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Monday, March 11, 2019

SAVING DAYLIGHT TIME

Man works from dawn till set of sun. Or he works as an independent contractor and does the job in his pajamas while sitting at the kitchen table, or driving an Uber to run errands for Corporate. It’s no longer tending the animals, cultivating the earth, keeping a weather eye on the sky. Ordinarily I... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, March 10, 2019

MARKETING 101

Actually, if I’d taken a few marketing courses along with the fiction writing and journalism classes I might have been a bit better at selling my story. If I’d put #MeToo as part of the plotline on Bloody Hell and a Slice of Pie, it might have caught the attention of more Amazon book buyers. There’s... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, March 9, 2019

THURSDAY AT THE CENTER - WRITE YOUR OWN STORY

Our topics for Thursday were the ones I mentioned yesterday, the old ways of raising kids – spare the rod & spoil the child, kids should be seen & not heard, etc. As always, I took notes as the others read their stories. As it happened, some of the stories touched on painful memories. The others’... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, March 8, 2019

WRITE YOUR OWN STORY

A PROGRAM OF THE MAIN STREET CENTER We’ve covered a lot of topics in the WYOS group – hints and allegations designed to spur memories of life as it was back in the day so the writers could include anecdotes and events their readers might be interested in learning. The first thing most people say... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, March 6, 2019

TODAY'S LIMERICK

I’ve heard there’s a season called “Spring” Melts the snow, brings the sun on the wing. Here’s hoping it’s true, Because I’m feeling blue Thanks to dark days and cold everything. Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, March 5, 2019

DOC SAYS HE DIDN'T HAVE TO BUY A DRINK ALL NIGHT...

Because of a joke I'd told him in the delivery room. It was the six-weeks checkup after my 6th and last blessed event. The checkup went great, and he informed me he’d also removed my appendix while he performed the tubal ligation following the delivery of my baby boy. A couple months earlier,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, March 4, 2019

PROMISE KEPT

There’s a lot of political blather around Women’s Issues 2019. Seems like equal opportunity and independence has been under fire for women all my life. (In fact, it has been.) Early on in the 20th Century, women like Margaret Sanger were jailed for protesting against the status quo, against the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, March 3, 2019

SQUIRREL' S YEAR

After leaves fall, a silver maple becomes a pen and ink etching against the winter sky, a reminder of endlessly alternating days, nights, seasons. In some winter scenes the etching is edited by snow, the lines softened somewhat. Or if seen from a moderate distance, fog erases all but a soft shadow... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, March 2, 2019

A SHORT STORY FROM 2013 BY PLH

Tiger Heart All her life she’d been burning bright, her tiger heart caged by convention and expectation. And of course by the very laws of the land. Nan was brought up knowing a lady does thus and so. She never forgets her role, her place. A man and his wife are one; that one is he. He controls her... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, March 1, 2019

CREATIVE WRITING 101, ETC.

Don't know if it's a residual darktide brought on by too much TV news, the "Ain't it awful?" slant that comes from following the hearings on ESPN, the weather itself, or just being too much trapped inside by an eighth of an inch of black ice - but all the stuff that comes to mind for posting here is... Sign in to see full entry.

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