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Daily writing prompt
What does your ideal home look like?

I’ve known for some time now that I could very easily live in either a library or a bookstore. But, after thinking on the prompt this morning, the idea of living above my own bookshop/bakery… now that does has a whimsical feel to it, if I do say so myself!

There would be numerous rooms for reading…

All with different styles to choose from, thereby allowing the reader to find their favorite chair, as well as finding just the right amount of light…

or maybe just the right amount of pillows…

Here’s where things get rather interesting. You see, my ideal home would be somewhat magical. There’d be a desert trolley, effortlessly rolling from room to room, all by itself. My magic trolley would offer up the best kinds of cookies and pastries one could imagine…

Why?

Because, all of my reading rooms will come with a complimentary tea/coffee service, obviously! Nobody likes having to put a good book down, just to eat or drink, sheesh! Most avid readers would just choose to starve, I’m guessing. But I say, “Not on my watch, they won’t!”

Now, let’s talk about ambiance, or atmosphere, if you will. What’s a good reading session, without the accompanying sounds and smells of a delicious bakery, just up the stairs…

That’s where I’d spend half my day, baking my heart out! Oh, and I’d have one of those air blowers on my kitchen vents, pumping the smell of sugar cookies out into the streets.

The front of my bookstore would offer both an indoor and outdoor seating area…

And, just behind my bookstore would be a beautiful city park, filled with lush green trees, fragrant flowers, and numerous kinds of birds and other small wildlife…

So, there you have it, folks! My ideal home, all rolled up into a dreamy oasis of cookies, characters, and creature comforts!

Cookie?

Oh baby!

Daily writing prompt
What brings a tear of joy to your eye?

While, I can unashamedly admit that crying is something I’m rather good at, there are certain moments, experiences, and memories that bring about those joyful drops of emotion that WordPress is inquiring about.

Among the list of crybaby culprits, we have everything from a good song to an old photo album. But nothing get’s my facial sprinklers going like the first cry of a newborn baby!

The miracle! The first sounds of new life! And, they used to say that the louder a baby cries, the stronger the lung’s, so there’s even more joy bubbling up to my fully operational fire suppression units!

In fact, I cried just as much for all my children’s’ firsts! If we’re all being fully honest about the depth of our joyful tears… it has to be babies, children, and and/all small helpless living thing. Just being honest, here.

The picture I shared is of my middle daughter, shortly after her birth. She will soon be celebrating her 33rd birthday, and on or near that date is the expected due date of her first baby. Our newest grandchild shall be the cause of countless joyful tears. But I have to stop talking about her, or those pesky waterworks will short out my keyboard. I’m trying to answer this silly prompt!

Ok! I know it’s Labor Day, so I will not tax your holiday brains with anything further… well, maybe just a few seconds longer.

My answers always come with cookies…

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Did I just type into a therapy session?

Daily writing prompt
How are you feeling right now?

It’s Friday, not Monday, and overly personal queries from a rolodex question generator are bumming me out!

I vote we keep our personal feelings personal, just now, and do what we love to do… eat cookies til they make us feel sad! Maybe by that point we can overshare about our tummy aches!

Let’s do this…

Waking up…

Daily writing prompt
What daily habit do you do that improves your quality of life?

I suppose that waking up is a good start to one’s daily quality of life, wouldn’t you agree?

I mean, one can fill their day with a myriad of differing habits to enrich their daily lives, but not if we’re still sleeping.

Personally, I make every effort to spend time in scripture, each morning. While studying God’s word, I’m praying, worshiping through music, and writing in my journal. The rest of my day is spent repeating habits from the day before, like cleanliness, nutrition, my writing, time spent with my husband, and the list could go on.

My point is, time waits for no one! So, if I desire an improved quality of life, the first habit for success… wake up!

Cookies! Now cookies are also very good for our quality of life, so don’t forget to take one, or even two…

Make eating cookies a daily habit, I say!

How’d he spell his name?

Daily writing prompt
What was the last thing you searched for online? Why were you looking for it?

I’ll answer the prompt, though I doubt it will be all that exciting. The last thing I searched for online was a name. Captain Barbosa’s name, in fact. There’s not much that’s more embarrassing for a writer than a misspell… I hate it when I do that!

It’s bad enough that I am a punctuation fairy, but everybody already knows that’s my thing. Plus, having a name like Wiwohka means that I, more than most, am used to mispronunciations, misspells, and butchered shortcuts… I get it! Names are important, I think, and how one spells their name is part of their identity. There’s that!

Anyways, I have to use Google quite often for name or phrase spell checking, as I happen to be a fountain of useless information; filled with pithy phrases, old wives’ tales, and well used sarcastic quips!

LOL… I just realized that I’ve actually turned into an old wife telling tales, for real!

Oh, and a cookie master! Can’t forget that accolade, can I …

Is this a set up?

Daily writing prompt
What’s your favorite time of day?

My gut reaction is to answer “Daytime”, but it feels like I’m being played, here!

Like one of those pull my finger sort of jokes, or something. If I were to fall for such an obvious trick, it would be all over WordPress Daily news, which is right down the block from The Lobby.

I’d be too embarrassed to show my face out in the street, what with Oscar the Grouch’s garbage can perfectly placed right on the corner. You know, he can be very rude sometimes! On any given day, one might find him entertaining himself by reading the daily newspaper out loud, from his can. I know it doesn’t sound so rude, at first, but let me finish. Oscar doesn’t simply read the articles… no no. He shouts the words as loud as he can, and does so in the direction of whoever walks by his garbage can. See? Very rude, in my opinion.

While I do prefer the quiet of the morning, I’m not going to answer, on the grounds that it may incriminate me, somehow.

What I will do, however, is make a double batch of cookies for everyone, to make up for the ones I forgot the other day. Though you may not think it a big deal, I have a reputation to uphold. In the words of Captain Barbosa, “Don’t dare impugn me honor boy!”

May these cookies served to you, here, this morning, fulfill my duty to me ship, me WordPress family, and me crew!

Double fudge chocolate…

or,

Ok, so maybe these one’s are more like cupcakes. Fine! They’re actual cupcakes, so what? But I should still get credit, what with all the work I put into baking them for you. And, two is still two, right?!

You might think…

Daily writing prompt
What motivates you?

You might think money

Perhaps even power

But, what if your motivation changed by the hour?

You might think recognition

Or maybe a special plaque

But, what if your seat in the classroom was always in the back?

Sometimes, it can even come from failure

When everything has simply gone wrong

With tears in your eyes, motivation arrives

In the middle of a really good song.

You might think of me

as a really bad poet

Please keep that to yourselves

Cause I already know it!

But, to answer this prompt

about what motivates me?

It’s having a purpose, of course… plus the cookies are free!

**No, free cookies don’t have anything to do with purpose being my motivation! I just didn’t have anything else to put there at the end, so cookies seemed to rhyme. ** I’m the queen of disclaimers!

I can take you anywhere…

Daily writing prompt
What do you enjoy most about writing?

Whether by pen, by keyboard, or by my voice… I can transport you to another place, another time, or even another world!

The most amazing adventures begin as the pen touches down on an empty page, taking you to places you’d never dreamt of … yet!

When I write, all the pain, pressure, and frustration over life seem to evaporate, leaving me free to sail the high seas! The possibilities for new adventures, new friends, and new dreams becomes endless at the end of that pen. It’s funny that I answered another recent prompt about pens. Now we’ve left that prompt, but somehow my answer ended up on pens again.

Oh, well! Let’s all have a cookie to take our minds off of pens…

Better?

Do you mean here, or here here?

Daily writing prompt
What do you love about where you live?

To speak on things one might love about where they live, one must first ask an important question.

Which where you live will then direct the answer for what you love about where you live, right?! If you can even decipher that sentence, well done!

How can one begin to write about love, or where you love to live, if loving where you live isn’t the love you’d love to write about?

What if where you live really is where you love to live but you love so many things about where you live that you can’t pick which love you’d love to write about where you live?

I’m practicing how to write like Doctor Seuss did. It’s not nearly as easy as I thought it would be to write in circles… sheesh!

I need a cookie…

Note to self – If you want to love where you live, it’s your choice to make it a place worth loving to live!

A pen works fairly well…

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Daily writing prompt
How do you plan your goals?

Some people like to use a tablet, smart phone, or computer these days, when it comes to making plans, and such.

Personally, I just use a pen and paper… call me old school! Now, it’s not as easy as you might think, writing things out like I did when I was young. There’s far more pens, pencils, crayons, and paint brushes to pick from these days. Don’t get me started on the paper one might consider using to write down my goals. I would have then have to write out an explanation of the best paper products available… I’d have to plan a goal just to locate my favorite paper!

This simple planning question is fast becoming a journaling addict’s mountain to climb. There are forests filled with differing choices of pens, pencils and crayons, resembling a Doctor Seuss story! Red pens, blue pens, green eggs and ham pens…

If I can manage to find my favorite pen to write out my goals, we haven’t even made it to paper choices yet! Do we want loose paper, or paper in a pad… what about colors, textures, and paper thickness?

Just great! Now, not only am I out of good paper, but I’ve got a handful of pens that I can’t decide on. I haven’t even figured out what goal I wanted to plan for because I haven’t had my tea yet… stand down WordPress, stand down!

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— Please hold, while Wiwohka takes a sip of her tea —

Ok! I’m back. What were we talking about? Oh, right! Goals and plans, plans and goals… ummmmmmm….

So………..

…….. how bout those cookies?