Crows Feet Writing Prompt

Crow’s Feet Prompt #3 Our Aging Bodies The other day I saw a picture of me in a bathing suit seventeen years ago. There was something odd about my shape then. I had a waistline. I probably took it for granted or said I was getting fat in my size…

Sewing always reminds me of my mom I don’t sew often. Not at all, really. But I will mend a hole or fix a hem every now and again. Whenever I do, I thread a needle and break open a capsule of my childhood. Sewing was such a major part…

It can be hard to let go of all the stuff, but it gets easier the older I get — Nostalgia is defined as “a sentimental longing or wistful affection for the past.” This can manifest itself in many ways, but one of the ways my husband and I are experiencing it is in sorting a lifetime — actually several lifetimes — of stuff. My husband’s mother died last month…

Crow’s Feet Writing Prompt #9, Nostalgia — Sometimes I have nostalgia for the time before I became an orphan. When I was forty-two. I know how ridiculous that sounds. My mother had died when I was thirty and that was way too young to lose one of those. And as Oscar Wilde said: “To lose one parent…

Wistful Longing for The Good Old Days? Not really — Crow’s Feet Prompt Fond memories exist for the days of size 5 dresses, thicker hair, and pre-arthritic knees. When Hersey bars tasted like chocolate and not wax, I recognized what was under the hood of my car, and it was…

Crow’s Feet Prompt #9: How tuning in changed my life. I got a new pick-up truck the other day, new to me that is. …

Growing up through live music — At the time, I didn’t consider myself lucky or unlucky to be growing up in an area where you could only hear live music during the summer. But now, I feel I was very lucky. I grew up roughly in the central part of New York state, where farmland still…

It’s why I always listen to Classic Rock — I have always loved music. When I was a teenager, the big city about 20 miles away from my rural hometown built an arena. At age 15, I attended my first concert. It was Kiss. And this was in the days long before assigned seating. Every show back then was…