Think back about …

Pain

Surely we’ve all had pain in our lives — both physical and mental. By definition pain is an unpleasant sensory or emotional experience associated with actual or potential damage to one’s bodily or mental health.  And because pain is an individual and completely subjective experience, no two people respond or tolerate it in the same way. What kind of pain — either physical or emotional — have you endured? Was it alleviated? If so, how? Think back about Pain and share forward!

Stories on This Week's Writing Prompt

MOTHERF-
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There, we learn profanity before we learn of the adventures of Dick and Jane. Letting fly a string of curses when angry or [...]
You Know You’re Getting Old When Pain Becomes Your Best Friend
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Alright, alright alright, let’s talk about pain. You know, that delightful little companion that shows up uninvited and [...]
Organ Recitals
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My friends and I often engage in organ recitals — Not the musical type but rather what is hurting today and can it be fixed.
Sciatica
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Sciatica Altho I’ve borne a child I can’t say I’ve experienced the pain of childbirth.   Early in my labor the doctor [...]
Migraine
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Migraine I must have been 11 or 12 the first time it hit me. I was sitting in the back seat with my friend Paula as her [...]

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Simple Gifts
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He gave me all kinds of intangible gifts. As I wrote in Dude – A Message of Love, I knew Dude Stephenson virtually my whole [...]
Prompted By Gifts
December 14, 2018
Reefer Madness: An Early Encounter with Anti-Weed Hysteria
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My marijuana story starts with a woman named Martha Lupton Schneidewind. She was my high school journalism teacher in West [...]
Prompted By Drugs and Alcohol
January 8, 2018

Think back about …

Pain

Surely we’ve all had pain in our lives — both physical and mental. By definition pain is an unpleasant sensory or emotional experience associated with actual or potential damage to one’s bodily or mental health.  And because pain is an individual and completely subjective experience, no two people respond or tolerate it in the same way. What kind of pain — either physical or emotional — have you endured? Was it alleviated? If so, how? Think back about Pain and share forward!

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