Category Archives: Miscellany
Scintilla13 Day 15
Tell the story of how you got the thing you are going to keep forever. Include an image in your post, if you can. This mug has never held a beverage. I was in college when I got it. I had been sick, quite sick for several days. Sick to the point of asking …
Scintilla13 Day 14
We exert control over ourselves and others in many ways. Talk about a time when you lost that control. This can go beyond the obvious emotional control into things like willpower, tidiness, self-discipline, physical prowess – any time that you felt your autonomy slipping away. I really can’t say my very autonomy has slipped away …
Scintilla13 Day 13
Post a photo of yourself from before age 10. Write about what you remember of the day the photo was taken. It may not be a full story—it may just be flashes of event and emotion—but tap into the child you were as much as you can. The above picture is of me somewhere …
Scintilla13 Day 11
Write about an experience you had that was so strange or incredible, it sounds like it could have been made up. When I was in my senior year of high school, my mother was driving us home one evening from somewhere. We traveled down US 15 in Maryland (something we don’t often do) and when we came …
Scintilla13 Day 10
Sometimes we wish that we could hit the rewind button. Talk about an experience that you would do over if you could. I’m not sure if by “rewind” and “do over” this prompt means something I would go back and change, or something that went so well I’d like to go back and experience again. …
