Stream of Conscousness: January can be a dry month, creatively. Up here in the Midwest, kissing distance to Canada, it gets cold and dark. The last few years we haven’t got much in the way of snow – ok, so I exaggerate…I’m in the TC area – but everything is hard and monochromatic. Stark. Continue reading
Image source: Echo by Ellen Thesleff, Finnish (1891)
Just Jot January Day 10 – Prompt: Echo from Dan. Be sure to visit his blog to read or just say hi! See what other folks have done with the prompt, or add your own! https://lindaghill.com/2025/01/10/daily-prompt-jusjojan-the-10th-2025/
Not shy but he swerves
Avoids the ones with too much nerve
Don’t touch him so soon
© Liz Husebye Hartmann (2025)
JusJoJan 2025: January 9 – Prompt SHY. Use it any way you’d like. Have fun! https://lindaghill.com/2025/01/09/daily-prompt-jusjojan-the-9th-2025/
Leaning back, she throws off her reading glasses and rubs her eyes, despairing. The screen before her glows, cursor a blinking heartbeat, a sludgy chuckle over words just written and publicly posted. Continue reading
(Forgive my show of ill-temper)
Signed and certified
The orange skidmark
Slides down the back
Of US underpants
Floods our shoes
And stains the news
We make a mockery
Of our democracy
© Liz Husebye Hartmann (2025)
(Ok, this wasn’t exactly fun, but it had to be said. Because I’m sad, and we have to go on.) To join in the fun of Just Jot It January (reading or writing your own on the prompt), visit https://lindaghill.com/2025/01/08/one-liner-wednesday-jusjojan25-the-8th-stop-following-me/#like-18645
In which I combine two prompts that go really well together & try to find a kinder, more understanding perspective…
January 5 – Prompt FRUSTRATION from Barbara
January 7 – Prompt PERNICKETY/PERSNICKETY from Ritu
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Okay, so I did write a response to the prompts (582 words. Ugh!), and succeeded in finding the humor and the humanity of the situation, so the prompts were great for introspection and humor. Many thanks, Barbara and Ritu!
But face it: we don’t really want to spend time reading a lot of whingeing, especially from me. So it remains in my word processor and not on my blog. Instead, enjoy my silly offering from the (sadly) now defunct Carrot Ranch, in which our task was to create variations and a story on “Once Upon a Time” in EXACTLY 99 words:
https://valleyofthetrolls.blog/2023/11/16/a-place-where-stories-begin/
Hope I make you smile today!
© Liz Husebye Hartmann (2025)
To join in the fun of Just Jot It January (reading or writing your own on the prompt), visit: https://lindaghill.com/2025/01/05/daily-prompt-jusjojan-the-5th-2025/
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