early flowers is normal. On to other predictable problems that occur unpredictably: shootings. Today is the second anniversary of the King Soopers shooting. I’d forgotten the […]
Read More Predictably UnpredictableWhat is your middle name? Does it carry any special meaning/significance? The question above is the wordpress prompt for today. I don’t have a middle name. My mother, who disliked her own middle name, did not give a middle name to either myself or my sister. My brothers each got one, interestingly the last name […]
Read More Other People’s Dreamscat on the keyboard intransitive and purring not my writing for today’s Ragtag Daily Prompt of intransitive
Read More not movingI made it out to Barr Lake for the first time this year. Barr is a state park, about 20 miles east of where I live. It’s a former buffalo wallow which was turned into an irrigation reservoir more than 100 years ago. And while the water is still used for irrigating fields, the land […]
Read More BirdwalkDescribe the last difficult “goodbye” you said. Today’s jetpack prompt is as above. I’ve described the last two difficult goodbyes previously in this blog, saying goodbye to the previous generation of cats, first Jules, and then a year later, his sister Lucy. I’ve mused over the years on why goodbyes to these creatures with whom […]
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Curious Steph 