Category: Writing

Prompt Answer: Year I Was Born

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Share what you know about the year you were born.

Share about what I know about the year I was born? Uh… my mom was juggling lovers to the point of confusion on my parental unit for at least three decades.

Life was good for my parents. They weren’t in a relationship. They were friends. I’m glad for that at least. But my mom and the guy we thought was my dad were on the rocks, with my not-dad choosing a girlfriend over my pregnant mother.

Oh and that he got the number of the nurse in the delivery room.

I know that The Goonies were popular. And Gorbachev came to power. Beyond that, I don’t recall.

Prompt Answer: Life A Year Ago

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Is your life today what you pictured a year ago?

Hell no it’s not. It’s not anything like I thought things would be like this time last year.

Not in a bad way.M, but it is very different than my priorly-assumed professional and personal trajectory than where I thought I’d be.

I’m not sure where 2024 will take me.

Prompt Answer: Eating Meat

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What are your feelings about eating meat?

I’m a recovered vegetarian who was raised in a quasi-occasionally kosher household. It’s weird in my life.

Anyway, I don’t mind eating some meat. Poultry, bison, deer, beef, pork in many forms, that’s all good. Fish… I’m a little more wobbly on.

Shellfish hates me, like sea bugs (shrimp). But I love clam chowder?

So. If it’s meaty, it’s eat-y to me. I’ll try anything once that will not try to kill me.