What is the greatest gift someone could give you? The greatest gift someone can give me is their time. Yes, material objects are lovely but finding the right one involves time so the real gift is the time. More importantly, someone spending time with me, focused time. Time without the distractions of the world, that … Continue reading Daily Prompt – January 4, 2026
Category: Musings
Cracker
Today’s prompt for the Xmas Magic challenge is “cracker”. This one honestly stumped me for a bit. My first thought was firecracker but that didn’t quite make sense that the children who put the list together would call them crackers instead of firecrackers or fireworks given that even in the UK where they live, fireworks … Continue reading Cracker
Daily Prompt – January 3, 2026
What colleges have you attended? For someone who failed out of college the first time, the list of colleges I’ve attended is remarkably long. I started at the University of Maryland Baltimore County when I was 18. I was a Biochemistry major. I was excited. I knew exactly what I wanted to do with my … Continue reading Daily Prompt – January 3, 2026
Daily Prompt – January 2, 2026
Do you play in your daily life? What says “playtime” to you? I try to play in my daily life. Some days thats easier than others. Life has a way of messing with best laid plans. Generally however, I try to stop all my stressful type work be that my actual job or school work … Continue reading Daily Prompt – January 2, 2026
Cold
Today’s prompt for the Xmas Magic challenge is Cold. I moved to Florida because I don’t like the cold, yet this week it has found me. It makes explaining the choice of picture for this project a bit easier however. I’m going to show the finished picture first then talk about why I chose it. … Continue reading Cold
Daily Prompt – January 1, 2026
What are your biggest challenges? Ok we are starting 2026 off with a heavy prompt. This reminds me of the interview question about weaknesses but how you are supposed to list positive traits. That never made sense to me. Anyway, challenges is a bit vague. Are we talking about things I struggle with personally? Professionally? … Continue reading Daily Prompt – January 1, 2026
Present
Today’s prompt for the Xmas Magic challenge was present. Now this is one of those tricky English words that has multiple meanings but given that the list was based on words children gave when asked what they thought of when they thought about Christmas and New Years, I’m going to go with the gift definition. … Continue reading Present
Daily Prompt – December 31, 2025
What makes you feel nostalgic? Nostalgia is an odd thing. It can be triggered by the most random moment or object. It’s really hard to pinpoint the things that make me nostalgic. For example, I recently did a wood burning project for the art challenge I’m participating in and looking at the graphite transfer paper … Continue reading Daily Prompt – December 31, 2025
Snowman
Today’s prompt for the Xmas Magic challenge was Snowman. Can’t build a real one here in Florida, we don’t get snow. I can however recreate the fun of doing so and that was the goal of today’s creative exercise. I have had in my arts and crafts cabinet for sometime now the majority of a … Continue reading Snowman
Daily Prompt – December 30, 2025
What relationships have a positive impact on you? This is another prompt where I had to stop my literal brain from responding and look at it from the larger perspective. My immediate read of the prompt had me wanting to list out every relationship I consider to have a positive impact but thats really more … Continue reading Daily Prompt – December 30, 2025
