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December 2025 Prompts
Jan. 1st, 2026 01:24 pmI haven’t seen a link for 2026 questions yet. If somebody has one, let me know.
1. What does death teach us about life? That it’s finite and, therefore, we shouldn’t put off doing the things that we think are important to us.
2. When was the last time you cried? I went through a couple of tissues when I watched the movie Song Sung Blue.
3. Would you be a different person today if you had a different childhood? How? Of course I would, but it would depend on what sort of different childhood I had. I think that growing up in a city would have provided a lot of opportunities I didn’t have living in a small town, for example. But there are certainly worse places I could have grown up, e.g. many places in the developing world.
4. Who did you run in to recently that you would like to spend more time with? I ran into one friend at the theatre a few couple of weeks ago and a few other friends at a movie a few days ago. But those are all people I spend time with somewhat regularly.
5. What's one job you would never want to do? Mining. It’s dirty and dangerous.
6. What if you lived your life in reverse (being born old, etc.)? That could be interesting, but I think I’d want to stop somewhere around my teens. I did have a happy childhood, but I don’t think I could deal with losing the ability to do things that require a certain level of maturity.
7. Have you ever swallowed something strange? (a key, pin, marble…) Not that I know of,, though perhaps some cooking experiments over the year might qualify.
8. What was your first favorite TV show? Maybe something like The Addams Family? Or the original version of Jeopardy! with Art Fleming.
9. Describe your first date. Does lunch and walking through Central Park in New York City count? Otherwise, probably a movie. Two specific movies I remember seeing with my high school boyfriend were Cinderella Liberty and Blazing Saddles.
10. What makes a good neighbor? Being quiet. And, particularly, not hanging pictures or assembling furniture with hammer and nails after 11 p.m.
11. What is the best advice you ever received? All jobs have a certain amount of routine. The secret to being satisfied with your job is finding something to do where you don’t mind those routine tasks.
12. What are your biggest distractions, and how can you minimize them? I’ll see something (a piece of mail or the like) out of the corner of my eye and have to look at it right away. If I actually put things away where they belong that wouldn’t happen.
13. How often do you cook at home? Pretty much every day that I’m home.
14. If we had 26 hours in a day, how would you spend those 2 extra hours? I’d like to say that I’d get enough sleep. But, realistically, I’d probably fiddle around on my phone.
15. What are five of your favourite songs right now? 1) Luck Be a Lady Tonight (from Guys and Dolls), 2) Southern Cross (Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young), 3) Johnny Can’t Dance (Wayne Toups and Zydecajun), 4) Give Paris One More Chance (Jonathan Richman), 5) La Oranguta (Pepe and the Bottle Blondes)
16. What ancient and/or extinct language would you like to be fluent in? Does Hebrew count?
17. What is your favourite misheard lyric? I can’t really think of anything offhand.
18. What's something about today that has surprised you? It is not quite 11:30 a.m. and I am almost halfway through my to-do list.
19. How do you uplift your spirits? I put on some lively music and dance around my living room. Or, I suppose, I could lift up a glass of some spirits.
20. What is your definition of luxury? Soaking in a bubble bath, then curling up under a nice thick quilt.
21. What would happen if all vehicles (car, bike, airplane etc) disappeared? How would this change your life? It would make traveling a lot slower. And it would make it very difficult to go overseas.
22. What’s something about your body or health that you’re grateful for? I rarely get headaches.
23. Tell a memory that you have with one of your grandmothers. My father’s mother died long before I was born. My mother’s mother died when I was about 9 years old and all I really remember about her is that she always had a pot of soup on a burner in the back of my grandpa’s jewelry store.
24. What age would you consider the prime of life? Why? I think I was at my peak when I was in my late 30’s through early 40’s. I was done with school, was making good money, and had lots of frequent flyer miles from business travel, so was able to start going to more adventurous destinations.
25. Is there something that you memorized long ago and still remember? Six wives Henry the Eighth wedded / One died, one survived, two divorced, two beheaded.
26. Write down three things you are grateful for. Central heating. Coffee. Storytelling.
27. What is something that you are not looking forward to doing today? My flight to Boston is delayed a half hour already.
28. How do you cope with stress? What strategies do you use? I don’t think I cope well with stress. Mostly I try to distract myself. Or kvetch to my friends.
29. What am I grateful to each of my 5 senses (vision, hearing, touch, smell and taste) for? Vision - seeing a magnificent work of art. Hearing - hearing an evocative piece of music, e.g. Copland’s Appalachian Spring. Touch - petting a cat. Smell - wild honeysuckle. Taste - chocolate
30. What is at each station of the all you can eat buffet of your dreams? I’m actually not a big fan of buffets, since I find they usually have way too much emphasis on quantity over quality. That said, I want really good crusty homemade bread, a salad with sesame ginger dressing, my favorite types of sushi (at least inari and nigiri with tuna), stir fried vegetables with garlic and ginger, gelato for dessert. If it’s winter, a hearty bean and barley soup. If it’s summer, all sorts of fresh berries.
31. What one experience do you think would make your life complete? I really want to see a narwhal in the wild.
1. What does death teach us about life? That it’s finite and, therefore, we shouldn’t put off doing the things that we think are important to us.
2. When was the last time you cried? I went through a couple of tissues when I watched the movie Song Sung Blue.
3. Would you be a different person today if you had a different childhood? How? Of course I would, but it would depend on what sort of different childhood I had. I think that growing up in a city would have provided a lot of opportunities I didn’t have living in a small town, for example. But there are certainly worse places I could have grown up, e.g. many places in the developing world.
4. Who did you run in to recently that you would like to spend more time with? I ran into one friend at the theatre a few couple of weeks ago and a few other friends at a movie a few days ago. But those are all people I spend time with somewhat regularly.
5. What's one job you would never want to do? Mining. It’s dirty and dangerous.
6. What if you lived your life in reverse (being born old, etc.)? That could be interesting, but I think I’d want to stop somewhere around my teens. I did have a happy childhood, but I don’t think I could deal with losing the ability to do things that require a certain level of maturity.
7. Have you ever swallowed something strange? (a key, pin, marble…) Not that I know of,, though perhaps some cooking experiments over the year might qualify.
8. What was your first favorite TV show? Maybe something like The Addams Family? Or the original version of Jeopardy! with Art Fleming.
9. Describe your first date. Does lunch and walking through Central Park in New York City count? Otherwise, probably a movie. Two specific movies I remember seeing with my high school boyfriend were Cinderella Liberty and Blazing Saddles.
10. What makes a good neighbor? Being quiet. And, particularly, not hanging pictures or assembling furniture with hammer and nails after 11 p.m.
11. What is the best advice you ever received? All jobs have a certain amount of routine. The secret to being satisfied with your job is finding something to do where you don’t mind those routine tasks.
12. What are your biggest distractions, and how can you minimize them? I’ll see something (a piece of mail or the like) out of the corner of my eye and have to look at it right away. If I actually put things away where they belong that wouldn’t happen.
13. How often do you cook at home? Pretty much every day that I’m home.
14. If we had 26 hours in a day, how would you spend those 2 extra hours? I’d like to say that I’d get enough sleep. But, realistically, I’d probably fiddle around on my phone.
15. What are five of your favourite songs right now? 1) Luck Be a Lady Tonight (from Guys and Dolls), 2) Southern Cross (Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young), 3) Johnny Can’t Dance (Wayne Toups and Zydecajun), 4) Give Paris One More Chance (Jonathan Richman), 5) La Oranguta (Pepe and the Bottle Blondes)
16. What ancient and/or extinct language would you like to be fluent in? Does Hebrew count?
17. What is your favourite misheard lyric? I can’t really think of anything offhand.
18. What's something about today that has surprised you? It is not quite 11:30 a.m. and I am almost halfway through my to-do list.
19. How do you uplift your spirits? I put on some lively music and dance around my living room. Or, I suppose, I could lift up a glass of some spirits.
20. What is your definition of luxury? Soaking in a bubble bath, then curling up under a nice thick quilt.
21. What would happen if all vehicles (car, bike, airplane etc) disappeared? How would this change your life? It would make traveling a lot slower. And it would make it very difficult to go overseas.
22. What’s something about your body or health that you’re grateful for? I rarely get headaches.
23. Tell a memory that you have with one of your grandmothers. My father’s mother died long before I was born. My mother’s mother died when I was about 9 years old and all I really remember about her is that she always had a pot of soup on a burner in the back of my grandpa’s jewelry store.
24. What age would you consider the prime of life? Why? I think I was at my peak when I was in my late 30’s through early 40’s. I was done with school, was making good money, and had lots of frequent flyer miles from business travel, so was able to start going to more adventurous destinations.
25. Is there something that you memorized long ago and still remember? Six wives Henry the Eighth wedded / One died, one survived, two divorced, two beheaded.
26. Write down three things you are grateful for. Central heating. Coffee. Storytelling.
27. What is something that you are not looking forward to doing today? My flight to Boston is delayed a half hour already.
28. How do you cope with stress? What strategies do you use? I don’t think I cope well with stress. Mostly I try to distract myself. Or kvetch to my friends.
29. What am I grateful to each of my 5 senses (vision, hearing, touch, smell and taste) for? Vision - seeing a magnificent work of art. Hearing - hearing an evocative piece of music, e.g. Copland’s Appalachian Spring. Touch - petting a cat. Smell - wild honeysuckle. Taste - chocolate
30. What is at each station of the all you can eat buffet of your dreams? I’m actually not a big fan of buffets, since I find they usually have way too much emphasis on quantity over quality. That said, I want really good crusty homemade bread, a salad with sesame ginger dressing, my favorite types of sushi (at least inari and nigiri with tuna), stir fried vegetables with garlic and ginger, gelato for dessert. If it’s winter, a hearty bean and barley soup. If it’s summer, all sorts of fresh berries.
31. What one experience do you think would make your life complete? I really want to see a narwhal in the wild.
