When the thoughts just aren’t there

There were days not too long ago when my thoughts tumbled down like water gushing from broken pipes. I couldn’t write fast enough. Almost mindlessly, my fingers danced across the keyboard, capturing the moments and ideas as they fled across my brain. Prolific posts vomited onto my blog, poems to the group I belong to, and nostalgia splattered here and there into Word documents when the ‘Net wasn’t available.

Suddenly, the thoughts tangled, the digits paused for just a moment too long, and the words stopped altogether. Now, the ideas just aren’t there.

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Author: Mack Ames

I teach adult education, including high school equivalency test prep, adult basic education, and Work Ready for Corrections, a workplace readiness course at a correctional facility. I am married with two sons in high school. I have a dry sense of humor and try not to take myself more seriously than necessary.

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