dailyprompt – Page 94 – Deb Hawken

Celebrate?

How do you celebrate holidays? Coming from the UK, a holiday is when you pack a toothbrush and some underwear (plus the rest of the house and 12 extra pairs of knickers in case of emergencies), and go away for an extended period of time. Longer than a weekend break, but shorter than emigrating. UsuallyContinueContinue reading “Celebrate?”

Not so much fail

Write about your most epic baking or cooking fail. Perfect poetic justice I was very rarely a naughty child ever, certainly not mischievous. But one cold autumn day in about 1974, my bestie and I decided that freezing our extremities off watching a game of school netball wasn’t desirable. So we went to the headmistress,ContinueContinue reading “Not so much fail”

I Mattered

Share a lesson you wish you had learned earlier in life. But very little else did. I was raised begging for attention, for fairness. No matter how hard I tried, how well behaved, I could never win. I used to describe myself as 3/10 must try harder. My younger brother and I agreed when weContinueContinue reading “I Mattered”

Seriously?

How often do you walk or run? Warning…This has morphed beyond punchy of its own free will! 🤣 When I was a kid I ran everywhere, down the corridor at school, as soon as I got out of the house. I lost count of the yells that followed me “don’t run”. Then I got myContinueContinue reading “Seriously?”

LOL

Do you see yourself as a leader? Yes. I’ve led a few teams and during my university days scored off the charts for my leadership style. I marked the group in exactly the same way, and the course tutor described it as a positive love fest that barely seemed real. Except we were all adamantContinueContinue reading “LOL”

S*d All

What are you doing this evening? I used to have a dynamic life. I used to belong to an Am Dram group, I did martial arts, Toastmasters, I was a platform medium, I did talks, I ran groups outside the house. Then something happened. It was insidious, unnoticeable, stealthy. I stopped living my life forContinueContinue reading “S*d All”

Saying one thing doing another

What personality trait in people raises a red flag with you? Actions speak louder than words is not a cliché it’s a simple truth. If people say one thing and do another it unsettles me. Why we humans think that people can’t see that we aren’t matching our words with actions I do not know.ContinueContinue reading “Saying one thing doing another”

Perfect 10

Name the professional athletes you respect the most and why. George Ford The England Ruby player who distinguished himself by winning all 27 points yesterday. I’m not a big fan of Rugby, but I do prefer it to watching millionaires cry on their coach’s shoulder when horrid people expect them to take a penalty. YesterdayContinueContinue reading “Perfect 10”

Never

Are you holding a grudge? About? Holding a grudge means giving other people power over you, and that’s something I will not do. I won’t let unkind people live inside my head, turning me bitter, ruining my digestion with the extra bile, and generally allowing me to hold myself back. I deal with things toContinueContinue reading “Never”

Not the furthest

Share a story about the furthest you’ve ever traveled from home. Freedom The furthest I’ve ever traveled was New Zealand, as far as you can go without meeting yourself coming back. That was 2-week meet the family visit so I saw far too little of a magnificent country. The most important trip was Sedona andContinueContinue reading “Not the furthest”