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The Ultimately Achievable List of Resolutions for a New Year!
As New Year’s Day opens up before me, I find my skin is itching with an insatiable need to reorganize my whole house before the calendar says January 2. Lose 50 lbs in…
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Always Christmas…
I wrote this last year a few days before Thanksgiving, but I could have easily just written it today. The sentiments remain, even if the date has changed. Merry Happy Holidays to you…
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A rejected chapter from my book Thirty
Here’s something random to read for a cold winter day. I wrote a book called Thirty. It’s about Ali, a writer who has become disenchanted with her life. Her 30th birthday “party” is…
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Time is elastic and exhausting…
This past November I spent my time on the personal quest of writing 50,000 words in 30 days. Otherwise known as National Novel Writing Month. This was my ninth year. This November I…
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Writers Write…
I have found that if you are going to call yourself a writer, you need to do the work. No matter what. No matter the circumstances, no matter your schedule, no matter how…
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The Witching Hour…
I haven’t slept through the night in years. It feels that way, although it’s not the complete truth. There are times I sleep through. But lately I’ve woken up in the middle of…
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Falling Quotes…
The temperatures have dropped in my little corner of the world. The leaves laugh at me as I try to gather them for compost. Those still left in the trees, that is. They…
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A consideration of knots…
So I’m a writer. It has taken me a long time to admit that out loud. I held it close, like a secret identity for so long. For years I kept my writing…
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It’s all Greek to me…
I’ve been doing an online course on the Ancient Greeks, my wheel house. I find when I start to learn ‘new things’, I don’t stray far from my field of interest. My degree…
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