Friday 5 for June 23: Be curious, not judgmental

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Questions inspired by a favorite show you don’t have to have seen. 🙂

  1. How do you feel about (or what do you think of) soccer, the sport known everywhere but in the U.S. as football?
  2. What have you been forgiven for?
  3. Who is the most joyful person you know?
  4. When were you most recently a fish out of water?
  5. Under which circumstances are you the best version of yourself?

I haven’t commented yet on everyone’s posts from last week, but I plan to. I found your responses interesting, engaging, and somehow touching. Thanks for participating last week, this week, and every week. Have a wonderful, safe, weekend, and believe — in yourself and in the people you count on. <3

Friday 5 for June 16: Euphemisms for romance repurposed for food

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Sorry these questions are posting a little late — it’s nearly five in the morning Friday in the middle of the Pacific, which makes it well into Friday on the U.S. East Coast. It’s been a week!

  1. What do you eat when you need something hot and heavy?
  2. When did you last go to bed with something edible?
  3. What’s an enjoyable meal that requires you to get busy?
  4. With which dining establishment do you think you could go steady, at least until the end of the year?
  5. With which snack would you like to have a summer fling?

Thanks for participating, and may you knock boots with something yummy this weekend!

Friday 5 for June 9: Themeless

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  1. What did you most recent affix a sticker to, and what was the sticker?
  2. What are your favorite and least favorite songs about weather?
  3. What turned out to be a good idea?
  4. Which errands should you probably run this weekend?
  5. What are your feelings about yogurt?

Thanks for participating, and have a yummy, safe weekend!

Friday 5 for June 2: Do you feel a draft?

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  1. Where do you frequently go for a breath of fresh air?
  2. In what way are you running against the wind?
  3. What item on your to-do list this weekend do you expect to be a breeze?
  4. What would you like to have completed by the end of August?
  5. What recent events in your life are worthiest of trumpeting?

Thanks for participating, and have a lovely, wonderful, airy, safe weekend!

Friday 5 for May 26: Discomfort

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  1. How ticklish are you?
  2. When did you most recently experience physical numbness?
  3. What’s caused you recently to squirm?
  4. What recently caused you to gag?
  5. Which item in your wardrobe is most uncomfortable to wear?

Thank you for participating, and have a lovely, wonderful, self-nurturing, amusing, safe weekend! May the heebie-jeebies and you be far, far apart!

Friday 5 for May 18: Circumstance and Pomp

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  1. What advice do you have for a high school grad getting ready to begin college?
  2. What advice do you have for a high school grad getting ready to enter the workforce?
  3. What advice do you have for a high school grad who doesn’t know what’s next?
  4. What advice do you have for a high school grad whose high school years were disappointing?
  5. What do you remember about your own graduation from high school?

Thanks for participating, and have a lovely, wonderful, safe, cozy, comfy, relaxing, restful, peaceful, safe weekend!

Friday 5 for May 12: Speed

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  1. What do you do very quickly?
  2. What do you do very slowly?
  3. What caused you most recently to be late for something?
  4. Today is the 132nd day of the year. Have the days gone quickly or slowly?
  5. What will you take your time on this weekend?

Thanks for participating, and have a peaceful, safe weekend!

Friday 5 for May 5: 子供の日

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May 5 is Children’s Day in Japan! If it seems the questions lately have skewed a certain ethnic direction, I promise it’s not some agenda. When you have an Asian American question-writer, a thing like this is going to happen occasionally. I’m not trying to make some kind of statement. 🙂

  1. Who was the last child, unrelated to you, you personally had a conversation with?
  2. Among things most children aren’t permitted to do, what should they be permitted to do?
  3. Some people say there are (generally) animal people and children people. Which are you?
  4. Which children’s books do you remember enjoying most?
  5. When did you last see koi in person?

Thanks for playing, and have a lovely, peaceful, restful, stress-free, safe weekend!

Friday 5 for April 28: You come back to the North Shore

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  1. What is the brightest article of clothing in your wardrobe?
  2. When did you last attend a live musical performance?
  3. When were you last in a bar, and what did you consume?
  4. When did you last bleed from a bodily injury?
  5. Who’s waiting far away for you to come and visit?

Thanks for participating, and have a lovely, warm, comfy, safe weekend! And when the wave breaks here, don’t be there!

Friday 5 for April 21: What’s it like?

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  1. What are your sunglasses like?
  2. What is your wallet like?
  3. What are your everyday shoes like?
  4. What is your umbrella like?
  5. What are your everyday drinking vessels like?

Thanks for participating, and have a lovely, wonderful, safe weekend!