Month: January 2026

Hello, and welcome to this week’s Friday 5! Please copy these questions to your webspace. Answer the questions there; then leave a comment below so we’ll all know where to check out your responses. Please don’t forget to link us from your website!

Apologies if I’m sorta stuck on variations of a theme. I usually space these ideas out but I’m still enjoying this one. I guess I’m in my slang era. 🙂 Next week maybe we’ll go back to bird puns or questions about red foods.

Also: I would never tell you what to write, but I will encourage you to be kind to yourself. The world could use as much kindness as it can get, and there’s nothing wrong with sending some in your own direction. <3

1. When were you most recently looking like a snack?
2. What is your current outfit giving?
3. Of stuff you’re consuming these days, what really slaps?
4. What era are you in?
5. What might you do today to broadcast main character energy?

Thank you for participating, and please take care of yourself and the people around you this weekend.

Hello, and welcome to this week’s Friday 5! Please copy these questions to your webspace. Answer the questions there; then leave a comment below so we’ll all know where to check out your responses. Please don’t forget to link us from your website!

I’m slowly getting a handle on things, as evidenced by this set of questions, posted only three hours later than my weekly goal. I confess I’m still slightly behind on reading your responses, but I do (and always have) read every response. These past few months have been a lot. I thank you for your continued participation. It really is a weekly highlight for me!

These are questions I ask friends when I haven’t seen them for a while. Some may have been asked in this space before, but they’ll work because I’m sure I haven’t asked them in a long time, and answers change!

1. What are you learning these days?
2. What’s been energizing you lately?
3. What are you reading?*
4. What’s the best thing you ate recently?**
5. What are you doing differently today from a year ago?***

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

* Because I organize a book club, I sincerely ask this question at least twenty times a month
** Usually this is, “What was the best thing you ate on your recent trip?”
*** Usually this is, “What are you doing differently today from the last time I saw you?”

Hello, and welcome to this week’s Friday 5! Please copy these questions to your webspace. Answer the question there; then leave a comment below so we’ll all know where to check out your responses. Please don’t forget to link us from your website!

1. When did you last experience something that was totally tubular?
2. When did you last see something that was grody to the max?
3. What’s your damage?
4. When did you recently feel like a neo-maxi zoom dweebie?
5. When did someone bite you, and when did you bite someone else?

Thanks for participating, and have a def weekend, word? Word!

Here’s to the new year and to fresh starts. I love the new year, and January is my favorite month. I like hellos so much more than goodbyes, sunrises more than sunsets, beginnings more than endings, and first chapters more than concluding chapters*.

Alas, sometimes the freshest of starts are a little slow out of the gates. I did get to bed earlier than usual — but still half an hour later than my goal. I got up exactly when I intended, but took longer getting ready for work and only got out the door half an hour earlier than usual, which was half an hour later than I planned.

(speaking of planners, i did also manage to give mine a look before bed and after i got up — a first step toward what i hope is a slightly more organized existence. if you’re a primary or secondary educator, you’ll know what i mean when i say most of the complications in my daily living are issues related to executive function)

And although I’m sharing this seven hours earlier than last week, it’s a full 25 hours later than my weekly deadline. Yikes.

Still, I am determined to make 2026 better than 2025, and so far it is! May it be thus for us all, whatever our experiences from last year and whatever our hopes for this year.

Welcome to this week’s Friday 5! Please copy these questions to your webspace. Answer the questions there; then leave a comment below so we’ll all know where to check out your responses. Please don’t forget to link us from your website!

1. What is your favorite movie about a fresh start?
2. What is your favorite post-apocalyptic movie?
3. What is your favorite animal movie?
4. What is your favorite me-against-nature movie?
5. What is your favorite movie about forgiveness, atonement, or mercy?

Thanks for participating, and have a wonderful, safe, happy new year.

* (although lately I wonder if there’s ever been an opening line as good as this closing line by A. A. Milne: “But wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the Forest a little boy and his Bear will always be playing.”)