Stacey’s SOLS: Voting

Showing-off My "I Voted" Sticker

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I woke up at 4:37 a.m. Nope, don’t have to be up yet, I thought. I turned over and attempted to go back to bed. By 4:40 a.m., I realized it wasn’t going to happen. I rolled over, grabbed my iTouch, and started checking [...]

Preserve a slice of the election, in writing, today.

No one else in this world will have a story quite like yours on this historic Election Day. Consider writing it up and linking your Slice of Life Story HERE, today, on this special Election Day Edition of the Slice of Life Story Challenge.

Ruth’s SOLS: Vote!

Imagine my surprise as I stood in line at 6:15 behind more than 40 others waiting to vote. I quickly began calculating . . . two booths . . . 3 minutes per person . . . I’m going to be here for awhile. As I waited in line, my first reaction was [...]

Old Photos

After yesterday’s writing, I was reminded of something I read in Ralph Fletcher’s A Writer’s Notebook:  Unlocking the Writer Within You.  (Since this is the second reference for this book in less than a week — Stacey’s post is here – you may want to consider buying it!  Wink . . . Wink!)  He writes:
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Memoir Monday: How things used to be.

From my writer’s notebook yesterday:
Today I came across an old mini-golf score card from when I beat Andy.  (This doesn’t happen very often, so I stuck it in my very first writer’s notebook in order to remember.)  Like a whoosh from opening a bottle of pop, I was flooded with feelings of how things used [...]