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Daily Prompt 9/23/23
This is a tough question. I would say it’s between Storm Front by Billy Joel, Automatic for the People by REM, Big Ones by Aerosmith, Colour by Numbers by Culture Club, Hysteria by Def Leppard, and Queen’s Platinum Collection. The winner is Queen. Sure it’s just a collection of their most popular and mostly best…
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Perspective change
I have discovered in the last year that just about anything can look terrible to you when you are looking at the bad side of things. Or sometimes all it takes is a little reframing to realize that you are thinking too much about the negatives of a situation and not considering the positives at…
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Daily Prompt 9/11/23
I wish I had learned that it’s not important to get the last word in much earlier in life. As a child I ALWAYS had to get the last word in. And this continued through my teen years and into adulthood. But in the last 5 years, I have learned that it’s actually not all…
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Daily Prompt 9/9/23
Going to a wedding! It’s my wife’s cousin’s wedding-her FAVORITE cousin! He’s an awesome dude. Like super awesome. His brother is the complete opposite. Big brother has a great job as a CPA and just bought a house with his fiance. Little brother wants to be a rapper and just moved into their grandmother’s house…
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Daily Prompt 9/8/23
Yes and no. I used to hold grudges against everyone for anything they did that felt bad to me. I am trying to heal and work through those grudges because they mostly hurt me in the long run. But honestly, I think the grudge I will never let go of is the boy who pushed…
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Daily Prompt 9/7/23
The personality trait that I think is the most telling about who people are would be whether or not people can laugh at themselves. That’s a huge red flag for me for a bunch of reasons: No one needs to share the most mortifying thing that ever happened to them with complete strangers. But nearly…
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Daily Prompt 9/6/23
The farthest I’ve ever traveled from home was to the Middle East on deployments. There were several times where we had some down time and were able to get off base to see things outside of our very brown and tan world on the base. One of those times was in 2016. A few people…
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Where have I been?
Last Thursday started as an average day, except I was really, really fatigued. I just remember feeling exhausted before I really got going that day. My wife and I ate lunch late because there was an event at her work that evening and we didn’t really have time to eat dinner before the event because…
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Daily Prompt 8/29/23
I blog because writing is therapeutic for me. I sort so many things out while I write and think things through. I chose blogging as the format for this type of writing because I was not yet ready to share myself with my real world. The idea of anonymously putting myself out there seemed so…