Prompt: Road Trip!

You’re going on a cross-country trip. Airplane, train, bus, car, or bike? I am all about the car-based road trip! It’s always an adventure and a good opportunity for bonding with your fellow travelers, be they friends, family, coworkers, or strangers you found on the internet. Of course, much planning and preparation must go into … Continue reading Prompt: Road Trip! →

Prompt: Shopping Spree

Daily writing promptWhere would you go on a shopping spree?View all responses I am going to exclude big box stores because they feel like cheating, since they carry everything, and I am excluding book stores because I am on a book buying fast for a bit. My favorite "toy" stores are Tractor Supply, Harbor Freight, … Continue reading Prompt: Shopping Spree →

Prompt: Patriotic?

Are you patriotic? What does being patriotic mean to you? Do I love my country? Yes. The word “patriotic” has been tarnished for me because it has been hijacked by certain factions who believe they are the “true patriots” and this has been exploited to divide us. That’s disgusting and shameful. Patriotism isn’t about having … Continue reading Prompt: Patriotic? →

Day 9: Childhood Lies

Reflect on a belief you’ve held since childhood. Is it still relevant or has your perspective changed? I was told a lot of things about myself that I believed until I turned 40 and turned a critical eye toward everything inside me. For instance, I had been told for my whole childhood that I was … Continue reading Day 9: Childhood Lies →

Prompt: The Title of My Biography

If there were a biography about you, what would the title be? The title would be either, “Here We Are Again,” or “Well, That Didn’t Work.”

January Review in 5 Lists

I’m only going to review my own January. In a more global sense, it wasn’t the best month ever, with the frigid weather in many states, the wildfires in California, the assorted public weirdness, etc. But that’s way outside my scope, and I literally (literally literally) don’t have the time or energy right now to … Continue reading January Review in 5 Lists →

Day 5

How do your values align with your current lifestyle and daily routines? Bold of you to assume I have routines and not just a chaotic jumble of putting out fires and doing the next urgent thing. I am married and I still have one minor child left at home, so a lot of how we … Continue reading Day 5 →

Prompt: 5 Fun Things

Daily writing promptList five things you do for fun.View all responses In no particular order: Crocheting. It's fun and it relieves my anxiety. Writing. This is fun for me. It's also sometimes frustrating. But so are... Video games. They give me challenges and dopamine. That's a win for me. Reading. I was put off reading … Continue reading Prompt: 5 Fun Things →

Prompt: (D) All of the Everything

What could you do differently? What I might do differently going forward is to try to eat better food, get some exercise of one sort or another, and sleep some normal amount at a routine time. I could also stand to get better at time management and allow the first hour of my day to … Continue reading Prompt: (D) All of the Everything →

Prompt: My billboard

If you had a freeway billboard, what would it say? If I were advertising myself, it would be a tasteful, colossal business card: Mia DeSanzo writer, artist, language constructor mia@themiaexperiment.com Raggedy. If I owned the billboard and was putting up a message from me to the world, it would say: Please don’t.