A Desert Island

A funny thing, I’ve heard people talk about being stranded on a Desert Island (presumably, an Island that is a Desert), but then I’ve also heard people talk about being stranded on a Deserted Island (i.e. an Island on which there are no other humans).  Lately, I think I’d take the Desert Island, but sometimes, [...]

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In which Suzanne writes really bad poetry

I wrote this yesterday, but never got around to posting it. The prompt was to write a cinquain about food, each of the 5 lines following a specified structure. (As an aside, I’d never heard of a cinquain until last year, when the boys started writing them at school. Apparently there are a variety of [...]

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the return of write it down

Remember back at the beginning of the month, when I started doing daily journal exercises? Well, the prompts just stopped appearing after a week, and it turns out that the site had been hit by spammers.  And the site’s owner had been traveling and unable to get it all fixed.  The prompts have started appearing [...]

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Write It Down — February 7th

I got stuck on this one last night. The prompt was to make a list of the things you had done during the day and put the list in order three different ways: chronological, in order by the amount of time each task took, and finally in order of importance. I got bogged down on [...]

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Write It Down — February 6th

You will most likely notice a decided lack of quilting related posts (i.e. an emphasis on the Other Adventures part of my blog title…) in the current and near future.  This is not because I have given up quilting (far from it!!), but more because most of what I’m working on currently (quilting or otherwise) [...]

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Write It Down — February 5th

No page or picture for today’s journaling exercise: just the words.  Here’s the prompt that started this one. Ode to My Computer I love you not just because you keep me organized and help me answer questions of all kinds (what did we do without Google?). I also love you because you help me find [...]

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Write It Down — February 4th

I kind of knew what I was going to do for this yesterday, but didn’t have time to see it to completion (see gratuitous puppy cuteness in previous posts). This was an interesting journaling prompt, but I’m not sure I’ll use it again.   I really liked Shimelle’s example, but mine feels a little contrived.  It [...]

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Write It Down — February 3rd — Prepositions!

Oh, phew. Today’s prompt from Shimelle was a lot easier than yesterday’s… She had a mini English lesson (refresher course) about prepositions, and the prompt was to write short sentence fragments that all began with a preposition. My plan is to wind up with a stack of these very simple pages that are 5 by [...]

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More about the humane society plus Write it Down, February 2

In my previous post, I made a big deal out of feeling kind of weird after we left the Humane Society, and then I didn’t actually tell you what the conversation was about.  I wasn’t even sure I was going to share, but since Leah asked, I’ll go ahead and tell you. There was a [...]

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Write It Down — February 1st

I’ve been waiting all day long for the first prompt to appear on Shimelle’s blog (she’s the instructor from my Christmas Journal Class). Every day in February she’s supposed to have a journaling prompt, and it finally appeared! My goal is to focus on the writing, but still do a digital page. The finished page [...]

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