Suprise Me

I Laugh At Aging Because It Is FREE! by
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Prompted By Aging

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I won a prize for getting older – atrophy. I can sneeze and pee at the same time! I will not laughing as I get older because I know I will grow old when I stop laughing. I may only be young once but I’m pretty sure I can be immature indefinitely.
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Young Stylemaker by
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(26 Stories)

Prompted By What We Wore

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It was a time of experimentation and self-expression, and self-express we did.
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Conversations with my old man by
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(170 Stories)

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He never talked to me about girls or women or sex or marriage...
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Windows by
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(7 Stories)

Prompted By Home

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I could not believe that something as tangible as carpentry could require that you deal with abstractions like five sixteenths or nine thirty-seconds.
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The Lotus and the Schoolboy by
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(170 Stories)

Prompted By Temptation

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I’ve never been big on sin. Sin belongs to a god thing full of good, evil, and punishment, straight-jacketing people with shame, and excommunicating so many nice things. Regardless of my godless stance, at age 11, I helped myself to three temptations. First, I sought out pictures of naked women in magazines, stolen from my…
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Woolly Bully by
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(302 Stories)

Prompted By Bullying

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What is bullying? I struggle with the term. Maybe it’s one of those “I know it when I see it” type of things. Stopbullying.gov, an official government website (it says so!), defines bullying as “unwanted, aggressive behavior among school aged children that involves a real or perceived power imbalance. . . . Bullying includes actions…
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Why Virginia Woolf Landed Me a Client by
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(194 Stories)

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The best college for you is the one that wants you to be there. ... choose the "wrong" major if it resonates with you.
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Gong Ceremony by
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(165 Stories)

Prompted By Ceremony

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It was our friend Jack who recommended Aidan to us. We needed someone to paint the house interior, and he assured us that Aidan was the best.  He was also an artist, a perfectionist, and a quixotic Irish fellow who presented us with a four-page estimate in hand-written calligraphy.  Yes, he was available, and yes,…
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We all live in a yellow submarine, er… yellow bus by
10
(15 Stories)

Prompted By Moving Day

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… their route started from Boston to Nova Scotia to see the total eclipse of the sun
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Kitchen Musical Theater by
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(298 Stories)

Prompted By Theater

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I guess I ended up with the wrong set of genes for my theatrical fantasies, but I’m really enjoying watching my granddaughter perform.
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