The Bag Lady

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Opinion, whoa! That’s a hot topic for you. Today, this year, last year, you choose…opinions are flying around like crows on carrion. Sorry, got carried away, as I am an old woman with lots of time on my hands to have opinions unexpressed. I am a liberal surrounded by Wyoming good ‘ol boys and gun carrying cowboys. Suppressed, oppressed, opinions stay quietly under a quilted red white and blue coverlet. I love my country even though it’s being a tantrum throwing toddler right now.

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Daily Prompt – JusJoJan the 11th, 2026

The ancient shape seemed to move and shift in a fluid motion. There might have been a moment of envy as I stood behind the professor, his beaming works with scrolls evident, but my own blunt reaction was that the truth in a scroll was indeed awesome, but the shape moving towards us made me stifle a frightening scream.

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Wordle 739

Too long at my kiln, pottery kit aside

Got a permanent kink in my right side.

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Three Things Challenge #MM301

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Weekend Writing Prompt #450 – Sweet

is there hope for the coming new year

can better hearts and minds see clear

future wanted to hold dear

the old that disappears

like sand through fingers

slips so quickly

sadly leaves

with hope

gone.

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W3 Prompt #193: Wea’ve Written Weekly

Fandango’s Flashback Friday — January 9th

Joe wished his inner mind had an inset which included an index of good thoughts. Then while reading the news, he could secretly tap that image.

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Three Things Challenge #MM299

What a week to give this prompt, especially me, because I can honestly say, don’t get me started! Remember the old tv show named “The Week That Was”? This would be one of those for sure. Michigan is suffering. Every day I wake up to see or read some unbelievably horrid news and the descent into madness. However, I am a lucky one, white, old, disabled, and no one messes with me. I don’t attend protests even though I’m there in mind. I live in Wyoming and there’s only a few people I can even converse with who feel the same about politics and religion. On the religious opinion I must say it puzzles me how someone can “believe” self-righteously and still act the way they do. What about the golden rule? What about love thy neighbor (they have a caveat-as long as you’re a white Christian). Well the prompt was don’t get me started and I guess I answered that. Okay, I’m ready for you, let me have it…

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The Friday Reminder for #SoCS & #JusJoJan 2026 Daily Prompt for Jan. 10th

It is my husband’s birthday today and he would have been 85 if he had not succumbed to esophageal cancer in 2013. However, I think of him on this day and wish he was here to celebrate. A bittersweet day as I’ve read other similar posts.

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JusJoJan 9/26 – Celebrate