Stories on This Week's Writing Prompt
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Jackie
The epitome of grace, class, and intelligence, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis was, from the time I was very young, my [...]
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Frances Perkins: A Woman I Admire
Frances Perkins, FDR’s Secretary of Labor for all twelve years of his administration, was the first female cabinet secretary [...]
Releasing Roots
Releasing Roots I pull out Mama’s earrings From the tangle of jewelry In the re-used coconut butter jar, Gently pressing [...]
My Mama
For my mama on her 67th Birthday My Mama taught me When I was 5 weeks old, my father was killed in a car accident, my mama [...]
“Polly; just Polly”
I was initially stumped by this week’s prompt. As with “betrayal,” I take the term “admire” [...]
Hillary
Hillary. Rodham. Clinton She has been a woman I admire since 1992. There is so much I could say about her, but like the [...]
Stories from the Previous Prompt
Betrayal
Betrayed by a Church
Ironically, being betrayed by a church led to the creation of an early childhood program based on values to which religious [...]
11th Birthday
My mother was still in a deep depression, too tranqed out on Miltowns to take care of me, much less plan a birthday party. [...]
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My first real apartment, not counting the college one with mean notes posted on the refrigerator to clean the bathroom and [...]
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Freedom with a Roof
Freedom with a Roof At age 18 in January of our Senior year in high school my boyfriend Mike and I were chomping at the bit [...]
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