Category: prompts
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The color yellow
Fear is an amazing emotion. Like so many other things in life, it can be a good thing in limited doses, but paralyzing when allowed to run amok. Fear can protect us from danger. But if we allow fear to overwhelm us, it can completely stop us in our tracks.
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That Which Grinds My Gears
What do you complain about the most? Without a doubt, the thing I complain about more than anything else is politics. I make my political views pretty clear on this blog. The political party I probably most closely in line myself with is the Democrats. I’ve never voted for a…
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From prepubescent jocks to middle-aged, armchair quarterbacks
Growing up as a kid, we played sports in my neighborhood year-round: Baseball, football, basketball, soccer, we dabbled in a little bit of hockey.
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If I had a few hundred million dollars…
Wow, this is one I almost don’t even like to think about, out of fear of getting too caught up in the fantasy.
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Rob’s Book Club
There’s a lot of books that I want to read. Almost more than that, there are several books that I have started reading that I would like to finish. So here’s a small sampling of books that are on my shelf, as well as books that are in my Amazon…
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It’s not a bad little tree…
I feel like this prompt has been done before, and I’m only going to write about one particular family tradition. It’s not one from my immediate family growing up; but rather a tradition of MY family; namely Kid 1, Kid 2 and I.
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Writing vs. Living
Back in October, when we were prompted with the question “What are you Currently working on?”. As you can guess by the fact that I’m doing this every day now, you can probably conclude that I like to blog most in my leisure time.
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The Mackinac Island Virgin
In spite of being back in Michigan for almost 12 years, I have still never made it to Mackinac Island.
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5 things I do for fun
as I’m only limited to five things, this list is nowhere near comprehensive; nor is it in any particular order. Below is just five things, off the top of my head, that I like to do for fun.
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Undying loyalty, reciprocated
I’ve written elsewhere on this blog about how I absolutely love the loyalty that dogs in particular show to their owners. All I want to do is reciprocate that loyalty in kind.