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My Hero — My Heroine — My Characters
Every story has a main character or two. A villain, a hero, a heroine. Good guys, bad guys, and gals. Even your short stories have girls and guys in various stages of love, hate, and madness. You have...
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Grammar Is Your Friend
We all have our pet peeves, don’t we? In an irritating society there are plenty of irritating habits that make your skin crawl and your patience disappear. People chewing with their mouth open,...
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How Do You Satisfy Your Creative Cravings?
I am of the belief that writing is as much fun as painting or photography or sculpture or any other Creative Art. Yes, it’s frustrating, time-consuming, methodical, stressful, and more. It’s also...
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Happy Saturday!
It is a beautiful Saturday afternoon outside. I have done half of my chores, and am thinking about the rest of them as I pop into Word Press. A mistake? Depends on what I pop in here for. I’m sure it’s...
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Give It A Rest!
Does this ever happen to you? You work hard on finishing your project. The afghan you are crocheting (a couple of my friends are into this). Your last piece of art for the craft show. (In my case)...
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#AppreciateYourCreativeFriendsWeek! Part 2
A number of you may know (and follow) my second creative friend. David Kanigan creates his blog Live and Learn with thoughts, quotes, research, and philosophy. I mean he’s amazing. I have no idea how...
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#AppreciateYourCreativeFriendsWeek! Part 4
One of the easiest kind of blogs to follow — and the most fulfilling — are poetry blogs. I know there are a zillion of them out there…poetry is just one of those techniques that speak straight from the...
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#AppreciateYourCreativeFriendsWeek! Finale
I wish I could keep this celebration going on forever! I follow a lot of fun, interesting bloggers, each deserving a direct link for you to dance along. There are thousands and thousands of bloggers...
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The Path Not Taken
Today, like any other weekday, was a work day. Filling in spreadsheets with numbers and relationships and variants. I used to do a little writing for my company, but with personnel changes and new...
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Retirement Comes For Us All
A good friend of mine retired today, with a little pomp and circumstance and an overly-sweet retirement cake. Cal is my work friend. He was the director of our Science catalogs, I was his coordinator...
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I’m Getting Published Part 2
The wonderfully exciting and exhausting adventure of printing my own book goes on. As many of you know, I’m planning on publishing 4 of my novels. I want to give them to my family and friends so they...
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Never Give Up Hope
I have a secret to tell you. First a disclaimer: if you are a workmate of mine, don’t tell anyone. I don’t want anyone at the company to get the wrong idea. Most artistic people hone their skills at...
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I’m Thankful For YOU
I have a story or two to tell you, but it will have to wait until Sunday or Monday. Gotta have turkey with the grandbabies — twice — and I can’t miss the love. So for now, I hope you have a wonderful...
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Who are you, really?
Thanksgiving is now a memory, the extra pounds an effort. But I am happy to report that along with an extra pound or two I also regained my enthusiasm for writing. Do you ever go through those dry...
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To Thine Own Self Be True
How are you this fine evening? Are you sitting on the veranda, a soft, warm breeze encouraging you to watch the stars come out? Are you cuddled under a soft, velvety throw, your features softened by...
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Have A Mishmash In Your Head?
A mishmash of thoughts this Monday evening…. It has been five days since I made the vow to dump sensationalized social media. I am happy to report that I haven’t a clue as to what Trump is tweeting nor...
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You’re A Writer, Huh?
Happy Saturday Y’all! Warmth came to Wisconsin today, teasing us with sunshine and soft breezes. Makes us think Spring is here. But we know better… So sitting down to write (and I don’t mean commenting...
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Make Sure You Want to Hop That Fence
This is one of those posts where the title could go either way: Don’t give up on your dreams or Be careful what you dream for Those of you who have followed me through the years know I’m a 65 year-old...
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What Is Your Title?
Things are swinging around here lately. It seems like I haven’t felt like writing lately, except for my blog. Me. A writer. Not writing. I seem to be getting more into the Art thing more than the...
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Do We “Get” Each Other?
There is a certain responsibility as a blog writer and a blog follower. You need to write content that is entertaining, whether it be sad, provocative, funny, or informative. But you need to read the...
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