117. Beach Inspired: What’s not to write about the beach? Growing up, the closest beach was Newport or Huntington but my parents didn’t take us to the beach past my third birthday. My opportunities to go to the beach were with friend’s families or on school trips. Once my sister got her driver’s license, my […]
116. All Saints: Choose a saint and create a poem about his or her life. We “honor” saints for their holidays yet the stories we’re told about why we celebrate them is not really their story. Valentine, Patrick, and Nicholas have their days and when we’re young, we’re told one story about them and when
115. Black and Blue: Write about a time you’ve been physically hurt. Soon after I was installed as a fresh-faced Clubmate in Saipan, a tropical storm rolled over the island. Most of the other Clubmates were recent college graduates wrapped in youth invincibility delusion, so my comrades who weren’t working piled into a jeepney to
114. Neighbors: Make up a story or poem about your next door neighbor. Our neighbor is a 30-something woman who says her career is in customer service and I guess she gets to work from home because I never see her leave the house at commuting time. She has a constant stream of highly attractive
113. Staircase: Use a photo of a staircase or the stairs in your home or a building you love to inspire you. Tiktok creator Emlyn Pearce says his friend thinks of stairs as a bunch of tiny little floors all bunched together and maybe they want to be real floors but they become these kind of
