This week, Mama Kat wants me to consider the plight of my friends who don’t have kids. Only I don’t have a lot of friends without kids. Because, um, I have a kid and that makes me uninteresting to people…
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Mama Kat’s Writers Workshop: Sound Bites
Now this is easy don’t you think? 4.) Open letter to a celebrity. I’m actually going to change it up a little and write some very short messages to a number of celebrities that only merit a text message, not…
Mama Kat’s Writer’s Workshop: Home Sweet Home
Mama Kat s leading me down memory lane this week. 1.) Your childhood neighborhood. I could on on forever. My childhood neighborhood was idyllic. Leafy suburban streets, walking distance to one of the top high schools in the state, if…
Mama Kat’s Writer’s Workshop: Woulda Coulda Shoulda
An interesting idea to ponder from Mama Kat this week. Not the part about who Lou Holz might be. I know who he is. Because college football is, like, my favorite thing. After chocolate. 1.) Lou Holtz (don’t ask me…
Mama Kat’s Writer’s Workshop: Time Out!
Well. Mama Kat just gave me permission to be super-lazy! 2.) If you were put in “time out”, where would you want to be placed and why? I actually wrote about my ideal image of Mommy Time Out but I…
Mama Kat’s Writer’s Workshop: Woodland Creatures Edition
Mama Kat is making me write poetry again. I think it’s punishment for when I accused her of stalking me last week. 2.) Write a poem for your furry friend. Ah, but which furry friend? Could I write an elegy…
Mama Kat’s Writer’s Worshop: SWMamaKat
OK, this Mama Kat prompt is spooky: 5.)Earthquake! Where were you when it happened? Why is this spooky? Because there actually was an earthquake in DC last week! Do you know how often DC gets earthquakes? Never. We never get…
Mama Kat’s Writer’s Workshop: Mel Gibson is A Douchebag
Mama Kat is simply FORCING me to do this post. FORCING. Against my better judgment. But here goes… 1.) Choose a headline from The Today Show website and write up an opinion post based on the story you chose. Well.…
Mama Kat’s Writer’s Workshop: Change, please!
Mama Kat is opening a can of worms here! 1.) What would you change about your life if you could? Way, way back in the mid-1990s I had a job that left me with a lot of time on my…
Mama Kat’s Writers Workshop: I Wish I Could Quit You
Oh, Mama Kat. Why must you make me relive this? 2.) Write a poem about a memory you sometimes wish would disappear. It was a warm night in Florence. Summer. The old city rose about me, all stone walls and…
