Prompt Answer: Youthful Item

Describe an item you were incredibly attached to as a youth. What became of it?

As a child, I had an obsession with Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There.

I had an illustrated, blue, hardbound version of the stories from the 1920s. I read it so often and was devastated when it went missing during a move.

I’ve got several copies of Alice nowadays, but I miss the copy I learned to read by.

Prompt Answer: Year I Was Born

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

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.