by Eileen | Nov 7, 2022 | Writing prompts
Everyone is a customer for somebody or a supplier to somebody. — W. Edwards Deming It’s easy to think of a grocery store as just a place where you go to get food, but your grocery store is also a customer. You may be making mad dash to score some BBQ (or...
by Eileen | Oct 17, 2022 | Writing prompts
That’s where they used to string up thieves who felt ‘fine’. — John Bridger The main thrust of the opening scenes of 2003 version of The Italian Job is the danger of getting complacent, of losing the minor sense of unease that keeps us sharp....
by Eileen | Oct 10, 2022 | Writing prompts
Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate. ― Thomas Aquinas How many times have you been lost in reading and come across an absolute kicker of a sentence, one that makes you stop in your tracks and...
by Eileen | Oct 2, 2022 | Writing prompts
Advice in old age is foolish. For what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach our journey’s end? — Marcus Tullius Cicero How often do you ask for advice? How often do you give it? Do you always wait to be asked or...
by Eileen | Sep 18, 2022 | Writing prompts
Keep Austin Weird — Red Wassenich, 2000, while pledging to an Austin radio station Depending on circumstances and expectations, being different can be a blessing or a curse. Extra tall or super short? Life can be a bit of a challenge when clothes shopping,...
by Eileen | Sep 12, 2022 | Writing prompts
In my dreams, I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield. — Publilius Syrus I’m currently recovering (Please let me be recovering- I am soooo done with this) from Covid. Being single and sick is...
