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Cocktail Maven: May 2008
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Culture, cocktails, and my latest obsessions. Tuesday, May 27, 2008. PROMPTuesday #6 - Don't Be Yourself. San Diego Momma's PROMPTuesday #6. 8220;Hey, shrimp! 8221; . . Tuesday, May 20, 2008. PROMPTuesday #5 - It's All in the Tone. San Diego Momma's PROMPTuesday #5. I wake up lying in the street. Quite literally in the gutter. I wait for the world to coalesce beyond the gray mist that surrounds me. High above, a gaslight flickers. Night, then. It is not my eyes that have betrayed me&#...Long enough to wa...
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Cocktail Maven: October 2010
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Culture, cocktails, and my latest obsessions. Tuesday, October 26, 2010. San Diego Momma's PrompTuesday #127:. Write a story about a vice. So, in the spirit of the season, I offer the following tidbit. He’d lost count after the first twenty. From his vantage point on the highest deck, the women formed brightly-colored sluices between the black tuxedos and white-jacketed servers. His eyes alighted on the woman now adorning Anatole’s arm. She was particularly to his own taste. Oh, how he missed wine. It...
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Cocktail Maven: April 2008
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Culture, cocktails, and my latest obsessions. Tuesday, April 29, 2008. PROMPTuesday #2 - Step Out of Your Crate. San Diego Momma's PROMPTuesday #2. In the spirit of TED. I think it is safe to say, that we have all explored virtually every nook and cranny of our own homes (with perhaps the exception of the spider-infested crawlspace underneath). But really, that depends on what you consider home. Is your house your home? How much of your HOME have you really explored? Out of the Crate. Here's what she thr...
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Cocktail Maven: PROMPTuesday #127: Vice
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Culture, cocktails, and my latest obsessions. Tuesday, October 26, 2010. San Diego Momma's PrompTuesday #127:. Write a story about a vice. So, in the spirit of the season, I offer the following tidbit. He’d lost count after the first twenty. From his vantage point on the highest deck, the women formed brightly-colored sluices between the black tuxedos and white-jacketed servers. His eyes alighted on the woman now adorning Anatole’s arm. She was particularly to his own taste. Oh, how he missed wine. Revie...
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Cocktail Maven: November 2008
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Culture, cocktails, and my latest obsessions. Tuesday, November 25, 2008. PrompTuesday # 32: One Word. I took today’s PROMPTuesday from One Word to keep it simple this week (especially after the labyrinth-like PROMPT from last Tuesday. So this week, write on this:. On the subway platform, a six year old black girl clutched her little sister’s hand, and held her breath. 8220;What’s the matter with that man? The man. Where did he go? Within seconds, the train roared out of the tunnel. The squeal of the...
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Cocktail Maven: January 2009
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Culture, cocktails, and my latest obsessions. Wednesday, January 7, 2009. Literary Love Affairs, Part I: Or Why I Talk to Squirrels. San Diego Momma’s second PrompTuesday of 2009. Is a doozy. She’s asking us what our favorite book is and why. Book Did you catch that? Yes Hence this first installment of what may be a completely tedious exercise in literary navel-gazing. Let's call this:. Part One: The Dr. Seuss Years. One Fish, Two Fish. Ingeniously, these book clubs send out books of ever-increasing comp...
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Cocktail Maven: June 2008
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Culture, cocktails, and my latest obsessions. Tuesday, June 24, 2008. PROMPTuesday #10 - Dream Book. San Diego Momma's PROMPTuesday #10. You’re in a bookstore. You see stacks and stacks of books, but one in particular catches your eye. Something about the title. You’re intrigued. You pick the book up, open it, and read the first paragraph. Now you’re hooked. What is the title of the book and what did the first paragraph say? THE CAVALIER OF KENSINGTON PARK. Time Enough at Last. Tuesday, June 10, 2008.
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Cocktail Maven: June 2009
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Culture, cocktails, and my latest obsessions. Tuesday, June 23, 2009. PROMPTuesday #61: Imagine That. San Diego Momma's PROMPTuesday #61:. For this week’s PROMPTuesday, describe an experience you have never had but have heard about and can imagine. Describe this experience in the first person singular, present tense as it is happening. Every word of this is true. Is that cheating? They are like a plague on the freeway this morning. Where do they all come from, and why are they picking on me? That little ...
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Cocktail Maven: July 2008
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Culture, cocktails, and my latest obsessions. Tuesday, July 29, 2008. PROMPTuesday #15 - One Word Says It All. San Diego Momma's PROMPTuesday #15. Write about deception. Whatever that means to you. Can be fact or fiction. And a man of station. Gets a hot new secretary. Tuesday, July 15, 2008. PROMPTuesday #13 - Finish It. San Diego Momma's PROMPTuesday #13. For today’s exercise, I’d love you to add to the sentences provided below. Complete the paragraph and continue the story. I screamed after her. I con...