This month marks ten years of writing on this blog. I am going to attempt – and probably fail – at one of those write-every-day-for-a-month things. I cannot guarantee the quality of each day’s offering . . . but I do know that the only way to write anything good is to write, a lot, and then sift. I don’t imagine I have enough readers to merit much of a response to this query, but . . . if any of you following along have any questions or ideas for topics, do leave them in the comments!
We are watching Twin Peaks, for the first time – I did not catch it back when it originally aired. We have about 10 episodes left. It was a great beginning, but these last few episodes have devolved into a silly soap opera, and we are kind of slogging through the end here. I did not know that it also starred David Duchovny in drag, which was a pleasant and unexpected treat. X-Files is also on my list, after I’ve ended my foray into the creepy town where homecoming queen Laura Palmer met her demise.
I’m also watching Gilmore Girls on the nights to Professor is out of town. Although sometimes Lorelai Gilmore is a little to precious and cutesy, and some of the quirkiness of the town is too forced, I do enjoy it. I think Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel have a good chemistry, and although this, too, is devolving somewhat into soap opera, it never sinks to melodrama.
This is my tv experience. I wait a decade or two to be sure that the thing stands up to the test of time, and then commit. Maybe in fifteen years I’ll give Grays Anatomy or Mad Men a try.
I never watched Gilmore Girls but someone recently recommended it to me. I’ve been looking for shows to watch so let me know if you have good ones to refer! Started watching New Girl. I didn’t like it at first (Zooey Deschanel is kind of annoying) but now I think it’s super funny!
Broadchurch – but as a mother of sons, prepare to have your heart destroyed for a minute. The first season I basically watched in a day. There’s a second season, but I haven’t watched yet. We also liked Derek. Sweet and always mildly uncomfortable in it’s hilarity (it is Ricky Gervais after all).
But getting into writing topics…
It might be fun to go to your previous October archives, see what you’ve written on those days, and then see what that topic triggers for this year. (Like, reading 10/3/2010 on 10/3/2015 and seeing if it still relates, or how the weather is different, or if a story you told sparks a more recent memory.)
Bring back One Sentence Stories. Those were funny.
Or – Sundays = family observations/stories, Mondays = you stories, Tuesdays = Professor stories, Wednesdays Child 1, Thursdays Child 2, Fridays child 3, Saturday morning meal plans!
Of course, we can always eat up more just about those sons of yours.
I love reading your blog and am super-excited about you writing more! I am no writer, so I have no surefire prompts for you, but I love when you write about how one of your kids thinks, approaches a specific thing. I also would love to hear about law stuff – your job if you could, or else law-related stuff like legal education, etc. also I’ve never lived in Alabama so I would love to read about your physical location – what grows, what it looks like. I loved your New Orleans descriptions very much.
Thanks for putting this stuff out in the world.