502. “How Has Travel Affected You?”

In response to The New York Times article “650 Prompts for Narrative and Personal Writing.”   502. “How Has Travel Affected You?”   Out past my window I see the World Trade Center tower, red brick warehouses, and two stacks of smoke, a New York City skyline glowing gray and […]

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483. “Does Being a Fan Help Define Who You Are?”

In response to The New York Times article “650 Prompts for Narrative and Personal Writing.”   483. “Does Being a Fan Help Define Who You Are?”   “No se cambia la camiseta.”   My uncle taught me that you can’t change your jersey. Sometimes you pick it, sometimes you are […]

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471. “Have You Ever Been In Love?”

(Blurry, soft image taken as a screen shot from Disclosure — “You & Me” Flume Remix video on Youtube)   In response to The New York Times article “650 Prompts for Narrative and Personal Writing.”   471. “Have You Ever Been In Love?”   What am I going to say, […]

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461. “Do You Have a Best Friend?”

In response to The New York Times article “650 Prompts for Narrative and Personal Writing.”   461. “Do You Have a Best Friend?”   If I could, I would make an edifice to friendship: a big round stone carved like an emoji, with a hundred different faces, each of the […]

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451. “What Have You Made Yourself?”

In response to The New York Times article “650 Prompts for Narrative and Personal Writing.”   2:31 PM. Brooklyn cafe, big windows. Lots of sunlight, rain and snow flakes. A friend of mine commented on a guy she likes and said he only concerns himself with his work. “I want […]

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403. “What Would You Like To Have Memorized?”

(Feature photo: “The Guidonian Hand,” a mnemonic device to aid the learning of sight singing; a precursor of Tonic Sol-fa; devised by the Guido di Arezzo.) In response to The New York Times article “650 Prompts for Narrative and Personal Writing.”   403. “What Would You Like To Have Memorized?” […]

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Language and Speech Questions 353-370

In response to The New York Times article “650 Prompts for Narrative and Personal Writing.”   353. “What Words Do You Hate?”   The Cambridge University Press textbook we use to teach English to intermediate students has a list of the top 500 most used words in the English language. […]

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351. “How Important Is Arts Education?”

(Image taken from “La cueva de las manos,” the Cave of Hands in Santa Cruz, Argentina: a site which would look like an act of vandalism, or the product of a children’s arts and crafts class, unless carbon-dated to 10,000 years ago.)   In response to The New York Times […]

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346. “What is Your Most Memorable Writing Assignment?”

In response to The New York Times article “650 Prompts for Narrative and Personal Writing.”   346. “What is Your Most Memorable Writing Assignment?”   In eleventh grade our English teacher assigned us a 20 page paper due at the end of the month. “On anything you want,” she answered […]

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323. “What Are the Best Books You’ve Read This Year?”

(Feature Image: Henry Miller Memorial Library) In response to The New York Times article “650 Prompts for Narrative and Personal Writing.”   323. “What Are the Best Books You’ve Read This Year?”   Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (art by Tzviatko Kinchev) Reading this novel, for Professor James Lasdun’s “Form […]

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315. “What Are Your Favorite Video Games?”

In response to The New York Times article “650 Prompts for Narrative and Personal Writing.”   315. “What Are Your Favorite Video Games?”   The games that took up a lot of my youth were the massive-multiplayer-online-role-playing types like Tibia, Ragnarok, and Age of Empires, which were all fantasy, and […]

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NYT Music questions 277 through 289

In response to The New York Times article “650 Prompts for Narrative and Personal Writing.”   277. “What Are You Listening To?” https://soundcloud.com/begun/bearoid-at-your-funeral-begun-remix   “Listen to this,” my buddy Andrew said, handing me his right headphone piece. The plane had taken off moments before. From the window you could see […]

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264. “How Real Are You on Social Media?”

In response to The New York Times article “650 Prompts for Narrative and Personal Writing.”   264. “How Real Are You on Social Media?”   Hah.   Well, I only use Instagram regularly, and Facebook once a week. Is this website social media?   I’ll admit, I use Facebook for […]

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244. “What’s So Great About YouTube?”

In response to The New York Times article “650 Prompts for Narrative and Personal Writing.”   244. “What’s So Great About YouTube?”   My buddy Greg keeps me up to date on much new music. Earlier this week, he sent me a Spotify link to the Mono No Aware compilation […]

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