The exercise:
Write about: the code breaker.
May arrives tomorrow. Despite April feeling like the longest month ever, its ending still manages to come as a surprise.
Friday April 24th, 2020
The exercise:
Write four lines of prose that have something to do with: all eyes on me.
Write four lines of prose that have something to do with: all eyes on me.
Tuesday April 21st, 2020
The exercise:
Write two haiku about: Sherlock Holmes.
Started watching Sherlock on Netflix the other day. At least I'm making use of this time to finally watch shows I've had on my list for... let's just say a long time.
Write two haiku about: Sherlock Holmes.
Started watching Sherlock on Netflix the other day. At least I'm making use of this time to finally watch shows I've had on my list for... let's just say a long time.
Friday April 17th, 2020
The exercise:
Write four lines of prose about: the octopus.
Yesterday marked one month since I was last inside a building other than my house. I've always been a bit of a homebody, but this has been a bit much...
Thank goodness for mostly good weather, the backyard, and walks in the park with the boys.
Write four lines of prose about: the octopus.
Yesterday marked one month since I was last inside a building other than my house. I've always been a bit of a homebody, but this has been a bit much...
Thank goodness for mostly good weather, the backyard, and walks in the park with the boys.
Monday April 13th, 2020
The exercise:
Hindsight, the April edition.
Mine:
Serena was real classy for a Red Lobster waitress. That might seem like a mean qualifier, but it's the truth. In my experience, at least. I mean, the two other girls working that night were smoking and flipping through old issues of the National Enquirer and gabbing back and forth about how they would bag a Hemsworth if one of them would only come in for mozzarella cheesesticks.
And that's not even getting into Justina and Katrina, both of whom I dated in high school and both, as I later found out, waited tables at Red Lobster. At the same time. As I was dating both of them.
Yeah, that didn't turn out so well for me either.
Anyway. Back to Serena. Classy. All the way. She had a library card and even used it regularly. She liked watching travel shows and documentaries. She even taught me what birding was, which was a revolution for sure.
I think I did it again. One sec. I need to look that up... okay, yeah, I meant revelation.
She was the one that got me hooked on the idea of Tokyo, though it would take another year before I started working at TechMoe Bowls, the high tech company that would eventually send me to Japan to help establish a new chain of bowling alleys. Moe Mooney was the guy in charge and he paid me better than anyone ever had before. Or since, now that I...
Shoot, got distracted again. Right, Serena.
That night Dina walked out on who she thought was Curtis, Serena sat with me while I ate chicken fingers and fries and gave me so many free Cokes that I had to use the bathroom three times before I left (and then again in the bushes on the way home).
She was real sweet with me that night, and even gave me her number so that I could call her the next day. And I was smitten, there's no denying it. Why wouldn't I be with a girl like that?
I mean, how was I supposed to know about her, uh, tendency towards burning things? And no, her putting lit birthday candles on each of my chicken fingers - when it very much was not my birthday - was not a tell, okay?
Hindsight, the April edition.
Mine:
Serena was real classy for a Red Lobster waitress. That might seem like a mean qualifier, but it's the truth. In my experience, at least. I mean, the two other girls working that night were smoking and flipping through old issues of the National Enquirer and gabbing back and forth about how they would bag a Hemsworth if one of them would only come in for mozzarella cheesesticks.
And that's not even getting into Justina and Katrina, both of whom I dated in high school and both, as I later found out, waited tables at Red Lobster. At the same time. As I was dating both of them.
Yeah, that didn't turn out so well for me either.
Anyway. Back to Serena. Classy. All the way. She had a library card and even used it regularly. She liked watching travel shows and documentaries. She even taught me what birding was, which was a revolution for sure.
I think I did it again. One sec. I need to look that up... okay, yeah, I meant revelation.
She was the one that got me hooked on the idea of Tokyo, though it would take another year before I started working at TechMoe Bowls, the high tech company that would eventually send me to Japan to help establish a new chain of bowling alleys. Moe Mooney was the guy in charge and he paid me better than anyone ever had before. Or since, now that I...
Shoot, got distracted again. Right, Serena.
That night Dina walked out on who she thought was Curtis, Serena sat with me while I ate chicken fingers and fries and gave me so many free Cokes that I had to use the bathroom three times before I left (and then again in the bushes on the way home).
She was real sweet with me that night, and even gave me her number so that I could call her the next day. And I was smitten, there's no denying it. Why wouldn't I be with a girl like that?
I mean, how was I supposed to know about her, uh, tendency towards burning things? And no, her putting lit birthday candles on each of my chicken fingers - when it very much was not my birthday - was not a tell, okay?
Sunday April 12th, 2020
The exercise:
Write about: two for one.
Well, we all survived, and mostly had a pretty good time doing so. Morning was mostly Easter, afternoon was mostly birthday.
Aiming for a return to Hindsight tomorrow, by the way. No, I haven't forgotten about it.
Write about: two for one.
Well, we all survived, and mostly had a pretty good time doing so. Morning was mostly Easter, afternoon was mostly birthday.
Aiming for a return to Hindsight tomorrow, by the way. No, I haven't forgotten about it.
Saturday April 11th, 2020
The exercise:
Write a four line poem about: four.
Miles turns four tomorrow, by the way. So it's a combined Easter and birthday celebration and I don't know how we're going to get either of the boys to sleep tomorrow night.
Write a four line poem about: four.
Miles turns four tomorrow, by the way. So it's a combined Easter and birthday celebration and I don't know how we're going to get either of the boys to sleep tomorrow night.
Thursday April 2nd, 2020
The exercise:
Write something to do with the idea that: hope springs eternal.
Write something to do with the idea that: hope springs eternal.
Wednesday April 1st, 2020
The exercise:
April, at last. Hopefully this will be a better month for our planet than the last few have been.
Write about: renewal.
April, at last. Hopefully this will be a better month for our planet than the last few have been.
Write about: renewal.
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