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Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Three weddings: one marriage (excerpt)

“So, Mom, I was wondering something about my dad. I remember why you said you divorced him and all, but I never did hear about your wedding.” “Oh, really? I never told you that? Well,” she giggled and sat up eagerly. “We actually got married three times.” “Three times?” “Yep. We went out for quite a... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, December 25, 2012

Toys...

Last year at Christmas time I fell in love with a toy called the Glow Dome. It is a Crayola product - and who doesn't love crayons? Even now I enjoy seeing the big box of 64, all the points sharp and ready to go, and a big blank sheet of newsprint. So I bought it, thinking of my great granddaughter.... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, December 23, 2012

CHRISTMAS MENU

Gray days—skeleton trees in silhouette dark mornings and evenings streetlights, headlights to work and back sleet, snow, slush, ice, slippery footing life force exhaled in clouds of original smoke cold feet, wet mittens, snuffy noses. There’s a profound need for hot chocolate popcorn to munch in... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, December 22, 2012

Paved with Good Intentions - Part 2

As it happened the invitation wasn’t to a movie. Ed said he was meeting a couple of his buddies and their girlfriends at the Fireman’s dance in Richland, and asked if she liked to dance. She thought being with a group might be fun. As they drove he offered Margaret a drink from his pocket flask. She... Sign in to see full entry.

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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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