Daily Prompts
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Being Unbothered
I know I answered this prompt a few days ago, but as I was reading it…
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More Than a Moment
Tell us about the last thing you got excited about. There are moments in life when…
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Fragile & Infinite
What do you enjoy most about writing? What I enjoy most about writing is the way…
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The Goodness of Where I Am
When people ask me what I love about where I live, I often pause before answering.…
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Why Gratitude Changes Everything
If you ask me what positive emotion visits me most often, I wouldn’t say joy, because…
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My Kind of Emergency Plan
We like to believe we’ll see it coming—the storm, the quake, the moment everything shifts under…
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LIVE A LIFE YOU WILL REMEMBER
Two nights in a row, the world outside slipped into dreams while I stepped into the…
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The Kind of Change I Hope to Make
I’ve been thinking about this question a lot lately—“What change, big or small, would you like…
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I nourished the part of myself that had been hungry for home.
I nourished the part of myself that had been hungry for home. I’ve spent money on…
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The Boy and the River—and the Things We Return too Late
Inspired by the true story of a children’s book returned to Torrington Library after 49 years…
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The Beauty of Ordinary Moments
A quiet reflection on real happiness, the beauty of ordinary moments, and learning to notice joy…
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An Evening Walk Through Smestow Valley
joy in small things Daily Prompt After a soul-satisfying Italian lunch at Fiume, my partner and…
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Curious About the Unsaid
What are you curious about? There’s a certain kind of question that lingers longer than expected.…
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The Last Visit
There are small kindnesses we offer in the everyday—blankets tucked over knees, water sipped through a…
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When Grief Looms, Send Blooms
Was today typical? After waking up from a night shift, blurry-eyed and caught between two worlds—the…
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I Exist in the And
That question used to make me uncomfortable. Not because I didn’t know who I was—but because…
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The Traditions That Faded, and the Love That Stayed
What I Let Go—and What Found Another Way to Stay Alive To be Filipino is to…
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Two Tickets, Two Homes: If I Could Fly Anywhere
If I won two plane tickets—just two—I wouldn’t spend hours debating where to go. I already…
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Each name lives in a different room of my life.
I’ve always believed that the names we carry are more than just words spoken out loud—they…
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Read Me Slowly: A Self-Portrait
There’s a peculiar kind of stillness that happens in the moments between question and answer—like the…
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Play Is Not a Luxury
I’ve always been quietly fascinated by the instinctive ways we retreat when the world begins to…
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What Foods Would You Like to Make?
If you asked me what foods I’d like to make, I wouldn’t give you a list…
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Certainties: The Kind That Break & Save You
List 10 things you know to be absolutely certain. I was asked to list 10 things…
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Optimistic October – 2021: RECHARGE
A pause. A soft space in the middle of life’s demands. The most important thing on…
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OPTIMISTIC OCTOBER — 2021: FAITH
His presence remains constant Right now, no matter what tribulations we find ourselves walking through—no matter…
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