Category Archives: Daily Prompt

Give Me it ALL, Rosetta Stone

Posted on February 10, 2014 by Rutabaga the Mercenary Researcher

The Daily Post queries If you could wake up tomorrow and be fluent in any language you don’t currently speak, which would it be? Why? What’s the first thing you do with your new linguistic skills? Yes, with the exception of … Continue reading →

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I Feel For My Mother – Daily Prompt Repost

Posted on October 4, 2013 by Rutabaga the Mercenary Researcher

Seems I’ve covered the Daily Prompt’s query before – and since I reblogged it – I now have to repost it… How important are clothes to you? Describe your style, if you have one, and tell us how appearance impacts how … Continue reading →

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Giddy with Excitement – Daily Prompt

Posted on September 27, 2013 by Rutabaga the Mercenary Researcher

Michelle at WordPress poses this question: When you’re giddy with excitement, does time speed up? Slow down? Tell us about the experience of anticipation. I spend much of my time giddy with excitement.  I know- I require a lot of … Continue reading →

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Daily Prompt – A Twist from a 10 Year Old

Posted on September 9, 2013 by Rutabaga the Mercenary Researcher

How apropos! The Daily Prompt requests: Tell us a story — fiction or non-fiction — with a twist we can’t see coming. Well, I’ll post a ghost story my 10 year old son made up in the car on Sunday … Continue reading →

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Who Shall Chronicle my Life?

Posted on July 13, 2013 by Rutabaga the Mercenary Researcher

The Daily Prompt queries the following: From a famous writer or celebrity, to a WordPress.com blogger or someone close to you — who would you like to be your biographer? All too easy – so you all lucked out because … Continue reading →

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When Sheep Don’t Bring You Joy – DPChallenge

Posted on July 8, 2013 by Rutabaga the Mercenary Researcher

This is a fast story today for the Weekly Writing DPChallenge – the Best Medicine Some of you might have seen this before – and if you have – you can relive the memories with me again. For those that are … Continue reading →

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I Cannot Believe in Miracles

Posted on June 14, 2013 by Rutabaga the Mercenary Researcher

Such an odd thing is coincidence – when you’ve been thinking about something for awhile, pondering how to talk about it, trying to make someone UNDERSTAND where you’re coming from, thinking it might not be the time nor place – … Continue reading →

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A Pill is no Cannoli

Posted on June 4, 2013 by Rutabaga the Mercenary Researcher

The DAILY PROMPT – If you could get all the nutrition you needed in a day with a pill — no worrying about what to eat, no food preparation — would you do it? There once was a pill colored … Continue reading →

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I’m so tired of having to ‘achieve’

Posted on May 22, 2013 by Rutabaga the Mercenary Researcher

Today’s Daily Prompt was about goals  – specifically this: When you started your blog, did you set any goals? Have you achieved them? Have they changed at all? It’s ironic that this would be today’s prompt because I’ve been thinking about … Continue reading →

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When Sheep Don’t Bring You Joy

Posted on August 14, 2012 by Rutabaga the Mercenary Researcher

I wrote this in 40 minutes before work at 5AM – please excuse any offensive uses or misuses of grammar.  mea culpa, mea culpa, mea máxima culpa. That Catholic upbringing was good for something, eh? We moved out to Tucson, … Continue reading →

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