Prompt Answer: Book I’m Reading Right Now

November 18, 2023 ~ Theodora Vanyar ~ Leave a comment

What book are you reading right now?

I’m reading The Girl Who Chased the Moon by Sarah Addison Allen.

She’s one of my favorite authors of what I would consider soft urban fantasy and/or feminine fiction. It’s not hard core or gritty; no leather clad ménage à trois sex scenes or obsessive vampires. But soft magics found in the ordinary world. Characters who are wisened crones that give away little every day objects or women with broken hearts that bake cakes to call loved ones home.

Much like another favorite author of mine, fellow Jew Alice Hoffman, Sarah Addison Allen likes making magic part of the every day.

I recommend her books.

Prompt Answer: Live Anywhere

November 17, 2023 ~ Theodora Vanyar ~ Leave a comment

If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be?

If I could live anywhere in the world, it would be somewhere with all four seasons, in a cozy home with enough bookshelves for all my knickknacks and books and random shiny objects. Ideally, it’s a place with a red, Dutch-style front door and enough windows for a cat or two to find a sunbeam.

Prompt Answer: Found and Kept

November 16, 2023 ~ Theodora Vanyar ~ Leave a comment

What’s the coolest thing you’ve ever found (and kept)?

My chosen family.

Prompt Answer: Routine

November 15, 2023 ~ Theodora Vanyar ~ Leave a comment

What part of your routine do you always try to skip if you can?

Wearing socks during non-winter months. I have flats, so it’s not the end of the world if I do, but yeah. I hate putting socks on in warm months.

Prompt Answer: Pets

November 13, 2023 ~ Theodora Vanyar ~ Leave a comment

What is good about having a pet?

For me, my cat Spock depending on me to take care of him has gotten me through some pretty dark times.

Prompt Answer: School Subject

November 10, 2023 ~ Theodora Vanyar ~ Leave a comment

What was your favorite subject in school?

My favorite subject in school was history. I wanted to major in Pre-Colombian American History in college, but that fell by the wayside. I’m still four classes short of my AA; hopefully some day I can go back to college and finish my degree.

Prompt Answer: Time

November 8, 2023 ~ Theodora Vanyar ~ 1 Comment

Do you need time?

In a word: always.

More time to sleep. More time to focus on my mental health. More time to be creative and write or draw or crochet.

I always need more time.

Prompt Answer: Three Wishes

October 31, 2023 ~ Theodora Vanyar ~ 2 Comments

You have three magic genie wishes, what are you asking for?

1) A tiny house built to my specifications that no one can ever take away from me.

2) Financial stability

3) A day without any pain. Just one. Just so I know how it feels.

Prompt Answer: Family Member

October 30, 2023 ~ Theodora Vanyar ~ Leave a comment

Describe a family member.

Larger than life, with a contagious laugh and a heart both big and weak. My dad was an amazing, flawed human. He was six foot, blue eyed, and a fantastic cook. He did nothing in moderation, at all. A self-proclaimed hedonist and a Toastmaster.

Prompt Answer: Exercise

October 29, 2023 ~ Theodora Vanyar ~ Leave a comment

What is your favorite form of physical exercise?

I’m always down for a good wander, a good walk or something. Maybe a bicycle ride, but I’ve not been on anything but a stationary bike for over a decade.

Prompt Answer: The Moon

October 28, 2023 ~ Theodora Vanyar ~ Leave a comment

How much would you pay to go to the moon?

I don’t know that I would go to the moon, if given the opportunity. I’ve got brain gremlins, mental health struggles, and am store-bought neurotransmitter/serotonin dependent as well as insulin resistant.

That makes for a miserable time between leaving Earth, landing on the moon, and then the trip back. Especially when I would have access to yeet myself out an airlock.

All in all, it would be hell… probably.

So, nothing. If I could go for free, with enough meds to get there and back, and enough yarn to crochet on the journey, I’d go.

Answer Prompt: Specialty

October 26, 2023 ~ Theodora Vanyar ~ Leave a comment

What food would you say is your specialty?

Sadly, for my lactose intolerant partner, my two main specialties are Alfredo sauce and sausage and cheese stuffed shell.

Prompt Answer: Historical Events

October 25, 2023 ~ Theodora Vanyar ~ Leave a comment

What major historical events do you remember?

Hmmm.

Most of my memories are either of the 90s or the twenty-teens. The aughts, from about 1999 to 2009, are a blur of homelessness and transient living.

The first few that come to mind are:

Oklahoma City Bombing, 9/11 and the clusterfuck of racism that followed, Columbine, the Soviet Union being dissolved (had a Communist in the family), the horrors in Rwanda… Clinton getting elected twice and his little tussle with being improper. Y2K and all that…

Oh! Hurricane Andrew! 1992 was the year and I lived in Tamarac, Florida. I learned to play rummy and backgammon with four generations of women in my great Grandmother’s house as the storm roared overhead.

Lots of little things that might not have made the memories of others.