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A Risk to Christmas Spirit
Nothing puts as big a crimp in Christmas spirit like shopping. Oh the stores are decorated and the music is cheerful and happy, but the rest of the experience makes being holly and jolly nearly impossible. Oh, it's more than just the crowds, the prices, the hustle and bustle, it's certain people, certain archtypes we all run into during the ( Read more... ) -
A Not So Christmassy Day
Sorry, no warm heartfelt memories of Christmases today and this blog may end up being TMI for some folks (too much information) but damn it, it's what's in my head.
The main design flaw in God's creation is the lack of a reproductive off switch. Think how useful this would be. I mean this beyond the idea of unplanned or unwise pregnancies -admit it ( Read more... ) -
The Year With(out) a Santa Claus
I was thirteen or fourteen that year. It was the year I was baptized and the year my family lived in a small ranch style house in a neighborhood most people wouldn’t venture into during the day, let alone at night. Our street sat right on the dividing line between the territories of two rival gangs. No, this wasn’t New York, L.A., or even Chicago. ( Read more... ) -
A Little Tough Love
I really hate when someone begins a sentence with the words “I don’t mean to make anyone angry…” Yes you do. You just don’t want them angry at you. So I won’t begin this little bit of tough love by apologizing for it in advance.
This may seem an odd thing to be irritated by, and I wasn’t at first, but the more I thought about it the more ( Read more... ) -
It’s Christmas decorating time again.
I sat at the local diner on Saturday watching all the cars drive by with their Christmas trees tied to the roof of their cars. SUVs, pick up trucks and even a few compacts with the tree sticking out in the front and back whizzed passed carrying home that little piece of holiday tradition. I began to feel absolutely nostalgic for all of about 30 ( Read more... ) -
Trying to Catch a Plot Bunny
Continuing my guest blog on Novelspot's Behind the Scenes II.
Today's entry is called Trying to Catch a Plot Bunny
http://www.novelspot.net/node/2041
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NovelSpot
I'm featured this week on NovelSpot's Behind the Scenes blog, so I'm taking a bit of a shortcut to blogging.
Today's Topic: If You Tell Them, They'll Lock You Up.
Link: http://www.novelspot.net/node/2039
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The Land of Plenty?
I was reading the blog of a friend today, Anny Cook, and found my hands shaking as I did. Anny wrote about the way so few in our world have so much and so many have so little. And in the face of Thanksgiving, she wrote how it was a shame that so much was wasted while so many went without. It was a bit painful to read. Not because it held anything I ( Read more... ) -
Twisting Secret Santas
I love this time of year. Really, I do. Starting in October there is a feeling of excitement that begins to build. The bright colors, the smiling pumpkins, the ghosts and ghouls; all make me smile. Turkeys and scarecrows with harvest corn and colorful gourds take their turn in November. Then in December the twinkle lights and the red ribbons, the ( Read more... )
