Today’s prompt was to talk about something or someone who inspires me… I have participated in the Ultimate Blogging Challenge for at least ten years now, and I have learned so much about blogging, creativity, and myself along the way. This challenge has been such a gift to me. I have never really talked about
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Today’s prompt from the Ultimate Blogging Challenge was to share some song lyrics that I live by. The song lyrics that I’m sharing come from “Les Miserables,” with music by Claude-Michel Schönberg, lyrics by Alain Boublil, and book by both Schönberg and Boublil. I always had many insecurities about my abilities and about my appearance.
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Today’s prompt in the Ultimate Blogging Challenge is to talk about a favorite superhero from childhood. All of the questions about the superhero are phrased in the past tense. My favorite superhero, however, was and is Batman. That has not changed because, in the world, we need Batman now more than ever. It was the
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Today’s prompt was to start a conversation. Or to have you ask questions. Something like that. Here is my question for you: How do you best like to express creativity? There are many outlets for that. Drawing, painting, baking, crocheting, knitting, latch hook, dancing, playing an instrument, baking, etc? Please let me know what type
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Today’s prompt from the Ultimate Blogging Challenge was to talk about a place I would like to visit. In true Alice fashion, I couldn’t pick just one place, so I chose a few where I would be likely to see spectacular birds. Since I’ve never been to any of the places that I’m mentioning, I’m
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About a year and a half ago, I started making an afghan. I chose to make small squares, and I thought that this would be a quick process. (insert the sound of a buzzer). As it turns out, I couldn’t have been more wrong. This afghan requires more than 200 small squares, and I am
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It’s (almost) Wordless Wednesday. So, I am sharing some lovely autumnal images with you. What do you like best about autumn? How do you experience it where you live?
On September 10th, John “Joe” Synakowski passed away at the age of 96. My friend Mary Cooke, who was with him when he passed away, said that one of the last things he said was, “I had a good life.” Indeed he did, and Joe made an impression on a community that will never be
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Today’s blogging prompt is to talk about some way in which I stumbled. Today, I’m going toshare the story about how I managed to stumble dramatically out of a raft during a whitewater rafting trip in Letchworth State Park and, then, to bizarrely think that I had died and was on my way across the
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In the past four months or so, I have discovered the joy of collage. It’s a great way to preserve images without having stacks of magazines, brochures, etc., taking up space in your home. The fun of collage is combining similar images to create a theme or somewhat different images to tell a story. It