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Friday, December 21, 2012

Chapter 7: Paved With Good Intentions

It was a date Margaret finally accepted against her better judgment. Ed Bailey was a customer at the diner, and he’d been pestering her to go out with him for months. She always turned him down. What was the point? For one thing, he wasn’t very interesting. He worked at a garage somewhere in... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, December 20, 2012

Chapter 6: Hiding Out. (excerpt)

This chapter is about to get a rewrite. During the NaNoWriMo marathon, I told it from the kids' point of view. This is Margaret's story, so it must be told from her POV. So what's written here will either be cut or revised. In 1946 mothers didn't ask the kids whether they wanted to move to a new... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Another Christmas Present!

We went to St. Thomas' Episcopal Church last night for the children's Christmas program. St. Thomas also has a day care, so the toddlers had their teachers / drama coaches right there to help them portray little lambs and shepherds, winged angels with wire halos, Mary and Joseph and the Three Kings,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Excerpt: from The Seventh Dimension

Margaret found herself one pleasant morning on a strangely familiar street, very like San Diego in the 1930s. A heavenly scent beckoned her into a quaint little coffee shop. Henry Lagroix sat at a table inside. She wasn’t really surprised to find him there. Bad pennies have a way of turning up. A... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, December 17, 2012

Surprise! Surprise! and a Ho! Ho! Ho!

Son Guy came by on Friday to take me to Annie's little shop for ice cream, something we'd thought about earlier but we both had things to do. I was involved at the moment with my mom's story, working on some dialog and a scene and I didn't want to leave my keyboard to go traipsing across town for a... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, December 16, 2012

Therapy

I have since seventh grade used writing to figure things out. There were things that bugged me then, issues with my mother mostly, constant worry about everything, so I started writing letters to her, folding them into envelopes and hiding them in an old cigar box I kept in my underwear drawer. I'd... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, December 15, 2012

Sandy Hook Elementary added to list of massacre sites.

It's all we could think about or talk about, with tears flowing and wanting nothing more than to hold and comfort those in shock and grief. Sandy Hook Elementary, once an everyday school in a small town, now the latest and worst crime scene where innocents were slaughtered. It breaks my heart, makes... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, December 14, 2012

Aces and Eights

Eight knew too much. Flat out, that’s what got him killed. Everybody on the street knows he can’t keep his business to himself. Add wrong place, wrong time to the deal and he's dead man walking for a week before Jack catches up with him. Funny part is Jack's already a day late and a dollar short.... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, December 13, 2012

The Peacetime Navy - Lagroix shapes up.

The day he was to report for duty, Lee got up early, sneaked out of their room as his brothers slept, set his packed bag outside the Regal’s kitchen door. He had to be at the recruiting office at nine, which meant he’d have to duck out halfway through the breakfast rush. He took the first load of... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, December 12, 2012

The Medium is the Message: Christmas Lights

Just when I think this guy I know has gotten over the beyutch that done him wrong, something comes up to show she's still on his mind. We've all been there: we think it's over, the flame is out, what's past is past. And then something pops up. "Our" song becomes the background theme for some... Sign in to see full entry.

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