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Scintilla 2013: Day 2 Tell the story about something interesting (anything!) that happened to you, but tell it in the form of an instruction manual (Step 1, Step 2, Step 3….) Driving in England. For the first time. Oblivious to all warnings that this might not be such a fantastic idea. Step 1. Th...

The Scintilla Project is back again! I may actually make more than one entry every couple of months. Prompt #1 is: Tell a story set at your first job. I was five years old when I was hired for my first job. Maybe six.  All of my other prior-to-the-legal-age-for-actual-employment jobs in...

  Scintilla Project: Day Nine. Write a list of 23. Twenty three ideas for lists I’ve debated over to use for the 23 Things. 1.       23 pets I’ve had. 2.       23 favorite books. 3.       23...

 Scintilla Project: Day 8. Who was your childhood best friend? (yes, I did skip 7) When I was a child, my cousin who lived in Richmond was my best friend. We were the same age, and although she lived far away, she and her mom and sisters came to Asheville every summer to visit my…

  Day Six of The Scintilla Project!  Talk about faith. Yours or someone else’s. I am an avowed agnostic, and a few years ago I discovered that I come by that honestly. My mom joined the Worldwide Church of God when I was four, and although we kept thinking that one day Daddy would...

The Scintilla Project,  Day 5: Talk about a time you got away with it. I didn’t really get away with it. But on the plus side, in the end I didn’t go to jail. I didn’t even cultivate a shiny new criminal record. It was so mortifying that I did not tell anyone who didn&rsquo...

Because the weekend prompts (one of which I did not do) were apparently just extras and now we're back to day four. Oh, well, Day Four it is! And thank you for all the great comments --- of course now I'm all behind in replies and noting myself, since I'm actually making an effort to…

It's yet another daily post from the Scintilla Project!   Scintilla Prompt #4 – What is one massively impossible dream you’ve always had? When I was very young, my dream was to be a jockey (National Velvet was my favorite book). That dream was dashed by the time I was nine a...

  Prompt #3 for The Scintilla Project: Talk about a memory triggered by a particular song. I have a whole head crammed full of memories that are triggered by several decades worth of songs, so I kept hoping I could write about a memory involving a really cool song. An impressive song. O...

Day Two Prompt in the Scintilla Project: When did you realize you were a grownup?  It seems like everyone in this world who appears to be an adult has discovered some secret of Achieving Mature GrownUpedNess, and I haven’t quite figured out what it is that they know and I don&rsqu...