Your daily question

After more than four years of posting a new question every day, your Ten Thousand Questions bloggers are pausing for a few months.

During this time, if you want a new question every day, we invite you to look up the same date's posts in a previous year: 2009, 2010, 2011, or 2012.  To find old posts, look in blog archive in the blog's side panel.

Childhood (5)

In what ways did your childhood environment help shape who you are today?

Childhood (4)

While you were growing up, did you have your own bedroom, or did you share a room with others? Did you have a choice about how to arrange and decorate your room?

Childhood (3)

In your childhood, were there any people your parents specifically told you to stay away from?

Childhood (2)

What kinds of sounds did you hear around your childhood home? Were there loud sounds from far away that reached you, such as church bells, fire sirens, trains, or industrial activity?

Childhood (1)

Think about the place or places where you grew up.  Were your home and your neighborhood safe and comfortable places for you?

Tell us a story: marathon

Have you ever run a marathon? If not, what else have you done that required an extended period of continuous effort? 

Sorry about that

Of all the people you know, who probably most deserves an apology from you?

Learning (5)

What are you learning now — this month, this week, or today?

Learning (4)

What hard-won knowledge do you wish you could have learned more easily? 

Learning (3)

What was one thing that you were taught incorrectly at first and had to relearn later? 

Learning (2)

Are you a teacher?  What is one area of knowledge you've mastered well enough that you could teach it to other people?

Learning (1)

What is one lesson or skill that you learned at a younger age than most people?

Tell us a story: broken

What went to pieces through your actions or fell apart while you were responsible for it? 

When we all get together

Is food at the center of most of your social activities?

Extremes (5)

What was the largest event you ever attended, or the biggest crowd that you were a part of?

Extremes (4)

What was the biggest food item that you ever helped cook and/or eat?

Extremes (3)

What was your longest period of time traveling away from home?

Extremes (2)

What is something you do where success is measured by tiny details or depends on very delicate, small movements?

Extremes (1)

What's one of the riskiest or most reckless things you have done?

Tell us a story: lucky break

What is one miraculous or extremely lucky thing that happened to you recently? 

Blurring the dreamlines

What was a recent waking-life experience that seemed very dreamlike?  And what recent dream seemed all too realistic?

Stress (5)

Which do you worry about most: money issues, relationship conflicts, or potentially embarrassing social situations?