I spent a lot of time at Balboa Park in San Diego with my girlfriend watching the ducks. They were mostly mallards, with a few exotic types from the nearby San Diego Zoo. There were 21 of them for the longest time, week after week, a combination of adults and some yearlings. There is aContinue reading “Discover Prompts: Day 9 – Pairs: The Ducks at San Diego’s Balboa Park”
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Discover Prompts #8: Curve
Picture a corkscrew. It’s curvy, curved in one direction. Hold that corkscrew horizontally. As you trace the curve, it moves forward and also curves back around to where it started. If you drew a line on the top of the corkscrew, each point on the metal part of the screw would line up, the spacesContinue reading “Discover Prompts #8: Curve”
Below the Common View: A Dachshund’s Guide to the World
This is for Discover Prompts #7 for April 7 – Below. I have a dachshund named Herman. He’s 17 pounds of double dapple short-haired red with white flash on the back of his neck and a white stripe from his foreheard to his nose, white booties on his feet, and a white tip of hisContinue reading “Below the Common View: A Dachshund’s Guide to the World”
The Left-Handers Guide to Getting Behind
This is Discover Prompts #6 for April 6 on the word Hands. Something about needing and then getting a root canal slowed me down. But I’m on the mend now. I’m a left-hander. My brother was a left-hander. My paternal grandmother was a left-hander. I know that my grandmother bowled left-handed in Ohio. She wasContinue reading “The Left-Handers Guide to Getting Behind”
The Magical Refillable Santa Claus Christmas Plate
I’m a day behind with Discover Prompts: Dish for April 5. Better late than never. We celebrated Christmas in my house, and my mom and dad pulled out all the stops: decorations, a beautiful tree, holiday gatherings with friends including big meals with elaborately set tables. Families gathered around the television for Christmas variety showsContinue reading “The Magical Refillable Santa Claus Christmas Plate”
On the Street Where I Lived: McKeever
I grew up on McKeever street in Granada Hills in the San Fernando Valley in the same house for 23 years. The epitome of a Valley suburb, our street was as idyllic as any and held the hopes and dreams for all of us. We were a young neighborhood. I think there were 15 neighborhoodContinue reading “On the Street Where I Lived: McKeever”
Give My Regards to Broadway
A memory and a tribute to healthcare workers in New York City Today’s Discover Prompts is about “song.” I’m remembering a duet I used to play with my dad on the piano, “Give My Regards to Broadway.” I’m also thinking of the healthcare workers laying their lives on the line during this pandemic. I’m thinkingContinue reading “Give My Regards to Broadway”
Wide Open Sea
When I was 16 years old, I sailed on the Trimaran Columba from Ventura, California to the Hawaiian Islands with 11 other people. The captain was our high school football coach, and the rest of us were high schoolers and a few beginning college students. I had a love/hate relationship with the water. In everyContinue reading “Wide Open Sea”
Tank You, Tank You Very Much!
For yesterday’s (April 1) Discover Prompt, I’m retelling one of my favorite longish jokes from elementary school. I love this joke so much! It tickles me every time. You be the judge if the pay off is worth it. Once, this young man joined the army. They were glad to have him. When it cameContinue reading “Tank You, Tank You Very Much!”
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