Today’s Side Door will be the last one for a while. They’ll be back someday under their own tab, though, so let me know in the Comments if you’re going to miss them. ___ For today, write two pages about a time when you reached the end of the line. And please stay tuned: something [...]

  Write for two pages about a moment when the way became clear.

Write for two pages about a time when you changed directions.

Write for two pages about a time when you thought that maybe you had finally run out of words.

Sometime this afternoon, it occurred to me that I might not have written a prompt yesterday. What was I thinking? What is the boy in the photo thinking? Write for two pages about a time when you asked yourself what you were thinking.

Write for two pages about your roots or your trunk or your branches or your leaves.

Write for two pages about stairs that seemed especially steep from the bottom.

Sometimes traffic has to stop in order for you to get through. Write for two pages about a time when the drawbridge went up for you.

Write two pages that could precede these words: “Which is why, soon after, hardly a year into our marriage, I took off without even leaving a note.  A year later, divorce papers somehow caught up to me, FedExed to my motel room.  I signed them and even put a crisp hundred-dollar bill inside the envelope, [...]

The vernal equinox was yesterday at  1:32 pm EDT. The vernal equinox is not only, and not even really, the beginning of Spring, especially here in Miami, where there is no thaw, no significant change of foliage, and while temperatures are gradually going up, they were never really low. But regardless of location, the equinox [...]