My husband feels I inspire people. This might be true in some small way, but I have never felt like what I say has had a profound effect on anyone or anything — unless you count my kid. Which is… Read More ›
ideas
A SPOONFUL OF SUGAR
Remember the line from a song in Mary Poppins (the original movie with Julie Andrews) where she sang “Just a spoon full of sugar makes the medicine go down?” I remember when Trump was elected saying that once he got… Read More ›
IF YOU DON’T READ, YOU PROBABLY CAN’T WRITE – Marilyn Armstrong
Blogging Insights # 34 – Reading QUESTION Do you think that reading is an important prerequisite for writing well? If so, what kind of reading material inspires or affects your writing? I never took a writing course. .I never wanted… Read More ›
WORDS AND WILDLIFE – Marilyn Armstrong
I have no doubt my dogs think. They don’t have as long a memory as people and I don’t think they get into nostalgia or reminiscing, but they plan. They will work together to accomplish a particular goal. Like opening… Read More ›
WHAT KIND OF IDEA ARE YOU? – Marilyn Armstrong
From Salmon Rushdie’s “Satanic Verses”: I don’t fit in a category. Not me, not my ideas. The concept of “compromise” as wrong bothers me. Not because I “go with the flow.” I have no idea what “the flow” is. I’ve never been in… Read More ›
NOT INSTAGRAM, FACEBOOK, OR TWITTER – Marilyn Armstrong
I used to look at the posts that came to me. There was stuff to read. Thoughtful pieces full of ideas, humor. Whimsical material. Ideas to ponder. Often heartfelt pieces about personal tragedies, working through issues, finding answers to important… Read More ›
KEEP THE THOUGHT
A good idea is like a dream. Perhaps it is a dream, in waking form. It comes misty and bright. Beautiful, floating in your mind. Catch it before it flies away because it will fade to a mostly forgotten memory… Read More ›
THINKING ABOUT THINKING
I have no doubt my dogs think. They have a short-term version of planning and will work together to accomplish a goal. Like opening a gate — or dismembering a toy. Surely they would hunt together if they had something to… Read More ›
WAITING TO BE BORN
WHAT KIND OF IDEA ARE YOU? From Salmon Rushdie’s “Satanic Verses”: What kind of idea are you? Are you the kind that compromises, does deals, accommodates itself to society, aims to find a niche, to survive; or are you the… Read More ›
BRAINWAVE: IT SEEMED LIKE A GREAT IDEA AT THE TIME
What’s the best idea you’ve ever had? Regale us with every detail of the idea — the idea itself, where it came to you, and the problem it solved. Photographers, artists, poets: show us BRIGHT. It’s a cold day at… Read More ›
Keep an Open Mind
“Man will never reach the moon regardless of all future scientific advances.” — Dr. Lee DeForest, “Father of Radio & Grandfather of Television.” “The bomb will never go off. I speak as an expert in explosives.” — Admiral William Leahy… Read More ›
Daily Prompt: Bookworm — Where books live …
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SERENDIPITY - SEEKING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH 