Category: Daily Prompt

  • Painting-by-numbers made me a kid again

    In response to The Daily Post’s Daily Prompt: “Paint.” Background I am picking up painting with watercolours again after some twenty years. I will post more photos of my atttempts at art than of real-life scenes for a while because I have been spending my cocoa evenings with watercolour. For my readers who are here…

  • Beauty 301: Top 11 Tips and Tricks for Tweezing Eyebrows

    In response to The Daily Post’s Postaday Daily Prompts, Practice Makes Perfect. Practice makes perfect the skill of tweezing my eyebrows. The training over the years has taught me the following: 1. An affordable pair of tweezers performs the task as well as an expensive pair. 2. A good pair of tweezers has pinching ends…

  • Conversation with myself – David Copperfield

    In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Futures Past.” As a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up? How close or far are you from that vision? I wanted to be David Copperfield. Had I wanted to be like him – famous and commercially successful? Had I wanted to be a…