What traditions have you not kept that your parents had? Traditions are very important to many people. Repeating rituals on an annual (give or take) basis, passing on those traditions to the children so that they are preserved by the family. Sometimes, when traditions drop away, people lament their passing as if a piece ofContinue reading “Tradition? Tradition!”
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Just a Typical Day
Was today typical? In the last few years my vocabulary of words with prefixes has grown. Words normally (hah!) normal gained new variations having “neuro-” added to them. There’s “neuro-typical” and “neuro-divergent” joining the older “atypical.” When the prompt asks, “Was today typical?,” my first response is: well, I just started my day, so it’sContinue reading “Just a Typical Day”
How to Describe Me?
How would you describe yourself to someone? This is a tough question. As humans, we identify ourselves in different ways, and for different reasons. A professional bio reads differently than a dating profile, for example, and it’s possible that something from the former could scare away people from the latter. (Though one time I didContinue reading “How to Describe Me?”
It’s a Dinosaur!
If you could bring back one dinosaur, which one would it be? That moment in Jurassic Park where you first see the dinosaurs…very cool! And yet no one had the foresight to realize that, by bringing back the dangerous ones, they might get out of control? And they forgot this in several sequels? (Which IContinue reading “It’s a Dinosaur!”
Now Boarding!
If you won two free plane tickets, where would you go? Two plane tickets to anywhere? I think a lot of places are within my reach financially, as I plan my travel. But if you, unseen prompt person, want to hand me tickets, I would opt for Australia. I would like to explore “down under,”Continue reading “Now Boarding!”
Nickname?
What’s the story behind your nickname? In another blog post I talked about the origin of my avatar’s name, and how I came up with Phorkyad Acropolis. Here we focus on my real life name. To begin, I don’t really have a nickname, per se. My birth certificate says, “Stephen Alan Schrum.” My mother onceContinue reading “Nickname?”
Post Mortem
We always ended our theatre productions with a post-mortemdiscussion to talk about what worked and what didn’t. On 7/26/2023, StoryZ, our new theatre and performance group, hosted its inaugural offering, an Open Mic Poetry Event. I’ll be having a longer discussion with others soon, but I wanted to jot down some points before I forgetContinue reading “Post Mortem”
Travel Travails
What are your future travel plans? Actually, I have nothing to say here today about the travails of traveling, but I did want to comment about these prompts, which seem to be repeating themselves a bit, with minor variations. Since I try to not repeat myself (though I don’t always succeed), I’d like the promptsContinue reading “Travel Travails”
Small Change
What would you change about modern society? The title of my post today was also the title of my first novel. Or should I say “novel”? It was basically an autobiographical accounting of the last days of my time in high school and a little while after in to the post-graduation era where I foundContinue reading “Small Change”
The Soundtrack in My Head
What do you listen to while you work? Of course, the way my mind works, there’s almost always a song playing in my head. Many times someone will say something, and my inner jukebox will hear the rhythm of a line and start playing a song with that same lyrical setup. Like, right now, IContinue reading “The Soundtrack in My Head”
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