John Holton is our host for Writer’s Workshop. Here are this week’s prompts:

  1. Write as post inspired by the word outfit.
  2. Write a post in exactly ten (10) sentences.
  3. What’s the most difficult thing about being you? Elaborate.
  4. What’s the story behind your greatest treasure?
  5. What bad decision did you make that actually turned out to be a good decision?
  6. Where was your secret hiding place as a child?

I don’t have a ton of memories from childhood, but what I do remember clearly is having the perfect hiding space outside our house.

Yes, I see the irony. I’m not an outdoor girly so what do you mean I voluntarily chose to sit out there with the dirt and the bugs and all the critter things? I can’t explain it, it is what it is.

Anyway, on the front corner of our house in northern Virginia there was a very tall pointy bush thing. (Doesn’t that sound oh so scientific?) It felt like a tree to me because I was a kid, but I don’t think it was. Man, it’s gonna bother me that I can’t think of what kind of plant it was. Let’s just say it was one of those tall bushes that had structured leaves, kind of like an evergreen only not because it was right on the house in the mulch bed.

Anyway, it was tall and well filled in so when I sat behind it I was hidden from the street and hidden from the house. It was the perfect hiding spot. I remember sitting back there with a book since I was constantly reading. I’m not really sure if that’s a true memory, but I do remember it was a good hiding place. I seem to remember another house where I would sit under the branches of a weeping willow…maybe I was a tree girly in my younger years.

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