Tag: dailyprompt

  • What Is Your Favorite Genre of Music?

    What Is Your Favorite Genre of Music?

    You ask me this question like it’s simple, like the heart has drawers labeled jazz, rock, classical, like the soul keeps neat little categories for the sounds that make us human. But I tell you—music doesn’t live in genres, it lives in the space between your ribs when that first note hits…

  • The Salt Between Us: My Most Memorable Vacation

    The Salt Between Us: My Most Memorable Vacation

    I remember the morning we left, how you fumbled with the car keys while I counted sunscreen bottles like rosary beads in my palm. The highway stretched before us, a ribbon of possibility threading through mountains that wore clouds like crowns…

  • Under the Knife

    Under the Knife

    Have you ever lain there in the pre-dawn darkness, hospital gown twisted around your shoulders like surrender, counting the ceiling tiles because counting keeps the mind from wandering toward the sharp edges of what comes next? This journey explores the profound vulnerability and unexpected strength found in the surgical experience—from the sterile waiting rooms to…

  • What Are Your Daily Habits?

    What Are Your Daily Habits?

    The question arrives like morning light through venetian blinds—slicing the darkness into manageable strips of inquiry. What are your daily habits? As if habit were a simple thing, as if the repetition of breathing could be catalogued like grocery lists or tax returns. I wake each day to the sound of my own heart insisting…

  • The Eternal Outfit

    The Eternal Outfit

    If I were condemned to singular cloth, sentenced to the same weave day after day, until the threads memorized my skin and my skin learned the language of cotton—I would choose denim. Not the pristine, factory-fresh blue that screams newness from store shelves, but the kind that whispers stories, that carries the archaeology of ten…

  • The Weight of Years: A Journey Through Time and Memory

    The Weight of Years: A Journey Through Time and Memory

    In the corner of my kitchen counter, weathered and worn smooth by decades of devotion, sits my grandmother’s wooden spoon—carved from olive wood in a village whose name I can barely pronounce, but whose essence lives in the grain of this humble instrument. Forty-seven years it has stirred the same clockwise circles, outlasting kitchen renovations,…

  • Who Do You Spend the Most Time With?

    Who Do You Spend the Most Time With?

    A tender, lyrical meditation on the silent companion we often overlook—ourselves.

  • If You Had to Change Your Name, What Would Your New Name Be?

    If You Had to Change Your Name, What Would Your New Name Be?

    What is a name but a thread through time? If I had to change mine, I would seek not a label— but a mirror reflecting the truest me.

  • Books That Changed Me: A Journey Through Meaning, Magic, and Quiet Strength

    Books That Changed Me: A Journey Through Meaning, Magic, and Quiet Strength

    Some books enter your life as silent companions. Others, like these three, become maps that guide, provoke, and anchor you. Here’s how Man’s Search for Meaning, The Alchemist, and Quiet changed the way I think, feel, and live.

  • for the Disconnected Self

    for the Disconnected Self

    No funeral marked the moment I lost myself, no eulogy read as I dissolved into scrolls, swipes, pings, alerts— digital rosaries I clutched more tightly than prayer.