Category: prompts
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My top 10 (fifteen) favorite movies
This is a entry I originally posted way back in 2014. It still holds up today. Fight Club – the great existentialist story of our time. A real man’s-man’s movie. This movie and book’s influence on me is evident by clicking here. Star Wars – my first true movie-love. Star…
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So I can breathe
A classmate of mine from my college days once said to “I write so I can breathe”. I always liked that sentiment: the idea that writing is like a reflex that is essential to life.
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Happiness is…
When I was in college, I had an educational psychology professor who would often say “feelings are“…
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How do you plan your goals?
when I do make plans and if the plans fall apart, I feel sense of chaos come over me.
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A toolbox, cash and a baby bag.
I have to admit that I was avoiding this topic; which is really ironic, considering that I earned my “emergency preparedness“ merit badge as a Boy Scout.
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Misogyny, bullying and woke
As an English teacher, words are what I do. So this kind of thing really grinds my gears…
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The first (and usually the only) responders
I’ll never understand why it took so long for term “first responders” to really enter our lexicon, but first responders are the workers that I admire most.
Rebuilding Rob 