Back Where I Come From

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Back Where I Come From 

https://mcclendonvilla.wordpress.com/2017-september-challenge/

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Happy September!

Here is a brand new challenge, brought to you by Suzanne, at McClendonvilla. It will be a question and answer challenge, lasting for the 30 days of September. Each day will be a new question. If you’d like to join in, just click the above link for the details!

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Question One:

Were you raised in the town in which you were born? Where were you raised?

***I was born and raised in the same town, Lubbock TX. I lived in the same house up until I got married, when the mister and I moved away. He was in the Army, so we moved around a lot, all over the world, but since he retired, we are right back living in our home town.

Lubbock is known for being the home town of the legendary musician, Buddy Holly. There is a…

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September 1st is National Gyro Day!

Foodimentary - National Food Holidays

Here are today’s five thing to know about Gyros:

1. A gyro  is a dish of meat roasted on a vertical spit. It is usually served as a sandwich, also called a gyros, with tomato, onion, and tzatziki sauce, wrapped in pita bread.
2. To make gyros, pieces of meat are placed on a tall vertical spit, which turns in front of a source of heat, usually an electric broiler.
3.  If the meat is not fatty enough, strips of fat are added so that the roasting meat remains always moist and crisp.
4. The rate of roasting can be adjusted by varying the strength of the heat and the distance between the heat and the meat, allowing the cook to adjust to varying rates of consumption.
5. The outside of the meat is sliced vertically in thin, crisp shavings when done. It is generally served in an oiled, lightly grilled piece of pita, rolled…

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First Line Friday -September 1st 2017

Mindlovemisery's Menagerie

It’s that every other Friday again where I give you the first line, and you all get to write the rest. This prompt alternates with Amanda’s Music Prompts, so make sure to check back next Friday for some musical inspiration.

I’ll provide the first line, you get to write whatever comes afterward. Length, genre, and structure are completely up to you. Feel free to modify the line as you see fit, adding punctuation, quotes, or other bits if so desired. Or for more of a challenge, change nothing. No need to tie it to the picture, unless you want to. You have a week to write it, enjoy!

Include the first line of course! Tag it Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie, First Line Fridays, and short fiction. Create a link (ping-back) to this post and add your link to Mister Linky below.

Your line for this week is:

When Sahi returned to The Ridge…

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The Friday Reminder and Prompt for #SoCS Sept. 2/17

It’s Friday! And that means it’s time for your Stream of Consciousness Saturday prompt. My eldest son is celebrating his 23rd birthday tomorrow, so it’s gonna be a busy one for Mom. Somehow I managed to have all my kids in the fall … and so it begins. Here’s your SoCS prompt for this week:

Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is: “birth/berth.” Use one, use ’em both, but whatever you do, have fun!

After you’ve written your Saturday post tomorrow, please link it here at this week’s prompt page and check to make sure it’s here in the comments so others can find it and see your awesome Stream of Consciousness post. Anyone can join in!

To make your post more visible, use our brand new SoCS badge! Just paste it in your Saturday post so people browsing the reader will immediately know your post is stream…

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FEMINIST FRIDAY

Haddon Musings

 On the eve of the Labor Day Weekend, I would like to introduce you to Mary Harris Jones, more commonly referred to as Mother Jones.  Mother Jones was a fearless union organizer.  At one time she was called the most dangerous woman in America.  It is thought that the American Classic song,”She’ll Be Coming Around the Mountain” was written to honor her and to this day there is a magazine that investigates and reports injustice titled Mother Jones.

 Mary Harris Jones, or “Mother Jones”, was born to a tenant farmer in Cork, Ireland, in 1837. Her family fled the potato famine when she was just 10, resettling in Toronto. She trained to be a teacher and took a job in Memphis, where on the eve of the Civil War she married a union foundry worker and started a family. But in 1867, a yellow fever epidemic swept through the…

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#MarquessaChallenge – “Missing You” #fictionfriday #music #prompt

Prompt #3098 Word of the Week – Daymare | The Writing Reader

Source: Prompt #3098 Word of the Week – Daymare | The Writing Reader

Daily Two-Word Prompt #116

“Stay determined” Write a story or poem using the two-word prompt. Be creative and have fun writing! Please link your response to this post or add your link to the comments below, so ot…

Source: Daily Two-Word Prompt #116

Friday Funnies 01.09

Blog of a Mad Black Woman

Have a wonderful weekend all. 😀

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A Photo a Week Challenge: Literary Reference

nancy merrill photography

I had the chance to do newborn photos for a brilliant young couple (who just happen to be related to me) that are super geeky. They love Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter. I got to take pictures with stuffed Hobbs and Totoro. Sometimes we set up things to have literary references, and sometimes they just come naturally (like the third photo here of a tree that looked like an Ent from Lord of the Rings). I’m really hoping to some day take a picture that looks like the wind sweeping across the moors in northern England or sand dunes that burn with the heat of the sun like Lawrence of Arabia. There is so much scope for the imagination.

IN A NEW POST CREATED FOR THIS CHALLENGE, SHARE A PHOTO OR TWO (OR THREE OR…) THAT HAVE A LINK TO LITERATURE, MOVIES, OR ANY OTHER ENTERTAINMENT.

Everyone is…

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