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June 26, 2025
Thursday Doors: More From Sara’s Spain
#ThursdayDoors #writingprompt Here are more doors from Sara. These come from the town of Penafiel. And, below, my favorite. She says it’s her favorite, too. A WRITING PROMPT FROM ME TO YOU: A very old door that looks its age. MA
June 24, 2025
Food Tuesday: Truth In Tteok
#FoodTuesday #writingprompt #4 Daughter and I have obsessed over the one-season KOREAN ODYSSEY, a modern-day take on JOURNEY TO THE WEST (I’m looking at you, Sun Wukong). In it, a dish called tteokbokki is often eaten as comfort food. So, when Sara found some at…
June 23, 2025
Monday Recommends and Nail Art: Water and Fire
#MondayRecommends #NailArt #nails #Maniology #HelloManiology #ManiologyAmbassador #MomGoth10discountcode #writingprompt This strainer is what my grandpa called “a handy little gadget”. It’s billed as a Japanese style rice strainer, but I use it for tons o’ stuff. Pasta, natch. Also salads that tend to get liquid in…
June 21, 2025
Caturday: Adi On Guard
Hewwo. Um, I’m Adi, okay? EverMom closed de window to de catio because it’s really really hot an really really hoomid. We’re sad. I had to go back to my baffroom places, like in de cabinet unner de sink. An de shower unner de towel…
June 19, 2025
Thursday Doors: More Sara In Spain
#ThursdayDoors #writingprompt Sara says these pictures are from a village near the one where they stayed, but she didn’t write the name down in her journal. She says arches count as doors. And my favorite: More Spain to come. A WRITING PROMPT FROM ME TO…
June 17, 2025
Food Tuesday: 5, Yuck – 75, Yum
#FoodTuesday #writingprompt From the Department of Things I Loathed When I Was Young But Love Now, ladies and gentlemen and those who identify however they damn well want to identify, I bring you: Stewed Tomatoes. Looks a bit yucky, because I forgot to take picture…
June 16, 2025
Monday Recommends and Nail Art: Sweet News and Salty Nails
#MondayRecommends #NailArt #nails #Maniology #HelloManiology #ManiologyAmbassador #MomGoth10discountcode #writingprompt One of my favorite accounts to follow on Instagram is Jenn, That Good News Girl. Happily for those who don’t have Instagram, she’s also on YouTube. Most of her videos (the ones my algorithm serves me, anyway)…
June 14, 2025
Caturday: Chickie is SO GOOD!
#Caturday #cats #catsofinstagram #cats_of_instagram #blackandwhitecats #Chickie #MamzelleChickieLaSilk HELLO! My name is CHICKIE! Whew! I’m glad Story-A-Day May is over. Making up stories is hard! Telling the truth is a lot easier. Mommy got some imjections the other day, one for measles and one for shingles.…
June 12, 2025
Thursday Doors: Sara in Spain
#ThursdayDoors #writingprompt Here are some more pictures from Sara from her field school trip to Spain. The first three are from Madrid. “The arches of the Temple of Debod, a 2nd century BCE Egyptian temple that was gifted to Spain after the Spanish government helped…
June 10, 2025
Food Tuesday: The End of the Chicken
#FoodTuesday #cookingwithleftovers #recipe #SortOf #writingprompt So I bought a whole chicken from the farmers market. A dead, frozen chicken, not a live one. I like having live chickens, even though they’re a lot of work and I might as well buy a dead one because…
