2024 Personal Essay Writing Challenge: Day 1

Write a personal essay each day of the final week of June with the 2024 Personal Essay Challenge.  For today’s prompt, write about a work experience. Knickknack, Paddy-whack, Give a Dog a Bone Very early on, when I was nine or ten, I became the chief knickknack duster of our home. My mother, a widow, worked…

2024 April PAD Challenge: Day 2 and 3

This is the 17th annual April Poem-A-Day Challenge on Writer’s Digest.  I’m posting on two days’ prompts today because the website was not working yesterday! Seriously!!  Day 2 — The FIRST is a two-for-Tuesday prompt, which means I get two prompts. I can write a poem for one prompt, a poem for each prompt, or one…