Chris' Christian Blog

May 11, 2020

Prompt: "Look at a picture from your younger years. You don’t have to share the photo with us, but try to describe it in as much detail as possible. What led up to the photo being taken and what happened after?"

The picture has a little red-headed, freckle-faced me standing there wearing a western outfit, cowboy hat, and set of toy pistols my mom and dad bought me for Christmas. I was just a young child, barely nine years old. I remember the day well, A short while later, maybe an hour and our house burned down.

"Prompt: Morning noises"

The only morning noise I ever hear is a duo of women singing "Good morning" on my alarm. I find it to be very annoying but it never fails to make me roll out of bed. For that I am grateful though because I have to get up. It's just a very irritating sound, which is partly why I chose it. I knew it would get me up, if for not other reason than to not have to hear the grating voice.

"Prompt: “But mothers lie. It's in the job description,” says John Green. In your opinion, through which ways can mothers lie?"

My mother lied to us about the cherries that go in mixed fruit. She told us they were poison unless cooked so that we would not eat them before she needed them. We never touched them.