Tag: Childhood

Saturday Six Word Story Prompt: Childhood

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Prompt for Week #112 (Nov 16, 2024 – Nov 22, 2024): CHILDHOOD

Title: My Upbringing

Six Words: Robbed of childhood–adult b e f o r e time.

It’s time for Shweta Suresh’s Saturday Six Word Story Prompt! This week’s theme is “Childhood” and here are the prompt details:

Welcome to Week #112 of the Saturday Six Word Story Prompt. Click here to read the guidelines for the Saturday Six Word Story Prompt series. (Psst! I have changed the guidelines recently.)

Prompt for Week #112 (Nov 16, 2024 – Nov 22, 2024)

Childhood

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I will do a roundup post each Saturday (or Sunday if I run out of time!). So please be sure to participate before time runs out! I can’t wait to read your stories. 😀 I hope that you’ll be back for next week’s Six Word Story Prompt. Have fun! Thank you for participating. Until next week, folks!

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My six-word contribution is above. I had a playful, endearing, active, and fun childhood until my parents’ divorce when I was twelve years old, and then . . . all hell broke loose. I became a parent to my much younger siblings- mothering them before I was done being mothered. It’s a heavy thing to take on a role you never asked for, however, you had to step up and perform. “Childhood” is a great theme, and I am happy I could participate. Maybe you want to as well!

Also, 18 years have passed by so quickly. I swear I blinked and here we are . . .

WordPress screen capture; 18 years of blogging. THANK YOU!

Peace and blessings, beautiful people.

Remembering My Happy Place

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A Book Review

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl. Photo Credit: Tremaine L. Loadholt

When I was a child, before I became an adult before my time, it didn’t take much to put a smile on my face. I was active; I played sports, read many books, did a ton of writing, and watched movies/famous television shows.

And of course, I tore up and down the city streets with my friends, but I ensured I was inside before the street lights came on.

So, it’s no wonder, I would find myself nesting inside my happy place while reading Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. It is a beautiful place to be, and while I’m in my forties now, I feel a stronger connection to all things pure & serene.

Below is the review I did for this incredible work of fiction by such an amazing writer who was well before his time:

“Reading This Brought Back So Many Memories

And I was in my happy place for the entire reading of this book. Roald Dahl was such a master of words and personification. He truly painted so many vivid and distinctive images in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

This book is a stress-reliever. I laughed and slapped my knee at some of the verses shared by the Oompa-Loompas of the mischievously selfish and rude children. Everything about the book transported me to my grade school years.

I imagined myself in the children’s shoes; taste-testing many of Mr. Wonka’s unique creations and drinking from a chocolate river. My sweet tooth was ignited with every turn of the page.

It brought back so many memories of enjoying Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory with Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka. I found myself linking some of the scenes in the movie to a lot of the scenes described in the book.

I knew I would enjoy every moment of reading this book, and I am glad I did so.

If you feel like being nostalgic and traveling down old roads of yore, I recommend Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. You’ll definitely be happy you went along for the ride!”

During these current times, while fires blaze and wars continue to rage on, we could all use more happy places.