Tag: dailyprompt
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Knock Knock! Whoooo’s There?
What jobs have you had? One summer during college I worked in the Plaquemines Parish Clerk of Court’s office near my hometown. (Yes, parish. Louisiana is the only state in the US that has parishes instead of counties.) At the time, I was an English major on a pre-law track and the courthouse job seemed…
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All Nighters
Do you remember life before the internet? We were returning from the university cafeteria, stopping and chatting with everyone we knew on campus, which was just about everyone, headed back to the sorority dorm at my small state college. Looking at us (we always traveled in a pack of 5-7 girls), you would think we…
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Fire and Ice, So So Nice
List your top 5 favorite fruits: pineapple, papaya, mango, cantaloupe, and honey dew melon! Read on to see why! Trigger Warning: this essay is about 9/11 and a trip I took a month after it happened. The morning of 9/11, as normal, I dropped my girls off at school and headed to my office where…
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The Second Mrs. de Winter, to be or not to be?
If you could be a character from a book or film, who would you be? Why? As an avid reader my whole life, I have many “favorite books” and the list of the top ten continues to change and evolve over the decades and years of my reading life. The same 2 or 3 titles…
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Je parle un peu français, mais pas très bien!
What’s a secret skill or ability you have or wish you had? The French language and I have been at odds for years, decades even. I took French in high school, but I have no memory of it. I don’t even remember who my teacher was or who was in my class. In fact, did…
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Giggling My Way Out of Trouble
Have you ever unintentionally broken the law? A very long time ago in a small town very far away I was working as a paralegal in a small real estate company. Unfortunately the salary wasn’t quite enough to allow me to live on my own. So, in order to be able to rent an apartment…
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So many books…so little time…
What books do you want to read? Help me pick out my next book to read! I’m on a roll. I just finished my 6th book of the year and I still have a few days of January left to cram in another one. Here’s the top ten—a small portion—of my TBR list. Take a…
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Fits Me to a Tea
What’s your dream job? Lucky me, I married into a Louisiana restaurant family, and even better, a family who owned a restaurant I had been patronizing long before I met my husband. After we became a couple, I was allowed “in the back” as we always entered through the screen door to the kitchen. The…
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He’s not a Westie, but …
What is your favorite animal? I was a cat person my entire life, and had owned multiple Persian cats for decades, until a Catholic nun needed to rehome her beloved 4-year-old dog in 2011. Mutual friends—who knew how badly I had always wanted a Westie (to mark my mother’s Scottish heritage)—connected me with Sister Marie,…
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Sedentary Should Be Secondary!
What are your biggest challenges? Like quite a few people I suspect, I “follow” a lot of fitness routines on social media. Tai Chi. Chair Yoga. Asian Pilates. Japanese Walking. Chinese Baduanjin. Shaolin. Couch to Fitness. And then there are the fitness instructors/influencers. Justin Agustin. Grow Young Fitness with Deron Buboltz. Align with Wellness with…
Michelle Blanchard Ardillo 