Today is the last day of NaBloPoMo—at least, for November. (Apparently, unlike NaNoWriMo, it's more of an ongoing thing.) It has been quite a month. When the month began, I was struggling to figure out where the anxiety I'd recently started feeling again for the first time in over a decade was coming from. The [...]
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Endings
Today's writing prompt: Tell us how you feel about endings.Endings, like time itself, are flexible.Some endings are well-marked, clearly delineated. The end of an event, a project, or a process is celebrated with a closing ceremony. A movie or TV show ends with credits (often accompanied by music), copyright notices, various logos, and, some times, some [...]
Then and Now
Today's writing prompt: How do you feel about the first blog post you ever wrote? I wrote my first blog post (https://ordinaryaveragethoughts.wordpress.com/2011/02/12/hello-or-something/) in February 2011. Re-reading it a few minutes ago, I note that it's not quite as clumsy and awkward as I had thought. I also notice that it has mostly turned into something else. [...]
Accomplishments? Meh
Today's writing prompt: What accomplishment are you most proud of? I've never really looked at the things I've done as accomplishments, let alone taken pride in them. That may sound odd, but it's seldom occurred to me to think that way. In fact, I really don't like to boast or brag about the things I do. [...]
Hidden No More (or Kevin’s Brush with Technology)
Better late than never—Tuesday's writing prompt: Tell us about the last thing you hid. Hah! Well, kids, this one is going to be rather boring, I'm afraid. The last thing I hid was purely accidental. Yesterday, I used Skype for the first time. I've long avoided video chat in general, and Skype in particular. I did [...]
Buy (Buy…Buy…)
Today's writing prompt: Tell us about the last thing a person or advertisement convinced you to buy. Advertising is all around us: TV commercials, radio spots, movie trailers, billboards, posters, print ads, stadium and arena names, sponsorships, etc. It would be easy to argue that almost every purchase we make is the end result of advertising [...]
Dreams
It has been a week of strange dreams. I guess I shouldn't be too surprised by this. After all, periods of great change seem to be accompanied by much more vivid goings-on in my night-time interior landscape. The first half of 1992, during the last few months in Tokyo before I decided to decamp back [...]
Under Cover
Today's writing prompt: How important are book covers in getting you to read a book? The notion of judging a book by its cover is familiar to just about everyone, even those who don't spend time reading books. The saying goes, "You can't judge a book by its cover." But the fact that we still design [...]
Outfits
Today's writing prompt: Describe an outfit that makes you feel good. (It can be from any period of your life.) Double points if you post a picture of yourself in the outfit. This is one of the least important concerns I have in life. Don't get me wrong—my clothes are clean, and there are some articles [...]
My First Friends
Today's writing prompt: Tell us about your first friend. Similar to a lot of folks (or so I am assuming), my first friends were imaginary. They were a pair of ghosts named Boo and Oo. I'm not a hundred percent sure, but, based on their names, I suspect they were siblings. That would make sense; [...]
Ordinary Average Thoughts 