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October Writing Prompt: Seeing From A Different Perspective
For October’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month, I ask you to look at the subject and write from a perspective entirely not your own. I want you to see something as you’ve never seen it before.
This month, I challenge you to write something from that new perspective.
Last Night She Reminded Me Why I Love to Read
This is the author who sparked my love of reading, and in turn she was the one who taught me that reading is writing, too!
Do you believe everything you read?
The relentless parade of images, articles and opinions about George Zimmerman shooting Trayvon Martin exhausts me. Mainly because, who cares? We keep talking but missing the real issues. We keep talking, but what are we going to do?
Why you should never use the word should
Last month, Jordan Oram and I had an incredibly inspiring conversation about collaboration and individual creativity. In the middle of this discussion, I told him of a frustrating experience I was having with a colleague.
“A person should know how to manage basic social interaction by the time they reach 35,” I told him.
In light of the bombing, just a bit of constructive criticism
The Boston bombing. The Newtown shooting. Rapes in India and Steubenville. These are the reactions. Numbness. What? Again? Anger. Who did this? Helplessness. I want to help. I don’t know what to do. Then there are the posts that make you think.
Do dead people breathe underground?
Not all parents choose to talk about death with our children when they’re young. We began the conversation when Lila was three.
A Little List of Dos and Don’ts for the Ladies
Want to know how to act so as to be proper and ladylike? You wouldn’t want to cause any trouble, would you?
A Meditation While Kneading Challah
Why did I spend an afternoon baking challah? To heal a sick child, of course. Why else would I do it?
Imagine his girlfriend was noticeably scarred.
Remember Murad Osmann? He’s the photographer lead around the world by his girlfriend. His photography and her body flowed relentlessly through all my social media streams. Why?
This is why we don’t we have a Men’s History Month?
Are women free to achieve whatever they desire? I say no. Not yet. There’s more work to be done.