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What’s with that ending?
What’s a book you think deserves a sequel? Some authors do a really good job of telling a story in one book. They wrap everything up with a neat little bow and you’re left satisified, or mostly satisfied with the ending. Like Stephen King. Unless he’s writing something that is going to be a series,… →
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You did good, kid!
5Ws Wednesday Why did we trust him? Remember my post about how writing is hard and I’m not as good at it as I thought? (Good and easy…except it’s not.) Well, as I explained in that post (or I think I did), I did not give up on my writing class even though I was… →
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Lawyer Ads
Talk About it Tuesday There’s an attorney in North Carolina that has ads on tv quite frequently. In the ad, he stands on top of an 18-wheeler with his legs spread and his arms crossed. His slogan is: “I’m on top of it.” Because apparently he specializes in personal injury cases that are the result… →
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Thank You For Being a Friend
“Something Good” Sunday Yesterday, Josh and I spent probably half of our day outside in the heat. We trimmed the hedge on the side of our house in the early afternoon, i.e. the hottest part of the day. The heat index was 106, but Josh was determined to trim that hedge, so he did. I… →
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Despite It All, I’m Still Proud
Josh and I are home from the local baseball game we attended tonight. Our minor league team is away this week, so USA baseball had their college players host an exhibition game. It was Stars vs. Stripes with a fantastic fireworks show at the end. The city had a 4th of July concert in the… →
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She’s a Psycho!
Flashback Friday If you were a teenager in the 90s like I was, there was a very important decision you had to make. Well, if you were a girl. I don’t know that guys cared about this. You had to decide if you were team Backstreet Boys: Or team N’Sync: I was team Backstreet Boys.… →
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Work and a Dog Pool
5Ws Wednesday I’ve got nothing today. The prompt today is a dud (so is the one tomorrow) and I have no alternative ideas. So, in the absence of something intellectual to discuss, I’ll simply pose the question, “What’s going on today?” I worked for the first part of the day. When I came back from… →
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Local News Junkie
So many things about being a grown-up are reminiscent of when I was a kid, except many of these things are opposites. When I was a kid and all the way up through high school, my parents were religious viewers of the evening news. I hated watching the news! But there they were, every evening… →
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A Mushroom, A Watermelon, and Bob Odenkirk
“Something Good” Sunday There’s been plenty of good things this week. Though I have been feeling a little subdued and melancholy for some reason, it’s still been a good week. My new tattoos have gotten to the flaky, peeling, itchy phase, which is its own kind of sucky, but at least they don’t hurt so… →
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Good and easy…except it’s not.
I’m going to be a little self-deprecating with my response to this today. And that is because I’m in my feelings about this writing class I’m taking. When I was a kid, I believed that writing was easy and I was a good writer. Oh how that is ridiculous now! I received feedback on my… →