The aide propelled the woman in the wheelchair to my table where I had my arms propped up on the table. She turned to me and said “Smeigh, this is Hazel, she is new here.”
I turned to her and said my proper name is not just Smeigh. You can call me Ms. Smeigh or Teresa, but do not call me simply, Smeigh!”
I found that to be extremely rude. We are not young kids playing together and calling each other by our last names as kids tend to do.
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Tessa–
Advocate for mental health and invisible illnesses
Can you tell a story in 29 words? You must use the following words somewhere in the story:
THUMB
MOSAIC
CHAMPAGNE
STUDENT
VACUUM
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Carrie ran her thumb over the broken mosaic pieces before she vacuumed them up. She was going out that night to visit a student and share a champagne toast.
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Tessa–
Advocate for mental health and invisible illnesses
We have a sentence today to inspire you – literally or metaphorically.
What killed the dinosaurs?
You can choose any genre you like, not necessarily kids or sci-fi as the words may suggest.
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Over my lifetime of almost 70 years, I have heard that the dinosaurs were killed off by the Ice Age. So, I decided to do some research, and Google had this to say about how the dinosaurs became extinct.
From what I can gather, they were killed off suddenly by an asteroid impact 66 million years ago. The asteroid, larger than Mount Everest, was a force of nature beyond comprehension. It also says that volcanoes, another awe-inspiring force, played a part in the extinction of the large creatures. I didn’t see anything about the ice age being a reason particularly, but it does mention gradual changes to the earth’s climate being a part of the extinction. So, it could have been partly due to the ice age.
It is thought that an ancient flying bird survived the impact. And todays birds are thought to be descendants of the surviving flying dinosaurs.
Humans did not live simultaneously as dinosaurs despite all the movies that show them co-existing. People didn’t appear on Earth until nearly 65 million years ago.
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Tessa–
Advocate for mental health and invisible illnesses
These are a few of my favorite things! It contains 9 sentences per the prompt.
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Scented candles (although we are banned from having anything with an open flame so I can’t have them here.)
An abundant supply of books. (My Kindle is full of several hundreds of books and I have an Amazon Kindle Unlimited membership so that I can have a constant supply of books on hand for free. The small membership fee is worth it considering how many books I ready per week.)
My computer (I am on my computer most of the day. I would hate to be without it.)
Access to Amazon.com (this allows me to get most of the things I need delivered to me here in the facility so that I don’t have to bother my kids for everything since I can’t drive anymore.)
Dearfoam Slippers (since I can’t wear shoes due to my feet swelling, I have to wear slippers and these are the only ones that I have found that fit my feet in this condition.)
Tessa–
Advocate for mental health and invisible illnesses
Choose one of these photos and tell a story based on it Winslow Homer – Metropolitan Museum Gift of Mrs. William F. Milton, 1923 Paul Cézanne – Metropolitan Museum Bequest of Stephen C. Clark, 1960 Léon Bonnat – Metropolitan Museum Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Bequest of Catharine Lorillard Wolfe, 1887
Regina struggled to keep herself and Randy afloat. He had suddenly disappeared under the waves and she jumped in to rescue him. Despite her training in water rescue he almost managed to pull them both under the water.
Finally she got a firm grip and began swimming to the shore, which seemed so far away as she maneuvered his almost dead weight steadily toward the sandy beach. As she reached the beach a man stepped out of the crowd and waded in to help her bring Randy the rest of the way in.
She performed CPR until he sputtered and spit out the water in his mouth. She pulled away so she didn’t take in a mouthful of the water herself. Randy struggled to sit up.
“What happened?” he managed to croak out.
“You suddenly went under a wave and I had to swim out and bring you in.You almost drowned both of us by grabbing onto me like you did. I was finally able to pull you in to the shore and I performed CPR on you to save your life. You can thank me now,” she said.
“Well thank you for rescuing me. I don’t know what happened as I am a strong swimmer normally, which I am sure you know about me.” Just then they heard sirens in the distance. One of the onlookers had called for an ambulance. Regina waited til they arrived to check him out before she continued her walk along the shoreline.
Tessa–
Advocate for mental health and invisible illnesses
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