Life in the fast lane--where's the on ramp?

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Monday, November 12, 2012

Morning Report: bits and pieces

It's cold. 82 degrees Saturday, 32 right now with wind chill down to 22. Need a toe cosy. People still wonder what Petraeus was up to, and now the Girlfriend Biographer's sending "back off, bitch" notes to another girl. I smell a movie in the works. Crockpotted a batch of ham hocks and beans - best... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, November 9, 2012

I ran into a block yesterday...

Same block I've been working around for... well... ever. What about the old man? I sent my little sis an email, asking if she had info about the ship he served on in WWII - and she sent it, which further muddied the waters. Then this a.m. before sunup she sends this email with a web link to get his... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, November 8, 2012

Feedback and Characterization...

I spent some young years thinking my father was a useless a$$hole, wishing I could find him and kick him in the shins. I wanted an explanation - how could he just disappear and never even wonder whether his kids had a roof over their head or food on the table? How can a man call himself a father who... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, November 6, 2012

It's election day. Chips are falling.

I can't even talk about it. Just keeping my fingers crossed we'll vote in candidates who like women and will continue to foster equality for both genders. ABOUT SUPERSTORM SANDY -- According to a FB post from our friend Whinge - the power's back on in her New Jersey neighborhood, she no longer needs... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, November 5, 2012

An unauthorized biography

Yesterday when I got to the library for my volunteer shift in the used books and coffee shop, a donated book lay on a pile of others at the desk. "Frank Sinatra: An Unauthorized Biography." Well, I flipped through it, found a bookmark about 80 pages in from a book shop in northern Illinois. I left... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, November 4, 2012

One of those dreams...

It was a high tech company, the boss had left us a note and left official documents with his lawyers: we were the geeks who created the be-all and end-all software, we had developed the mechanical bits. He had wangled and persuaded the financial deals that suddenly turned our two-bit operation into... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, November 3, 2012

Poems & NaNo & Blogit, oh, my!

Yesterday I wanted to get right on my NaNoWriMo thing, but I'm so used to starting my day on Blogit... So I read a few faves and clicked on a couple others, and posted my Margarita poem before heading to Word and putting the next few hundred words of the new novel on the page. Day 1: an intro to the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, November 2, 2012

NaNoWriMo total for Day 1: 2805 words - an old poem follows

MARGARITA Unseen, from a porch in a dusty village in Mexico someone strums a single guitar. Calling notes mingle with the scent of rain-dappled dust and the heady sweetness of tropical flowers blooming at moonrise. The caressing breeze stirs against my bare arms, stirs my own liquid response. He... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, November 1, 2012

A Piece of the Sky

Blackbird loves shiny things. She thinks they are pieces of the sky, and so picks up dimes and spoons and tinfoil bits. It's her intent to give them back to the sky, but she has not yet learned to fly high enough, so she keeps them safely in her nest. Blackbird sees a woman walking on the bottom,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, October 31, 2012

According to the political ads

every candidate is a scoundrel or worse, there are bodies buried in every basement and dastardly deeds, outright criminal and dangerous things going on. Every one will steal the pennies off a dead man's eyes and spend it on bridges to nowhere because they've got a cousin in the construction... Sign in to see full entry.

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