https://livesteven.com/2026/08/09/my-tip-beware-the-call-to-be-consistent/Steve_Bamlett_blogen2026-08-09T07:32:29+00:00My tip! Beware the call to be consistent!dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2841https://livesteven.com/2026/08/08/in-djamel-whites-novel-all-them-dogs-being-officially-an-adult-is-learning-to-no-longer-be-fighting-an-urge-to-pop-and-becoming-in-control-of-how-you-appear-and-how-much-you-visibly-rea/Steve_Bamlett_blogen2026-08-08T17:09:09+00:00In Djamel White’s novel ‘All Them Dogs’ being ‘officially an adult’ is learning to no longer be ‘fighting an urge to pop’ and becoming in control of how you appear and how much you visibly react: ‘Keep it there and keep it steady’. But in that novel the desire to be ‘officially an adult’ is the reason we lose responsibility for ‘the child’ we find in the world or inside us, failing to safeguard it: the mark of effective adult responsibility.dailyprompt, writing, books, book-review, fiction, booker-2026, dailyprompt-2855, djamel-white, all-them-dogs