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Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Who's Your Daddy?

Politics is a funny animal, a creature made up of wishful thinking, dark suspicions and a dash of charisma. Some think it can be saddled and broke like an old West mustang, and then guided by sure hands into a land of sunny days and circle dances. Others think it is perverse, dangerous, a seductive... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, February 11, 2013

From my sister's email

Stress Management A young lady confidently walked around the room explaining stress management to an audience with a raised glass of water. Everyone knew she was going to ask the ultimate question, 'half empty or half full?'... She fooled them all.... "How heavy is this glass of water?" she inquired... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, February 10, 2013

Groggy soggy Sunday

soggy groggy not a fun day, need some coffee and a bun day baby kaitlin's real first steps day but she's just too far away to play it's another mid month dark of moon I won't wake up till long past noon. Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, February 9, 2013

Bird Feeder in February

Wrens and sparrows and starlings, oh, my! But if I should open my door, they all fly. That I'm the one who supplies them with food doesn't matter, they're off. It's the rule of the brood. The little black sunflower seeds they like best they gulp 'em right down and spit out the rest. So at times I... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, February 8, 2013

Cop, Killer...

The first picture I saw of this guy, in camo with a big grin, looked nothing like the face of a guy who'd kill cops. He looked like a first responder himself, maybe a service member who'd come through the deployment in one piece, a nice guy. Later photos were "enhanced" the contrast deepened to... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, February 7, 2013

Ikea Syndrome

There was a feature on NPR yesterday about the Ikea Syndrome. I'd never heard of it, but I've been a carrier and a "sufferer" of this dread condition since before Ikea became a household name and millions of people worldwide were introduced to Lingenberry jam. Those of us on Blogit are quite... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Serendipity and the Suzuki Method

Sunday was my volunteer shift at the Carnegie's used bookshop at the library. Its decor includes a mural of Andrew J. himself, since our building was originally funded by that benefactor (1906). We volunteers are members of the E-town Library Friends (ELFs). My "salary" for working two hours on a... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, February 5, 2013

A cupcake birthday...

For a month now I've been thinking of celebrating on Feb. 6th with a cupcake and one candle, or perhaps cooking up a pot of good old southern style beans and ham and baking some cornbread and inviting my boys over for supper. The 6th is their dad's birthday, he'd have been seventy-five. He passed... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, February 4, 2013

Storymatic – six trillion stories…

It’s a game. It’s a writing prompt. It’s about $39.95 at Writer’s Market. Comes in a plain brown wrapper… no, wait, that’s a whole ‘nother game. There are cards, gold for characters, copper for plot. You pick two gold cards, and merge them into one character. In my first attempt I drew “Security... Sign in to see full entry.

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Suspense Thriller Writers - Lee Child and Wm. F. Buckley

I've been reading my way through commercials lately while my soap or some other show's on the air. You get in quite a few pages these days because the commercials are so frequent and so l-o-n-g. I read an older one by William F. Buckley, a political thriller titled "Brothers No More," set in the... Sign in to see full entry.

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