
“Money tree.” Susy spoke the words slowly as if trying to teach someone to speak for the first time. “You don’t believe in such thing, do you?”
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“Money tree.” Susy spoke the words slowly as if trying to teach someone to speak for the first time. “You don’t believe in such thing, do you?”
Continue reading “#Writephoto – Money Tree” →This week on Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #148, we’re challenged with the topic of Spots and Dots.
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Hands on his knees, the prince panted breathlessly. Boy, I must be more out of shape than I realized. He thought and glanced behind him proudly. He smiled. 10 miles hike, not bad for an out of shape guy.
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Continue reading “Share Your World – Week of May 10, 2021” →This week on Blogging insights – hosted by Tanya at Salted Caramel – asks:
Continue reading “Blogging Insights – Blogging During the “Thing”” →This week, for Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #147, Amy challenged everyone with the theme of garden.
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Would you rather be a super nice person and be depressed all your life, or be happy and a total *sshole? (Credit goes to Cyranny for this question, aired on one of her “Cyranny’s Quickies” posts.)
Continue reading “Share Your World – Week of May 3, 2021” →This week, for Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #146, Patti has challenged everyone to focus on the details.
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I have been called a lot of things – mean, impatient, stubborn – but zealous isn’t one of them and upon reflecting, I have come to feel I can be zealous sometimes but a lot of the times, that zealousness got masked for impatience.
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Whenever someone asks, “How do you pronounce your name?”, I would often tell them, “The ‘Y’ is silent and ‘lan’ is pronounced like Lana without the ‘a’ at the end.” Some will still say it wrong and it drives me absolutely off the wall. It really isn’t that hard.
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According to this website, when someone says, “Oh, you’re a xenodochial,” it means you’re someone who’s friendly to strangers. I didn’t even know this word existed. I looked it up on dictionary.com, no such word.
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Which would you rather throw away: Love or Money?
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For a naively optimistic person, I worry a lot and about lots of things.
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“I dreamt you were an ax murderer,” I told my mom once. I think I was around eight or nine. She had immigrated to the U.S and began calling me every weekend. She laughed and I could feel her rolling her eyes on the other end of the line. To this day, she still reminded me of what I said whenever I tell her I’ve written a good story.
Continue reading “#AtoZChallenge 2021 – I have a Vivid Imagination” →This week, on Lens-Artists Challenge #145, guest host Scillagrace challenged everyone with the topic of Getting to Know You.
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Some people are meant to lead. Some are meant to follow. I am and have always been a follower aka an underdog. I wrote about this in this 2016 post and nothing will ever change that, not my mom, not my aunt, not even Toastmasters.
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Having been raised by my mom and her family most of my life, I often call myself the black sheep of her family.
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