Author name: jade

Challenge Day 357

357. Gamble: Be inspired by a casino or lottery ticket. My first trip to Las Vegas was New Years after I turned 21. As a college senior, I was auditing a graduate level statistics class in preparation for grad school and we had just finished our unit on probability. This knowledge is not what you want […]

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Challenge Day 356

356. Anniversary: Write about the anniversary of a special date. Although my memory is failing, I do remember certain dates often related to first dates, birthdays, death dates, first or last times i did something. These dates are touchstones in life to calibrate where my life is and how I feel or have progressed since

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Galapagos

December 13-20, 2023 My “roman empire” is evolution. This is a topic that my mind thinks deeply about when I can’t sleep and when I am visiting a museum. As Darwin traveled on “The Beagle”, he began looking at his surroundings with a critical eye and began to question how and why life was the

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Challenge Day 355

355. Spellbound: Write about a witch’s spell. I had heard about Harry Potter stories but didn’t know much about them except that they were wildly popular. In 2003, returning from my Hawaiian 40th birthday trip, daughter purchased book 1 at the airport and read it on the way home. She was hooked and began consuming

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Challenge Day 354

354. Turning Point: Write about a point in life where things turned for the better or worse. The depression that rooted in the pandemic lifted 3+ years later on my 60th birthday while in Tanzania, Africa. I have had depression that lasted longer but this bout was a tug-of-war struggle on all fronts. Before my

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