Remix: A Fight Club Moment
Weekly Writing Challenge: Go back through your blog archives and find a bloated, nasty, air-filled paragraph. Copy it in all it’s former glory into a new…
Read articleAll The Comforts Of Home
This week’s Prompt For The Promptless is about Gezelligheid: Gezelligheid is a Dutch noun meaning the comfort and coziness of being at home, with friends, with…
Read articleNormality Snormality
Daily Post prompt: Is being “normal” — whatever that means to you — a good thing, or a bad thing? Neither? Whatever the definition of normal…
Read articleCanines: Respondez S’il Vous Plait
Daily Post prompt: Plan the ultimate celebration for the person you’re closest to, and tell us about it. Where is it? Who’s there? What’s served? What…
Read articleFOG Easter Eggs
This week’s Prompt For The Promptless is running gags: A running gag is a literary device (usually a funny reference, or silly joke) that appears repeatedly…
Read articleWelcome to Fish House
Vision boards. “What the aich and eff is a vision board?” I thought to myself when I saw this week’s Prompts For The Promptless. “It sounds…
Read articleAn Interview With My Alter Ego
This week’s Prompt For The Promptless is about alter ego: The Alter Ego, in Latin, literally means “Second I” or “Second Self”. It can refer to…
Read articleThe FOG Extravaganza Giveawayery Part 2
Since I had so much fun with The FOG Extravaganza Giveawayery last December, I’ve decided to do round two. The concept is fairly simple: Mad Libs,…
Read articleThe Silver Lining Of Abuse
This week’s Prompts For The Promptless is about silver linings: “Silver Lining” is a prospect of hope or comfort in a gloomy situation. [1870-75; from the…
Read articleBlogging Advice From The Fish
Daily Post Prompt: Give your newer sisters and brothers-in-WordPress one piece of advice based on your experiences blogging. Well, seeing as I just has my third…
Read articleWhat A Strange Little Man
Weekly Writing Challenge: The door to your house/flat/apartment/abode has come unstuck in time. The next time you walk through it, you find yourself in the same…
Read articleRemaking The Peace Symbol
This month’s Bloggers For Peace Challenge is about art. One of the prompts was to “create a piece of art that brings peace to the world…
Read articleA Problem Named Sherman
Weekly Writing Challenge: Write a post written entirely in slang, dialect, or a regional accent. Author’s note: This is Detroit slang, but it’s been over fifteen…
Read articleDía De Los Animales Muertos
This week’s Prompts For The Promptless topic is saudade: Saudade is a Portuguese word that describes a deep emotional state of nostalgic longing for an absent…
Read articleDoot’n Doot’n Doot Do
I am a terrible, awful, off-key, no good singer. I know this because I was blessed with perfect pitch, which only serves to annoy the crap…
Read articleOn Violence
This week’s Daily Post writing challenge is about violence in film. Specifically, they ask whether I think watching violent movies inspires violence in the real world.…
Read articleGallows Humor: Famous Last Words
This week’s Prompts For The Promptless topic is gallows humor: Gallows Humor is humor that makes fun of a life-threatening, disastrous, or terrifying situation. Humor, and…
Read articlePerson, Place Or Thing: The Grille
It’s not the best food in the world. It’s thoroughly edible and not too pricey, but it’s not the type of food you go raving about…
Read article20 Weird Things We Say And Why
English is a weird language and idioms are the strangest part of it. An idiom is a commonly used expression. We all use them and half…
Read articleThe Wedding Party
Well, that was a beautiful ceremony. It ought to be for as much as it cost us. And the reception is lovely, too. I should hope…
Read articleThe Litmus Personality Test
This week, Rarasaur’s Prompts For The Promptless is about Litmus tests: The Litmus Test is a test in which a single factor (as an attitude, event,…
Read articleOn Tattoos
Daily Post prompt: Head to “Blogs I Follow” in the Reader. Scroll down to the third post in the list. Take the third sentence in the…
Read articleTrue Cost to Own® (TCO)
This week’s Prompts For The Promptless is about true cost: True Cost is a term for the often-overlooked, comprehensive expense of something, including the time-related and…
Read articleChildhood Artifacts
Today’s Daily Post prompt: Describe an item you were incredibly attached to as a child. What became of it? Oh, childhood. Did you have one? I…
Read articleWeekly Photo Challenge: A Day In The Life: Photo Edition
I thought I’d take a stab at the weekly photo challenge for a change since I recently got a new smartphone with a working camera. Yay…
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