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Daily Prompt, 4/3/2024

Daily writing prompt

How would you improve your community?

I would run for the City Council or School Board if I didn’t have so many skeletons in my closet, but if I were significantly wealthy (and in the case of running for either, I’m realistic and know there’s no such thing as a free lunch), I would definitely contribute heavily financially to my community so it could afford things like actually getting another entire high school (since the one I used to go to has been through renovation after renovation since I graduated in 2002), have far more job opportunities than it currently has in pretty much every field for the experienced and inexperienced alike (since the job offers didn’t exactly roll in after I graduated undergrad college despite getting excellent grades), and so forth, among other things.

Daily Prompt, 2/12/2024

Posted on February 12 by Remy St. Gallen

If you had the power to change one law, what would it be and why?

Revise American campaign finance laws so that voters could only donate to or influence the campaigns of political candidates (through advertising or other means) for whom they’re actually legally able to vote, sort of like implementing the Westphalian system in that regard.

Daily Prompt, 1/28/2024

Posted on January 28 by Remy St. Gallen

Bloganuary writing prompt

What would you do if you won the lottery?

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I would pay off all the taxes and other debts first, tithe my church, donate a tenth split among whatever charities I support (chiefly AbleGamers and the Video Game History Foundation), give another tenth split among the families of all biological relatives I know, and put the rest in savings as an “emergency” fund while still continue living the way I do, not lavishly.

Daily Prompt, 5/28/2023

Posted on May 28, 2023 by Remy St. Gallen

Daily writing prompt

What does “having it all” mean to you? Is it attainable?

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Pretty much being financially stable and being able to continue my life as normally as I have been the decades before, and it would be continuable so long as I continue to advance my career so I can afford to support myself and the home I hope to inherit when my parents eventually pass on.