Dear Reader,

View this page as a place where you and I can have a conversation on subjects that are meaningful to both of us. On a regular basis I plan to post a topic or question on my mind which I encourage you to respond to (see below).

On this same page you will also find some of the responses that have been sent in by those who have viewed this web site. Please feel free to submit your own questions and thoughts which I might comment on and share with other viewers. I truly look forward to hearing from you.

Sincerely,

WRITER’S PROMPT: What Do You Do With the Quiet?

November 16th, 2009

Make believe that your world went silent for a day.
What would you do with the peace and quiet?

WRITER’S PROMPT: Writing a Poem from Your Heart

November 11th, 2009

Make believe that you could write a poem. What are the things you’d want to say?

WRITER’S PROMPT: Listening to Your Heart

November 8th, 2009

Make believe that someone said ”Go ahead, do what your heart desires.”
Just what would your heart desire?

WRITER’S PROMPT: Wishes for Eternity

November 5th, 2009

What are the things that you would like to see go on forever and ever?

Please share with us.

WRITER’S PROMPT: What’s in Your Heart?

October 25th, 2009

Make believe that you could see deeply into your heart. What do you expect you might find?

WRITER’S PROMPT: Create Your Own Rap Song

October 20th, 2009

Late at night you turn on the radio and hear a rap song that YOU have written. It dominates the air waves and reflects your deepest thoughts, your obsessions, your anger, your joy, your special view of the world. Everyone is mouthing the words to your song. Here is how it goes:
(Please share with us.)

WRITER’S PROMPT: Writing Your Own Obituary

October 4th, 2009

Everybody, no matter how young and strong and vibrant each one is today, will have obituaries someday, too, writes columnist Peggy Noonan in the Oct. 3 Wall Street Journal (”Keeping America Safe From the Ranters”).

”Their careers will be captured in eulogies, leaving their children proud, or not. In a way you’re writing your own obit every day. You’re making the lead paragraph positive and constructive, or not.”

She continues: ”Someone’s going to sum you up one day. You want to live your professional life in a way that they can write good things.”

While she is focusing on people’s professional lives, one could also say this applies to our personal lives, too. So, what about you? If you had to write your obituary today and summarize your life, would you find a lot of positive things to write about — or would you find something else? What kind of life, whether professional or person, do you want to lead?
Write to us.

WRITER’S PROMPT: Your Favorite Movie(s)

September 29th, 2009

When I was a kid, Saturday was movie day. My mother would give my brother and me lunch bags full of sandwiches and fruit and money to get into the matinee and we’d spend hours there. Sometimes at the end of the matinee we would hide in the bathroom until the early evening show would begin so that we could see a whole new set of movies without having to pay again. I loved the darkness of the theatre and the new worlds the movies would take me to. Those were some of the happiest afternoons of my life.
Even today my wife and I take sandwiches to the movies on weekends and have the greatest of times sitting in the dark, watching, living, enjoying, learning, laughing, crying from what we see.
What about you? How important are movies to you? Do you have some favorites or ones which had a big effect on you and changed you and the way you see the world?

WRITER’S PROMPT: Capturing a Favorite Moment

September 28th, 2009

Make believe that you had a net to catch a favorite moment in your life.  Which would it be?

Share with us.

WRITER’S PROMPT: If You Had Wings to Fly…

September 23rd, 2009

Make believe that you had wings to fly. Where would you go with your life?
Share with us.