Today’s prompt from the Ultimate Blogging Challenge is to talk about my favorite number and why that number is my favorite. My favorite number is nine. It’s a magical number. If you multiply anything by nine (except for zero, which eats all numbers), with the result always being zero), the answer will either add up […]
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Today’s prompt was to answer questions that you, my wonderful readers, ask over and over again. I have to admit that no one has asked questions, but several readers have expressed a fondness for Bearnacle Bear and his friends. So, today, I am going to tell you how the steam punk bear became mangled. One
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Today’s prompt from the Ultimate Blogging Challenge is to share personal photos from my latest traveling adventure. In February, I traveled to Florida with friends, where we spent five days exploring, collecting seashells, and watching the sun set over the Gulf of Mexico. Watching the sun vanishing beneath the horizon felt beautiful and magical. The
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Today’s prompt from the Ultimate Blogging Challenge is to post a top ten list Drawing with pen and ink has been something that it has taken me some time to like. It wasn’t an immediate “I love you moment” as far as art mediums are concerned. Once I understood that I could make my initial
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Today’s prompt from the Ultimate Blogging Challenge is to talk about what or who inspires you. One of the things that I do as a community journalist is to interview some very interesting people, who share their stories with me. Their stories are incredible, and I am so grateful that they trust me to share
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Today’s prompt is to share a video from YouTube and to write a few sentences about why I’m sharing that particular video. A few sentences? Maybe a few more than a few? I am a bit loquacious. Isn’t that a cool word? It means garrolous, prolix, and verbose. Why use five words when I can
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Today’s Ultimate Blogging Challenge prompt is to write about something that is fun. “What do I do in my personal or professional life that’s fun?” I enjoy anything that gives me a chance to escape the frustrations of daily life and helps me to reach beyond myself. One thing that I do is to participate
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Today’s Ultimate Blogging Challenge prompt is to talk about a valuable lesson that I learned that helped me overcome a challenge. When I was in school, I really struggled with physical education. I was in a class with kids who were at my grade level. But it felt as if I were in a class
Today’s Ultimate Blogging Challenge prompt is to teach something. What I am going to teach you how to do is to draw a fanciful bear in color. In the past, I have had wonderful instruction in drawing animals from Western New York artist Nikki Milley. I have been practicing many of the techniques that she
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Today is Independence Day for the United States, and it makes me think… In 2001, just after 9/11, we were lost and confused And we hugged each other and prayed with each other And we were there for each other. When U.S. airspace was closed and the skies were silent Our neighbors in Canada provided
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