Week Number 495

1) Just like "Everybody Wang Chung tonight!", what action would your name be if it were a verb?

2) Tell us about your favorite way to get lost in a simple activity — running, chopping vegetables, folding laundry, whatever. What’s it like when you’re in "the zone"?

3) How did you feel when your parents got upset with you? What was one of the things that caused them to be upset?

4) Show and Tell. What comes to mind first when you see this picture? Or, tell a story if it reminds you of one.

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Week Number 489

1) What do you like most about yourself?

2) If you had to describe yourself as a color, which would you choose?

3) Where was your "secret hideout" when you were a child?

4) Show and Tell. What comes to mind first when you see this picture? Or, tell a story if it reminds you of one.

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Week Number 483

1) What one rule did you always disagree with growing up?

2) What has been the most unconventional love in your life?

3) What color is the house or building directly across the street from your front window?

4) Show and Tell. What comes to mind first when you see this picture? Or, tell a story if it reminds you of one.

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Week Number 470

1) Tell us about the last time you had a real, deep, crying-from-laughing belly laugh.

2) When you were 10, what did you want to be when you grew up? What are you now? Are the two connected?

3) If you could erase one day in history which one would it be and why?

4) Show and Tell. What comes to mind first when you see this picture? Or, tell a story if it reminds you of one.

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Week Number 465

1) Looking at yourself objectively, would you honestly say you were a cute kid?

2) You’re going on a cross-country trip. Airplane, train, bus, or car?

3) Using the first letter of your middle name, write a sentence of at least 5 words that start with that letter.

4) Show and Tell. What comes to mind first when you see this picture? Or, tell a story if it reminds you of one.

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Week Number 464

1) Tell us something most people probably don't know about you.

2) Cast the movie of your life.

3) Are you still friends with anyone from grade school?

4) Show and Tell. What comes to mind first when you see this picture? Or, tell a story if it reminds you of one.

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Week Number 454

1) What would you do if someone cut in front of you when you were in line at the movies?

2) Pick a divisive issue currently in the news. Explain to the best of your ability both sides of the issue as if you believe each side.

3) When you were a child, who were your favorite relatives?

4) Show and Tell. What comes to mind first when you see this picture? Or, tell a story if it reminds you of one.

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Week Number 422

1) When was the last time you did something for the first time? What was it?

2) Tell five things you'd like to do on your next birthday.

3) As a child, did you enjoy school?

4) Show and Tell. What comes to mind first when you see this picture? Or, tell a story if it reminds you of one.

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Week Number 412

1) When was the last time you had a dream? What was it about?

2) Did you have a collection of some kind as a child? If so, what was it?

3) What was the worst concert you went to (who and when)?

4) Show and Tell. What comes to mind first when you see this picture? Or, tell a story if it reminds you of one.

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Week Number 376

1) Pool-side or beach?

2) What's the worst trouble you got into when you were young? What did you do?

3) When folding shirts, do you do the "store-fold" (sleeves folded over and back, then folded top to bottom) or the fold-in-half (sleeve-to-sleeve in half, then sleeves folded back) method?

4) Show and Tell. What comes to mind first when you see this picture? Or, tell a story if it reminds you of one.

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Week Number 364

1) What is something you have lost that you have never found?

2) If you had to do it over, would you change the name you gave a child or a pet?

3) Tell about your best (or worst) experience at summer camp.

4) Show and Tell. What comes to mind first when you see this picture? Or, tell a story if it reminds you of one.

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Week Number 360

1) Did you wear hand-me-downs as a kid?

2) What person or story in the Bible do you most closely identify with?

3) Are you a good teacher?

4) Show and Tell. What comes to mind first when you see this picture? Or, tell a story if it reminds you of one.

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Week Number 347

1) You were just given a yacht. What would you name it?

2) America's game: baseball or football? Or something else?

3) What was your favorite TV show when you were growing up?

4) Show and Tell. What comes to mind first when you see this picture? Or, tell a story if it reminds you of one.

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Week Number 304

1) You just moved to Sesame Street. Which Muppet is your new roommate? How do you think you two would get along?

2) Would you be willing to commit perjury in court for a close friend? What if your lie would save his or her life?

3) List a few of your favorite ways to bust up cabin fever in the middle of winter.

4) Show and Tell. What comes to mind first when you see this picture? Or, tell a story if it reminds you of one.

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Week Number 301

1) What do you usually want to know about someone when meeting them for the first time? Why is this information intriguing to you?

2) What season causes you the most health problems?

3) Do you still own any articles of clothing from your school years? Do you ever wear it/them?

4) Show and Tell. What comes to mind first when you see this picture? Or, tell a story if it reminds you of one.

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Week Number 278

1) Remember waking up when you were a kid to the "good" news that there was a snow day? How did you fill your newfound free time?

2) Name a book you found helpful. You can define “helpful” any way you want.

3) How many guns have you fired?

4) Show and Tell. What comes to mind first when you see this picture? Or, tell a story if it reminds you of one.

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For those in North America, Happy Belated Canada Day and Happy Fourth of July!

I'm so sorry about the delay--I set this to publish at midnight but told it PM not AM. Ugh.

Week Number 277

1) Pick an event from your childhood that you wish would have gone differently. Explain what happened, and what you would change if you could?

2) Who was the last person who maligned your character?

3) What's the nicest place you've stayed? What was the occasion? Did you do anything fancy?

4) Show and Tell. What comes to mind first when you see this picture? Or, tell a story if it reminds you of one.

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Week Number 224

1) Have you ever been to South America? If you had to go somewhere on that continent, where would you go?

2) What is the hardest promise you've ever kept?

3) When you see pictures of yourself as a child, do you think you look the same as you did then?

4) Show and Tell. What comes to mind first when you see this picture? Or, tell a story if it reminds you of one.

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Week Number 189

1) Among all your childhood friends, who had the parents everyone wanted to have?

2) Do you have relatives nearby? Or do you have to travel a ways to see family?

3) Are you a saver or a spender?

4) Show and Tell. What comes to mind first when you see this picture? Or, tell a story if it reminds you of one.

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Week Number 178

1) What time do/did you leave your house for school in the morning? What time does/did your school finish?

2) What sports do you enjoying watching in person? How about on TV?

3) Do you have a garden outside your house?

4) Show and Tell. What comes to mind first when you see this picture? Or, tell a story if it reminds you of one.

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