Memory Writing Prompts – The Dentist
I’m posting this way late or way early, depending on how you look at it because I’m about to start taking some mind-altering pain numbing medication to prepare for the dental surgery in the morning....
View ArticleMemory Writing Prompts – Halloween
This week’s memory challenge is inspried by the fact that this week is Halloween. So I thought I’d try to see how many Halloween memories I could bring up to the surface. This one surprised me as I...
View ArticleMemory Writing Prompts – Vacations
I am on day 2 of LPC – Life Post Cubicle. It still feels like vacation which is about what I imagined. So I figured that would be a good post for this week’s memory challenge – vacations from...
View ArticleMemory Writing Prompts – Around the Block
I’m way overdue for posting and I know I missed last week’s memory challenge. I’m still in adjustment mode. But there’s still a bit of Tuesday left so let’s see what we can come up with for stepping...
View ArticleMemory Writing Prompts – Chores
When we lived with my grandmother chores were done on the same day every week. (so were meals). Ironing was always done on Mondays. I wasn’t very good at ironing but I begged until I was finally...
View ArticleMemory Writing Prompts – Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving is in just a few days so of course I figured this would be a good time to try to remember everything I could about Thanksgiving as a child. Since we lived with my grandmother it was always...
View ArticleMemory Writing Prompts – Going Shopping
At this holiday time of the year many people are racing around to malls or clicking like crazy online to complete their holiday shopping. Which led me to think about going shopping as a child and...
View ArticleMemory Writing Prompts – Telling Lies
The idea for this memory challenge was prompted by a recent experience on LinkedIn. This is a long intro but I have to write it out because it has been festering in me. I have, of late, been trying to...
View ArticleMemory Writing Prompts – Clothes
I have absolutely no idea where the inspiration for today’s memory challenge came from unless it is from the mountain of laundry waiting for my attention. How two people generate so many dirty clothes...
View ArticleMemory Writing Prompts – Teachers
No, I didn’t forget. Today’s memory challenge is inspired by the fact that I have recently made contact with one of my favorite teachers from high school, Mr. Foster. I had him for several years when I...
View ArticleMemory Writing Prompts – Your Childhood Bedroom, Take 2
Today’s memory challenge is about a place where many of us spend much time – the bedroom. In children’s books we often see a lot of scenes that take place in the main character’s bedroom so I thought I...
View ArticleMemory Writing Prompt – The Kitchen
Tuesday memory challenge Since last week was about remembering our childhood bedrooms I thought it only right to move to another important room in the house – the kitchen. The majority of my childhood...
View ArticleMemory Writing Prompt – Cold Weather
It’s been a wee bit cold here in California which made me think about the weather when I was a child. I’m thinking just cold, winter weather now. I remember that we had floor furnaces with big grates,...
View ArticleMemory Writing Prompt – Ice Cream
I have absolutely no idea where this idea came from but I have been thinking about ice cream today. So let’s use that for the memory prompt. As a child my favorite ice cream flavor was chocolate mint....
View ArticleMemory Writing Prompt – Learning to Drive
Okay, I do know that it is Wednesday and I missed Tuesday and the memory challenge but here it is….that all important rite of passage…the driver’s license. I didn’t get a lot of driving experience...
View ArticleMemory Writing Prompt – Imaginary Friends
This week’s memory challenge is inspired by a topic I have been thinking about a lot – friends. As a child I didn’t have a lot of very close friends….no matter what age. But I did have an imaginary...
View ArticleMemory Writing Prompt – Homework
Aha – this time I am getting my memory challenge post up before midnight. Whew! Today’s post is inspired by being busy…overwhelmingly wonderfuly busy doing the things I love to do, writing and teaching...
View ArticleMemory Writing Prompt – Money
This week’s memory challenge is inspired by the thought of money and how we got it as a child. When I was really young I thought money came from the dirt. No, really. Every few days we would walk to...
View ArticleMemory Writing Prompt – Clubs
Today’s memory challenge is inspired by my re-evaluating all the various clubs and organizations I’m involved in and trying to decide what works for me and what doesn’t. As yet, I don’t really have any...
View ArticleMemory Writing Prompt – Easter
Since we just had Easter dinner at our house I thought I would try to remember what Easter was like as a child. Easter baskets, of course, filled with jelly beans and a big hollow chocolate bunny. We...
View ArticleMemory Writing Prompt – Television
Today’s memory challenge is inspired by me being a total flake, at least for a little while, to watch some television. Which got me to remembering television as a child. A really young child. The two...
View ArticleMemory Writing Prompt – Dolls
When I was looking through the pictures that were already scanned to show Melodye one of my frilly dresses, I couldn’t find any. Well, I found some from the back when I did a series on my mother taking...
View ArticleMemory Writing Prompt – My First Prom
Since it is prom season I thought I’d take a trip back in time to the first prom I went to and see what I can remember. It was called a Sophomore Fling, I think. It was 1974 and I was going to Ygnacio...
View ArticleMemory Writing Prompt – Embarrassment & Disappointment
My current WIP has the main character doing a lot of self-reflection. Okay, it has a few characters doing a lot of self-reflection. And since I try to connect part of me to each of my important...
View ArticleWriting Prompt – Hair
Hair. I think I can safely say that my mom was obsessed with my hair while I was growing up. Every time she took a picture of me I would have to turn around so she could get a picture of my hair. It...
View ArticleWriting Prompt – In the summer time
When I was a very little kid, up until the time my grandfather died, summertime meant one thing – going out on the boat. My grandfather’s pride and joy was this Glasper Cabin Cruiser. After work on...
View ArticleWriting Prompt – Lunch
It’s almost lunchtime here so I figured that would be a good inspiration for this week’s memory challenge. It will come as no surprise to anyone who has gone out to eat with me to learn that I am a...
View ArticleWriting Prompt – Who Are the People in Your Neighborhood?
For this week’s memory challenge I’m trying to remember the various neighbors on my block. Next door on one side, when I was very young, was an old woman named Jenny. Jenny made the best congo bars, a...
View ArticleWriting Prompt – Ice Cream, Again
It’s summer time and the living is, well, hot around here. Heat makes me think of cold makes me think of ice cream. So today’s memory challenge is ice cream from childhood. The strongest memory I have...
View ArticleWriting Prompt – Saying Goodbye
It’s hard to believe but it has been a year of doing the memory prompt writing challenges. I think I have come to the end, not of mining my childhood memories but of promising myself I would post one...
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