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Tuesday, December 8, 2015

Ho Ho Ho and Why Not Start Up a Bookstore for Writers

I thought it was some kind of character flaw. I was just a freak. The problem? I hate the Christmas season. I grit my teeth at Halloween when the black Friday crap starts hitting the scene, and want to run away and live in the woods until January 1st. The pressure's on to buy "THE" toy, electronic... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, December 7, 2015

Art & Literature

It was clouding up when I left for the Library at 1:55 yesterday afternoon. The parking lot was jammed. Must be a good day for the library, I thought. But there weren't so many in the stacks or at the check-out desk, and my little Carnegie's coffee shop/bookstore was absolutely deserted. I wasn't in... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, December 5, 2015

Love Threads

My crochet habit had become a bit obsessive, so about a month ago I decided to stay the heck out of Michael’s arts & crafts store and to avoid Walmart’s sewing and home crafts department. One weekend I boxed up my crochet hooks, yarn remnants, and put them on a shelf, donated most of the beanies,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, December 4, 2015

Great News!

Just got a phone call from my baby girl in Florida. She recently went through a complete series of diagnostic tests looking for breast and uterine cancer. The tests are all negative, she's clear! I am one happy mom! Sign in to see full entry.

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It's better today

My apologies for the too-much-info post of yesterday. We like to think those we care about are enjoying life without serious woes, even though experience tells us there's a bit of crap -- sometimes too much to handle -- in everyone's world. Slogging through almost always gets us to the bright side,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, December 3, 2015

Between a Rock and a Hard Place

I am overwhelmed. Stuck. I don’t want to think about what’s going on in our family, how the ties have come unbound, how denial has been refuted, how the cherished lost one has shown himself to be a vengeful manipulative liar. Yes, this statement seems overly dramatic, especially since it’s true.... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, December 2, 2015

Half full? Half empty?

Whatever it was, it was bright punkin color, a half-moon about the size of a giant dinner plate, caught in the empty branches of the walnut tree. The weird thing about it, the reason I had to look twice, was that it seemed to be at the wrong angle. Instead of being vertical, with maybe a slight... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, December 1, 2015

I don't quite believe in coincidence these days

I do believe it's all connected, that we're all made out of ancient stardust, that there are threads that link each and all of us to all and each. Or maybe it only seems as though what I'm thinking about comes first and related data on that topic appears soon after. Someone casually says something... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, November 30, 2015

Let's make this one short and sweet. Well, short anyway.

Some people are so emotionally sunburned that the slightest joking comment becomes a big intentional slur, a comment meant to be taken ironically is swallowed whole and turns bitter in the hearer's mind. Well-intentioned words meant to convey the idea that you've been there, done that are taken... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, November 28, 2015

When Pigs Fly

At five o’clock this morning I’m standing at the kitchen counter measuring coffee into the basket, not exactly listening to NPR and the BBC’s news hour. The urbane newsman is chatting with a scientist about genetic research, how they have the ability to move a molecule into a cell and alter a... Sign in to see full entry.

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