Writing With Melissa: Boston. Nostalgia For Place.

Photo of Boston from Pixabay

Today I was thinking about Boston, MA. We are visiting in about three weeks, but I lived in Boston in the 1990s...a lifetime ago. I met my husband there. We got married in Cape Cod. We had our first child there. (Both my husband and my first child have now passed...a lifetime ago but also the blink of an eye.) We lived there until 2000, when we moved to Pittsburgh, where I still live.

Today's prompt is about place, and nostalgia.

1. Choose a place from your past ... it may be Boston, it may be another city or town, where you once lived. You may still live there, that's fine.
2. List ten things about that place that you know from having lived there.
3. Set your timer for 10-20 minutes, and write about things that used to exist in that place but no longer do.

Again, like yesterday, your writing may end up being nostalgic. 

The word nostalgia has origins from the Greek: nostos meaning return home and algos meaning pain. The pain of returning home. It comes to us through German, where it meant homesickness, and in the 18th century came to mean acute homesickness. It has now come to mean, "a sentimental longing or wistful affection for the past, typically for a period or place with happy personal associations," according to this online dictionary.

Follow the prompt, see where it takes you.

You can share any part of your writing below in the comments, or email me at WritingWithMelissa@gmail.com. I may read your work in the podcast, so if you want to remain anonymous let me know, otherwise you can include your name, where you are from, and contact info like a blog or social media.

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Be well,

Melissa