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

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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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Tuesday, October 30, 2012

The usual blather is lost to me this morning

My mind is on the storm, the Frankenstorm that's tearing up the east coast, moving north. Former Blogiteer known as Whinge, an Irish girl transplanted to New Jersey with her hubby and two young daughters -- now a Facebook friend - is right there in the center of the storm. Her older taughter had a... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, October 29, 2012

DSM TCH made me think about the debate question I'd rather forget:

Mr. Romney's declaration that President Obama has dodged questions about what happened in Benghazi. What did he know, when did he know it? The GOP candidate shakes his fist and threatens war... a wannabe leader with no sense of history, no interest in the 47% who would be cannon fodder. He wants to... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, October 28, 2012

Since Halloween is almost here, a teeny tiny story...

Discarding Merlin I carpooled with Merry Anne while my piece of crap Subaru was in the shop for an overhaul, and the trip was, to put it politely, interesting. She asked me to take the back seat, because the front passenger spot was reserved for Merlin. So I climbed in the back, feeling like Ms.... Sign in to see full entry.

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