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Thursday, November 15, 2012

Word of the Day: Nunya

Years ago, two years after my baby girl left for college, the crap hit the fan for her, and she dropped out of her 4-year college. All kinds of distractions had come together - her roommate's boyfriend took to spending almost every night in their shared dorm room, which made her uncomfortable. So... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, November 14, 2012

If at first you don't succeed...

FOGEDABOUDIT... A couple hours ago I typed a bit about the Petraeus yawn. Deleted it 2 minutes ago because even I would not want to comment on the umpteenth stupid scandal to dandle and flip on the media for no good reason. Doing family history in connection with my mother's bio - found jots and... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, November 13, 2012

The News Hole

When I was a part-time beat reporter / layout and design jock at the Weekly American (not the paper's real name) I made $60 a week and nine gallons of gas. I was also a full-time student that year, a J-Student, with assignments for "god" who was head of the print section of the Mass Communications... Sign in to see full entry.

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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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