Daily writing promptHow has technology changed your job?View all responses I retired from my dream job as a college professor because the college's policy on AI destroyed the reason for learning beyond high school. I once told a student who complained about the level of work in my course that the product that I was... Continue Reading →
To Be Viewed as a Life-Changer is the Epitome of Compliments
Daily writing promptWhat was the best compliment you've received?View all responses Many students come and go each semester, but as a retired professor, some stay in your heart. One person I remember had a difficult life situation, and she didn't actually believe that she could complete the work I assigned. She came to see me,... Continue Reading →
Help From Heaven is My Blog Name and My Testimony
Daily writing promptYou're writing your autobiography. What's your opening sentence?View all responses If I wrote my autobiography, Help from Heaven: Evidence of God's Love, the opening sentence would be: "I should have been dead, but the Lord had other plans for my life." I am astounded at the miracles in my life, and I don't... Continue Reading →
Poverty Teaches You that You Can Live Without a Lot of Things
Daily writing promptWhat are three objects you couldn't live without?View all responses I love books, so maybe it would be sad to live without them, but I would survive the loss. Even though I try to remember my smartphone when I leave the house, I find that I can go days without thinking of it,... Continue Reading →
Learning the Hard Way that Stealing is Stupid!
Daily writing promptHave you ever unintentionally broken the law?View all responses I might have been ten years old, and my aunt sent me to the store for snuff. We were poor, so there were no sweets, except for once and a while having blackberry cobbler from the blackberries that my cousin, my sister, and I... Continue Reading →
Remember First to Say Thank You for Miracles!
Daily writing promptYou get some great, amazingly fantastic news. What’s the first thing you do?View all responses The most fantastic news I received was 50 years ago when I learned during my fourth pregnancy that I would likely carry to full-term. My first thought was to thank God for hearing my prayers to become a... Continue Reading →
You Can’t Burn a Salad!
Daily writing promptWhat’s your favorite thing to cook?View all responses The only thing I cook besides eggs and bacon for breakfast is a salad. I am a cooking-challenged female, and I am not ashamed to admit that it is not a skill I was blessed to possess. I can do math, earn As in my... Continue Reading →
Riding a Bicycle Shouldn’t Be Too Hard, Right?
Daily writing promptWhat’s the thing you’re most scared to do? What would it take to get you to do it?View all responses When my husband and I went to Barbados in 2021 to visit his four kids who had moved there after Covid-19 hit, he bicycled around the island on an electric bicycle with his... Continue Reading →
Football as a Women’s Sport, Too. Who Would Have Thought It?!
Daily writing promptWhat are your favorite sports to watch and play?View all responses I wanted to play football when I was a young girl, but no one would let me play with the boys in the neighborhood. The Christmas when I was twelve, I asked for a football outfit with pads for Christmas, and I... Continue Reading →
I Wish for the Days Before Social Media
Daily writing promptIf you could un-invent something, what would it be? View all responses Don't get me wrong! There are some redeeming qualities to social media, but what is bad about it outweighs its benefits to the world. Yes, people have always been ugly to others and bullied those they believed less than or inferior.... Continue Reading →
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