I am participating in 31 Days of Five Minute Free Writes 2019 (all of my submissions can be found here). Today’s prompt is: TELL Editing and live tweeting are very different things, but they do something for me that I appreciate — they make me pay closer attention to whatever is being written or said. With […]
STRONG (FMF31 2019 Day 19)
I am participating in 31 Days of Five Minute Free Writes 2019 (all of my submissions can be found here). Today’s prompt is: STRONG I end up reading about Darren Walker, CEO of the Ford Foundation, pretty often. I edit the BoardSource newsletter, which is geared toward nonprofit boards of directors, for SmartBrief, and he’s a […]
ACTIVE (FMF31 2019 Day 18)
I am participating in 31 Days of Five Minute Free Writes 2019 (all of my submissions can be found here). Today’s prompt is: ACTIVE I’m not sure if this prompt response is going to be among my most coherent, because I am incapable of turning off the first #AllWomanSpacewalk that is being livestreamed right now. The […]
CONSISTENT (FMF31 2019 Day 17)
I am participating in 31 Days of Five Minute Free Writes 2019 (all of my submissions can be found here). Today’s prompt is: CONSISTENT “At least you (or I, or they, or she/he) are consistent.” This is something I say in jest … um … “consistently.” It’s usually after someone has said something relatively self-deprecating, like […]
AVOID (FMF31 2019 Day 16)
I am participating in 31 Days of Five Minute Free Writes 2019 (all of my submissions can be found here). Today’s prompt is: AVOID I am developing a whole little sub-genre here on my blog of posts about “I made an error at work today and am coming to terms that we are all human.” Errors […]
OPEN (FMF31 2019 Day 15)
I am participating in 31 Days of Five Minute Free Writes 2019 (all of my submissions can be found here). Today’s prompt is: OPEN I just happened to catch the story out of the corner of my eye yesterday as I was preparing to go to “live TV” on CNN. The headline was something like “Hamilton […]