Rory’s Questionnaire and Answers

Thank you, Rory! I feel most of my readers know me pretty well, but here goes:

  1. My blog name is: The Bag Lady
  2. I have no specific genre unless there is one titled: scribbling.
  3. I started the blog in 2015 but it didn’t take off till the next year.
  4. I was encouraged by a great guy I met online as I was fooling around on my iPad trying to distract myself recuperating in the hospital.
  5. Don’t you know you are never supposed to ask a woman’s age?😄 I attempted poetry around the age of 50 I think, many moons ago.
  6. I have three older creative sisters but at the later age of fifty I found time to explore it.
  7. Both, actually. I write about my experiences, family and if a Prompt strikes a thought, I try it too.
  8. I probably write too much. Mostly, I try combining prompts to not flood the Reader.
  9. Just WP. I like the community.
  10. Never
  11. Obviously I haven’t hit a block yet…sorry about that🙄
  12. Scribbling
  13. I’ve met so many interesting people since I started, it’s amazing and wonderful. I have lots of time on my hands since my legs stopped working, so I’m an armchair explorer so to speak.
  14. It could be anything, a word a picture, an event just occurred, or a family happening, such as today’s post about my granddaughter’s play we saw last night.
  15. I have no advice, I’m technically vapid, but be yourself, do your own thing.
  16. No strategy, I just love it. I tried strategy, bringing awareness to bladder and uterine cancer, cancer in general. . .turns out no one wants to read it. However, I have a four year checkup next month and I will write about it.
  17. Not really, of course I try to engage readers as we all do, but basically I write to get my feelings and frustrations out. I do engage with others, and that is a reward for me.
  18. Yes it would. I love comments, don’t always get them, but if someone takes the time to comment, you know they’ve read it.
  19. Depends. I like to keep it short and (mostly) sweet. I have had times when I get carried away and find a 300 word limit turned into a 800+ word story but not often.
  20. Any of my posts I like aren’t usually the most read or favored. I couldn’t say.
  1. My advice? Just write. Write about anything and everything, be yourself, be honest.

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Well Rory, I hope these answers are okay. I admire your tenacity in the blog. You have great ideas and promoting others is a reward for everyone.

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Family Treat

We all went to see my granddaughter’s new play at the community college last night. It is amazing to see such young people bring forth performances like this!

The main character a fifteen year old boy with autism played fantastically by Brandon Brown.

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https://rugby843.blog

Sammiscribbles Weekend Writing Prompt #104

Pulling out the old iPad

Always a treat, rarely sad

Start my morning routine

With coffee and the iPad screen

Many comic posts to meander

Or recipe site using coriander

Mental health written with candor

Lover of pets–a salamander?

All these types of posts are pandered.

https://sammiscribbles.wordpress.com/2019/05/04/weekend-writing-prompt-104-meander/#like-3737

MLMM Saturday Mix

The tall pines on the hill poked at the clouds-

odd shaped marshmallows drifting in a sea of blue

Meanwhile specks of coal fluttered by in distant coveys

seeking dinner served on a green carpet

Frightened fawns warily slipped in and out from spiky cushions

uneasy in their living room couches of large bush

Our obtrusive visit shunned by peeking fern fronds

Two legged visitors were not welcome here.

https://mindlovemiserysmenagerie.wordpress.com/2019/05/04/saturday-mix-unique-personality-4-may-2019/

Word of the Day : Delight

Many thoughts come to mind with the word delight. Just this week I made a comfort food lunch, Gypsy Delight, which is an egg on bread with a hole in the middle so the egg flares out on both sides, fried with butter. I’ve heard it called different things, but my mom used GD.

Then there’s the afternoon delight. . .those were the good old days : )

A look on a child’s face, seeing anything. . .when do we lose that feeling of delight?

A father’s expression seeing his new born child.

Expression on a person’s face seeing their 80th birthday cake.

A delight for me was seeing this pic taken by my granddaughter while shopping. It’s finding beauty in the mundane, which I believe is an essential element of happiness.

There are lots of delights in the world, pbysical, spiritual, natural, visual and audible. Enjoy!

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Delight – Word of the Day Challenge

SoCS May–are you really sure? 4-2019

Just read a news report that Warren AFB located here in Cheyenne sent people for the launch in California of an unarmed ICBM for testing. It landed near the Marshall Islands. The article further explained that Warren AFB might be an ideal target for enemies with such devices. Talk about falling from the sky! Is it not bad enough we live in a brown, decorated with cement, extremely windy so even a sixty degree day feels like winter, non garden spot? Reports on a different page suggest Cheyenne is growing rapidly–why is certainly unclear to me.

Happy Saturday, people!😎

http://lindaghill.com/2019/05/03/the-friday-reminder-and-prompt-for-socs-may-4-19/

The Haunted Wordsmith 5-3-2019

“I’m hitting play!” Julie, being in her thirties, unmarried, but an oh so available participant, couldn’t wait to play on the new website. It was Saturday morning and the three women were gathered around Mary’s big screened monitor.

She and her friends were bored of playing Scrabble every Friday night, just the three of them, so changed it up a bit, often changing the rules. That is when they got their big idea.

“I need a D to use this word. “The others asked, “what word?” “Wizard” she said, and they all nodded in agreement it was a great word.

Next, it was Sylvia’s turn who was holding up two letters staring at the word net, hoping to add to it. She only had an H and an E left so she placed them in front of net, forming henet. “That’s not a word!” the others exclaimed.

“It is now” Sylvia laughed. Sylvia Googled the word finding the website title had not been claimed, and purchased it on the spot. They busily perused other dating sites, asking for photos of willing men. Their site was up and running the next day.

https://thehauntedwordsmith.wordpress.com/2019/05/03/prompt-may-3/