Author Archive: tyunglebower

23 Characters

Day Nine Scintilla Prompt: Write a list of 23. That sounded simple enough at first. Until I realized my first few ideas would require quite a bit more time than I have to come up with 23 entries. Then I thought I had a winner-23 songs I’ve always wanted to sing live. Once I started …

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The Days of Change and Promise.

Scintilla Bonus Prompt: What is it that you’re sure you’ll never forget about being this age? We all have epochs and eras in our lives. Despite the fact that on some fundamental level I have felt the same at every age, (weird, I know) I am no exception to this tendency. And I am in …

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Temper, Temper

Scintilla Bonus Weekend Prompt: Talk about a time when you lost your temper. I suppose I can at times, have a bit of a temper. And when I lose it, it is often not a pretty site. I am very much in disagreement with those who say the simple act of losing one’s temper or …

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4 Simple Pleasures.

Scintilla Day 8: What are your simplest pleasures? Go beyond description and into showing the experience of each indulgence.  1) Eating out. I don’t even mean it has to be someplace fancy, though that has pleasures all its own as well. But the very act of leaving home to sit down somewhere else while other people prepare your …

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Charles Elwood Unglebower

Scintilla Day 7: Talk about a time when you saw your mother or father as a person independent of his or her identity as your parent. Most people in childhood see their parents as super human. But for me it was different and in a sense much worse. Because when I was a child, my father, Charles …

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