• Locking Up Child Molesters

    If you had the power to change one law, what would it be and why? If I had the power to change one law, it would be giving child molesters a life sentence without parole. As a survivor of child molestation, I understand the harm that it causes the psyches of children. When I was…


  • A Break From BS

    Do you need a break? From what? Yes I need a break from a capitalist society that conditions people to believe that it’s normal to work from dawn to dusk for crumbs. I’m currently laid off and I can’t speak for anyone but myself but it’s felt great to not work. The anti-seizure medication I…


  • The Internet

    The most important invention in your lifetime is… The most important invention in my lifetime is the internet. Due to this invention, humanity now has millions of information literally at their fingertips. Whatever random thought or memory that they think of, people can now go to Google and look it up. Unfortunately despite having all…


  • My Most Idea Day From Dusk to Dawn

    Describe your most ideal day from beginning to end. My idea day would be rising leisurely from bed and stepping into my jacuzzi and taking a hot bath filled with peach scented bubbles. Then I would would rise like Aphrodite from the sea, and my handmaidens would pat me down with soft towels. Then I…


  • Writing😆😆😆

    Something on your “to-do list” that never gets done. Something on my “ to-do list” that never gets done is writing several blogs per week for my website. My intentions be great but my attention span is short so it never happens. Thank goodness for these prompts or my website would be dry as the…


  • Reading

    What do you enjoy doing most in your leisure time? What I enjoy during most during my leisure time is reading. Reading is one of my biggest pleasures right now I am reading Mama written by Terry McMillan who is best known for writing Waiting to Exhale which became a hit movie. Books are like…


  • The Museum of Science and Industry

    Name an attraction or town close to home that you still haven’t got around to visiting. I live in the same neighborhood as the above mentioned museum but I haven’t visited it since the 1980s. During that time, it was a meeting place for Black teenagers who lived on the South Side of Chicago, and…


  • The Cat Formally Known as Diddy

    If you could make your pet understand one thing, what would it be? If I could make my pet understand anything is that he needs to be quiet between the hours of 12am and 4am. Because I need my rest. That those hours is not the time to run around like a maniac and howl…


  • Kathy

    Write about your first name: its meaning, significance, etymology, etc. My first name means pure and it’s a shortened version of the name Katherine. The name Kathy is of Greek origins “Greek καθαρός (katharos)” which is cool, but as a child, I thought I had the most boring name around. During a time when my…


  • Writer Extraordinaire

    What’s your dream job? My dream job is a writer for either a magazine such as Vanity Fair or a writer for a local newspaper such as The Chicago Sun Times. Both of these entities need some fresh perspectives and I would absolutely perfect with my sense of humor, wit, and middle age around the…